After Sam Sifton of the NY Times wrote that Motorino “serves the city’s best pizza” on February 17, I had to give it a try to see for myself. I’d been to a couple of the other trendy New York pizza places – Company, Keste and, of course, Franny’s, which is just down the block from our Brooklyn apartment – so while I’m by no means a pizza expert, I at least had some basis for comparison.
New York / August 3, 2009 / dinner Winederlust Rating (details below): 7.75 out of 10 / Winederlust Worthy: Yes Kesté opened on busy Bleecker St. in the West Village about
” I just don’t see big wine allowing labels on wine reading something like this: This wine was dealcoholized by reverse osmosis and smoothed out with micro-oxygenation. Ingredients: Water, alcohol, grapes, chestnut tannin, oak extract, oak dust, genetically modified yeast, urea, enzymes, grape juice, tartaric acid, bentonite and Velcorin.”
-Alice Feiring, The Battle for Wine and Love or How I saved the World from Parkerization
