A pie of traditional Margherita pizza is arranged on a table at Zero Otto Nove (089), an Italian pizzeria located at 2357 Arthur Avenue in the Bronx neighborhood of New York, on Jan. 4, 2008.
A Slice Just Isn’t A Slice At Bronx’s 089 .. It’s The Best Slice in The U.S.
Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — Zero Otto Nove (089) is the area code for Salerno, Italy, the seaside town from which chef- restaurateur Roberto Paciullo, 53, emigrated in 1970. It’s also the name of the best pizzeria to open in the U.S. in years, located in the Belmont section of the Bronx, where Dion and the Belmonts originated and Chazz Palminteri wrote the play `A Bronx Tale.”
The usual trajectory for Italian immigrant cooks has been to open a pizzeria first and then, after making a success of it, to open a real ristorante.
Paciullo reversed that process: Ten years ago he opened Roberto’s, one of the most popular Italian restaurants in New York, drawing a crowd that includes everyone from Joe Torre and Marisa Tomei to Mike Wallace, Uma Thurman and Jerry Springer. Getting a table at Roberto’s is far from easy, especially since they don’t always pick up the phone. Two-hour waits for a table are common.
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