Our inaugural podcast took us to the first Manhattan branch of Queens stalwart Singas Famous Pizza. We sat down with owner Manish Chadha to discuss the concept behind baking nothing but 10-inch pies, how potatoes and cauliflower make it onto the restaurant’s menu, and why so many customers mistakenly believe that Singas is an Indian business. Along the way, we were lucky enough to sample six different pizzas, including the superb jalapeno pepper pie. So download the podcast (right-click to save the file to disk) and browse through our Singas Pizza photoset on Flickr to see nearly a dozen images from our visit. If you’d rather just listen without saving the file (it’s about 24 minutes long), you can also just click the ‘play’ button below. Enjoy!
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Though New York pizza purists may scorn the chewy crust, the franchising, and that the flavors include "Hawaiian," "Greek," and "Bar-B-Cue Chicken," Singas Pizza, a 40-year old New York pizza chain with Greek origins in Elmhurst, Queens, offers a tasty product at wallet-friendly prices. Pizzas are cooked in shallow cast-iron pans, creating an oddly nostalgic Pizza Hut-like aroma, and depending on the Singas you visit, it's either take-out, sit-down, or table-service.
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I realize that many people solve the problem of not knowing whether a restaurant is open on Monday by calling ahead, but for some (stupid?) reason, I never let my fingers do the walking. As we found restaurant after restaurant on Woodside Ave. shuttered last evening, we felt a certain sympathy with the giant raccoon (my girlfriend insists it was a possum) we saw raiding the garbage, though not enough to keep us from hurrying past the hole in the fence into which it slipped. We were starving, frigid, and in no mood to tangle with giant rodents. (Side note – the biggest rats I’ve ever seen exist between 3rd and 4th Aves. in Brooklyn, on both Pacific and Bergen Sts. You’ve been warned.)
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