Totonno's
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Totonno's is a Coney Island
pizzeria established by Antonio "Totonno" Pero. He was an employee at the Lombardi's
pizzeria on Spring Street in New York's Little Italy that was established in 1905 when he began selling tomato pies cooked in a coal oven and wrapped in paper and tied with a string. In 1924, Totonno left Lombardi's to open his own pizzeria on Coney Island called Totonno's. It is owned by Louise Ciminieri and known for its lines out the door, longevity, delicious food, Pero can be seen in a photograph with Lombardi. whose employ he left in 1924, "shortly after the subway started running out to the hinterlands of Coney Island, and opened his own place there".
Totonno's pizza has been made the same way since 1924 "along with its Brooklyn pizza brethren Di Fara's, Grimaldi's and Franny's", and "is considered among the best in the country by people who have dedicated their lives to the subject". The original location was damaged by fire 2009, but the owner planned to rebuild.
Coney Island
Coney Island is a peninsula and beach on the Atlantic Ocean in southern Brooklyn, New York, United States. The site was formerly an outer barrier island, but became partially connected to the mainland by landfill....
pizzeria established by Antonio "Totonno" Pero. He was an employee at the Lombardi's
Lombardi's
Lombardi's claims to be the first pizzeria in the United States, founded in 1905 in Little Italy, Manhattan. The business started out as a grocery store at 53 Spring Street in 1897 opened by Gennaro Lombardi. In 1905 his employee Antonio Totonno Pero began selling tomato pies wrapped in paper and...
pizzeria on Spring Street in New York's Little Italy that was established in 1905 when he began selling tomato pies cooked in a coal oven and wrapped in paper and tied with a string. In 1924, Totonno left Lombardi's to open his own pizzeria on Coney Island called Totonno's. It is owned by Louise Ciminieri and known for its lines out the door, longevity, delicious food, Pero can be seen in a photograph with Lombardi. whose employ he left in 1924, "shortly after the subway started running out to the hinterlands of Coney Island, and opened his own place there".
Totonno's pizza has been made the same way since 1924 "along with its Brooklyn pizza brethren Di Fara's, Grimaldi's and Franny's", and "is considered among the best in the country by people who have dedicated their lives to the subject". The original location was damaged by fire 2009, but the owner planned to rebuild.