pizza
Meatball Sandwich Review: Frank & Joe’s
It was thrilling to learn how to drive again at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange, New Jersey, this past June. But almost equally exciting was finding out that my instructor Maria’s father ran a pizza place in Paterson. I promised myself that when I was finally an approved driver, with hand controls […]
Bye Bye Benny
In March of 1994, my buddy Joe and I signed a lease on a Hoboken apartment. We went to a pizza place called Benny Tudino’s to celebrate, sitting at a booth in the back room. That became our regular table, and every Sunday night that both of us were in town, we’d be there splitting […]
Benny Tudino’s 45th Anniversary
Since 1994, on more Sundays than not, I’ve found myself at Benny Tudino’s. For the first nine years or so, it was with my buddy Joe, and we’d split a medium sausage pie. These days I get a slice. (They’re big.) It was a pleasure to write this article for the Hoboken Reporter, timed to […]
The Best Pizza in Town
Michelle was on the phone when I entered. I didn’t know her name yet, only that she was a small, older, slightly disheveled woman with a kind face. She acknowledged my presence, and I tried to indicate that there was no rush. Still, she interrupted her call to ask me, “One slice?” and when I […]
Jack Silbert, curator