...came across this........for all the Keithaholics.......


CITY LIVING - 06.10.08
Playing With Fire

Artichoke Basille's Pizza on 14th St. has been getting lots of virtual blog ink spilled in its name on the Interweb recently, and there's a damn good reason for it: damn good pizza. The East Village newcomer is a little hole-in-the-wall spot across from Stuyvesant Town that serves up absolutely amazing square Sicilian slices, round "Neapolitan" cuts and an artichoke-spinach pie fortified with creamy butter and red wine. "This isn't just pizza," raves GQ's Alan Richman. If the ringing endorsements, long-ass lines and five-dollar 32-ounce Styrofoam cups of ice-cold Budweiser drafts (starting in July) don't have you sold on the joint, perhaps visits from Dave "Momofuku" Chang and Keith Richards will. "I gave him a piece of spinach-and-artichoke to sample," Artichoke co-owner Francis Garcia says of the Rolling Stoner's visit. "He started doing something with his hands. Playing air guitar and jumping around; it was cool."

Their pizza makes you want to play air guitar?
Must be some damn good pizza!

Keith probably just burned his fingers....

.....or maybe the chords to Monkey Man....

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Keith probably just burned his fingers....

haha - that sounds most plausible.

I thought Keith does not eat cheese?

Yeah, that was my thought too! Liar! He's a closet cheese lover! Though, I do know someone who asks for his pizza without cheese! That's like non-pizza.

Glad for this news, though, I'm going (back) to NYC for a visit in July and plan to eat LOTS of pizza! You just can't get NYC pizza anywhere else, even if they say it's "New York Style."

Maybe Keith will be having a pizza craving while I'm there...Now I can fantasize about something for the next few weeks!

>> Liar! <<

... right, it couldn't be that the restaurant-owner is making it up or just wrong about whom he's been serving

The ONE and ONLY Ray's Pizza.

>>... right, it couldn't be that the restaurant-owner is making it up or just wrong about whom he's been serving<<

Right, my next thought, exactly. Heck, if I owned a pizza place in NYC, the first thing I would do is make up a story about Keith having pizza there. It was probably just an Elvis impersonator, but the guy just so much wanted to believe that it was Keith...

...the spinach + artichoke pizza he sampled doen't have cheeze.

One of those "a-ha" moments. Gotta be room for a little fun.

That combination sounds sickening to me, but heck, I like brussel sprouts (the definitive affair, of course).

Well damn! Wish I'd seen this last week. Still, was nice to wander the Chelsea Market and grab a nosh there. Noted for Next Time.

Patsy's Pizza---1st ave @ 117th st. Brick oven pizza, thin thin crust.

Pizza Box on Bleeker serves a good old typical NY slice.

Thanks for the suggestions! 117th st., huh? I used to love Stromboli's when at CBGB -- I wonder if it still tastes as good as I remember.

Back in the Bronx when pizza was 25 cents....(There was a pizza war between a new and established place)...But I'm dating myself (?!) and going off topic.

I like mine cheesy. Wouldn't give it up even in total devotion to Keith.

Keith burning his fingers? Legend has it he puts cigarettes out on them!

The best slice in The Bronx is Full Moon Pizza....187th and Arthur ave.

My intuition is...Keith never went to that pizza place....I have a feeling the guy is name dropping for publicity?

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The best slice in The Bronx is Full Moon Pizza....187th and Arthur ave.

My intuition is...Keith never went to that pizza place....I have a feeling the guy is name dropping for publicity?

........oh yee of so little faith Bingo......no apologies necessary......[nymag.com]

The one and only rays...6th ave and 11th...correct?

The comments of customers are worth a read - haha

"This is about Pizza not the Noble Pizza Prize!!!"

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The one and only rays...6th ave and 11th...correct?

No. But in my opinion, it's the best one, or at least it was when I last ate there about 10 years ago.

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Well, all I know about Keith and pizza is that whenever the Stones/Keith are in Boston, Peter Wolf drops by with a few pizzas from Santarpio's in East Boston.

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The one and only rays...6th ave and 11th...correct?

No. But in my opinion, it's the best one, or at least it was when I last ate there about 10 years ago.

[en.wikipedia.org]

best pizza in NYC..thin crust that is..... is Arturo's at 106 Houston Street down town.

What also happened is Keith showed up at Artichoke pizza to pick up an entire takeout pizza. It blew their minds to see him.

Order was phoned in, Keith came to get it. I believe he has a place in Greenwich Village. Of course his real home is rural Connecticut

"You just can't get NYC pizza anywhere else, even if they say it's "New York Style.""


I'll extend that to North Jersey but you are right. Once you leave the New York area good pizza and good Italian food in general are hard to get.

Forget all that deep dish garbage and anything with pineapples on it.

"Lyin' awake in a cold, cold sweat. Am I overdrawn, am I going in debt?
It gets worse, the older that you get. No escape from the state of confusion I'm in.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2013-05-11 20:29 by FrankM.

Do these joints use real cheese or some lactose-filled solid crap that's about 10 times cheaper?
Easy to tell : once baked the crap is yellow/gold on your pizza. Yuck!

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2013-05-11 20:34 by dcba.

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The ONE and ONLY Ray's Pizza.

Famous Ray's, Original Ray's, or Orignal Famous Ray's?

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Do these joints use real cheese or some lactose-filled solid crap that's about 10 times cheaper?
Easy to tell : once baked the crap is yellow/gold on your pizza. Yuck!

[www.squidoo.com]

That fake cheese is usually limited to frozen pizza and pizza rolls at the supermarket. A New York pizzeria using that stuff would be as unlikely as a high price southern restaurant using instant grits.

"Lyin' awake in a cold, cold sweat. Am I overdrawn, am I going in debt?
It gets worse, the older that you get. No escape from the state of confusion I'm in.

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The ONE and ONLY Ray's Pizza.

The best of the best!