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The Specialists: Di Fara Pizza

26 points by Thevet 12y ago

DanBC 12y ago
That stove looks fucking disgusting. Is it just me? I get that it's not the pizza oven, but still.
- mattzito 12y ago
  That particular style of stove gets like that - we had one in my family's restaurant. You can scrub it all you want, and it only looks worse. It's meant to be functional and reliable, but not attractive.
dguaraglia 12y ago
Spam? I'm flagging this.
- Thevet 12y ago
  Nope, this is an installment in a series about the daily schedules of famous restaurants from Lucky Peach. A previous installment (about Franklin's BBQ in Austin) was on the front page a few days ago in fact: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9199862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9199862
- sfeng 12y ago
  Why do you interpret this as spam?
  - dguaraglia 12y ago
    I don't know. I click on the link and go to some fluff piece about a restaurant? Didn't look like the content was any more related to Hacker News than any of the articles in The Gothamist or The Bold Italic (don't get me wrong, I love good food as much as the next person, I just expect to get those articles from Facebook, not HN.)
    - dang 12y ago
      Not sure what you mean by "related to Hacker News", but the guidelines are clear: anything that gratifies intellectual curiosity is on topic. I don't think it's hard to see how an article about a master of the pizza craft might gratify intellectual curiosity.
dmcginty 12y ago
I've been there a couple times. The pizza is really good enough to deserve this sort of attention. The biggest warning I could give would be that the wait times are typically really long, the place is really cramped, and there are only three folding tables for seating. The wait time for a single pizza could easily be over 2 hours, and there isn't anything to do in the area while you wait. That being said, it's certainly worth it for one of the best pizzas I've ever had. Just make a day out of it.
- mdholloway 12y ago
  I had a boss who grew up in the neighborhood and held that Di Fara's was a touch overrated (if memory serves, he favored Totonno's or L&B). Still, incredible pizza to this midwestern boy. Yeah, definitely prepare to wait... and to assert your place in line.
  - archagon 12y ago
    DeMarco does tend to burn his pizzas sometimes, but they're really amazing and worth the wait, I think.

26 points by Thevet 12y ago

DanBC 12y ago

That stove looks fucking disgusting. Is it just me? I get that it's not the pizza oven, but still.

mattzito 12y ago
That particular style of stove gets like that - we had one in my family's restaurant. You can scrub it all you want, and it only looks worse. It's meant to be functional and reliable, but not attractive.

dguaraglia 12y ago

Spam? I'm flagging this.

Thevet 12y ago
Nope, this is an installment in a series about the daily schedules of famous restaurants from Lucky Peach. A previous installment (about Franklin's BBQ in Austin) was on the front page a few days ago in fact: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9199862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9199862
sfeng 12y ago
Why do you interpret this as spam?
- dguaraglia 12y ago
  I don't know. I click on the link and go to some fluff piece about a restaurant? Didn't look like the content was any more related to Hacker News than any of the articles in The Gothamist or The Bold Italic (don't get me wrong, I love good food as much as the next person, I just expect to get those articles from Facebook, not HN.)
  - dang 12y ago
    Not sure what you mean by "related to Hacker News", but the guidelines are clear: anything that gratifies intellectual curiosity is on topic. I don't think it's hard to see how an article about a master of the pizza craft might gratify intellectual curiosity.

dmcginty 12y ago

I've been there a couple times. The pizza is really good enough to deserve this sort of attention. The biggest warning I could give would be that the wait times are typically really long, the place is really cramped, and there are only three folding tables for seating. The wait time for a single pizza could easily be over 2 hours, and there isn't anything to do in the area while you wait. That being said, it's certainly worth it for one of the best pizzas I've ever had. Just make a day out of it.

mdholloway 12y ago
I had a boss who grew up in the neighborhood and held that Di Fara's was a touch overrated (if memory serves, he favored Totonno's or L&B). Still, incredible pizza to this midwestern boy. Yeah, definitely prepare to wait... and to assert your place in line.
- archagon 12y ago
  DeMarco does tend to burn his pizzas sometimes, but they're really amazing and worth the wait, I think.