• OMG! Totonno’s To FINALLY Reopen


    by on Feb 5th, 2010

    After many a fakeout, Totonno’s is finally reopening on February 10th, according to Slice pizza blog. Totonno’s, which many pizza aficionados agree is one of the best slices in New York (and thus, the world) closed down after a fire devastated the storefront back in March. In September, Slice reported that the famed Coney Island pizzeria would begin welcoming customers again in late-September or early-October. Then it became November. Then December. You can guess where we’re going with this.

    Slice wrote the following quick post on their site yesterday:

    Our man Ed Levine just got off the phone with Totonno’s owner Lawrence Ciminieri, who tells us that Totonno’s is reopening next Wednesday, February 10 at noon.

    Ciminieri says he himself will be making the pies that day.

    We’re confident that this is the real deal this time. Ciminieri says he’s got all the permits now and the pizzeria is ready to go.

    We hope it’s for real this time. I had planned to go for my first visit right before it burned down, and all this waiting has got me seriously hungry!

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    • Local Broker

      let me know i also want to go i will drive

    • danmarinophoto

      welcome back! who will be first in line – these photos should get your tastebuds going for sure! It is my Totonno's photo shoot now a year ago already – will be nice to finally showcase them to Cookie being that the fire occurred only 3 weeks later

      http://danmarinophoto.com/pizza

    • http://www.nedberke.com Ned Berke

      Great photos (and welcome to the site)! Glad to see the place was well documented before the unfortunate fire. I wonder how it has changed now…

    • jo

      that's awesome! i've been wanting to try this place out for almost a year now. now i'll finally get my chance!

    • http://www.njluxurymotors.com Arthur Borko

      Ned, If it's going slow at work on Wednesday I'll try to take an hour off and come get you and we'll go. Not sure were the hell I'll park but we'll figure it out.

    • http://www.nedberke.com Ned Berke

      What, and leave Local in the dust? No way. Perhaps we should organize a small outing for the weekend after Valentines Day?

    • http://www.njluxurymotors.com Arthur Borko

      I have room in the car, if you have his number we can call him. BrooklynQ
      wants to go too. The more the better cause he doesn't sell slices.

    • Local Broker

      i cant do weekends i would go mid week. i have a car and dont mind driving. ned has my number.

    • http://www.njluxurymotors.com Arthur Borko

      Yea, the 10th is Wednesday. I was figuring if it was slow at work (I work
      Car Service) I'd take an hour off to go. Sometime between 12 and 3pm. If
      you're up for it then Ned can send out that Local Broker signal and you can
      meet us there. Or i can pick you up depending where you are, so we don't
      have to look for two parking spots. If it's too busy at work then I can go
      after work at 7pm.

    • nolastname

      thank you doe the excellent photos.

    • Ray Johnson

      Thanks, everyone for offering to take us to for some pizza. I just wanted to warn you that Ned and I eat a lot!
      Also, is it my bad memory or doesn't Totonno's usually open only for dinner and not lunch?

    • Local Broker

      actually i think ned owes me a slice of pizza

    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001 Lisanne!

      I think you'll have to stand in line. Ned owes a lot of people a slice of pizza.

    • Local Broker

      lol. i dont mind standing in line i will just be the first person in it.

    • http://www.nedberke.com Ned Berke

      Whoa whoa whoa… hold up. I do owe Local pizza. Lisanne, are you claiming some pizza debt? Personally, I think everyone ought to buy me a whole lot of pizza after all this safeguarding the truth and preserving the history I do. I mean, I'm the fourth estate of democracy. I'm owed something, right?

    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001 Lisanne!

      Well, we're all sort of a team here. You're the manager/star hitter. We're the ones that keep the ball juiced. In the end we all get something out of it. So we should each, individually, buy ourselves a pizza as a reward.

      (I do like the edit function-my edited version is so much more ingenious)

    • PayPaul

      Pizza Debt?

      So now I know why you call it Sheepshead Bites'.

    • Local Broker

      are we going to get pizza or what.

    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001 Lisanne!

      Should have been there when it opened at 12. Niow its a real mess out there.,

    • http://www.njluxurymotors.com Arthur Borko

      I'm hiding at home, don't even have the car. Storm kinda killed all chances.

    • Local Broker

      i was joking. i like driving in this weather its fun.

    • http://www.njluxurymotors.com Arthur Borko

      If you're volunteering to come pick us up then I'm game. I just need some
      advance notice so I can shower.

    • danmarinophoto

      thanks for the comments on the photos – they are now appearing as a special project on my website (http://danmarinophoto.com) and i just delivered 2 images to Totonno's the weekend they re-opened.

      good stuff!