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Which would be (originally) Independent Pizza Co. in Drumcondra, but (even more so) its younger sister-facility, Gotham Café in South Anne Street. The excellent Adam Kuban of Slice, the pizza lovers’ website par excellence, has just kindly posted a note I dropped him about the place.
Gotham Café is one of our favorite places to eat in Dublin. We’ve been going there ever since it opened, and have (by now) probably eaten enough pizzas there to completely pave South Anne Street. It’s also where the Star Trek novel Dark Mirror was conceived in 1991 (as the book’s acknowledgement page notes) secondary to a long and wide-ranging discussion with Peter about Starfleet uniform styles, over a large pizza with extra Mozzarella, extra sauce, pepperoni, and hot chiles, and a medium with extra Mozzarella, double garlic, hot chilies, and onions, along with two bottles of Orvieto Secco and a whole lot of Ballygowan water. (The framed cover commemorating this slightly crazed event still hangs, I believe, in the owners’ office.)
Last time we were passing through, we took some pics of what we were eating and sent them along to Adam. With luck, many more transiting pizza lovers will now grace David and Jackie’s front doors and sample what we firmly believe is the best New York-style pizza on the island of Ireland.
(Gotham still has no website running. I wish they’d get busy with that. In the meantime, let the offering at Slice suffice.)
(However, I take no responsibility for the article’s slugline. “When Irish Pies Are Smiling”? Ow ow ow ow ow ow.)
(ETA: Someone's posted a Flickr image of the Gotham menu page that features the "specialty" pizzas.)
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Date: 2008-08-11 07:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-11 07:59 pm (UTC)http://www.flickr.com/photos/frankieh/1352040501/
(They redid the frontage in 2005/6, if I remember.)
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Date: 2008-08-11 07:16 pm (UTC)I can now see a place like this at the root of a novel containing such things. Many thanks to them for hosting those beginnings!
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Date: 2008-08-11 07:23 pm (UTC)*resists, with tremendous difficulty, making a bad Batman joke*
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Date: 2008-08-11 08:02 pm (UTC)Dublin, though, is littered with stuff that isn't as good as it could or should be. Gotham is a bright light in this murky scene.
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Date: 2008-08-11 08:17 pm (UTC)Now where did I put those Rolaids?
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Date: 2008-08-11 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-11 09:03 pm (UTC)Being the lazy soul that I am, I generally use the fresh refrigerated dough from my local Publix grocery. It's actually a decent dough and makes a good pie.
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Date: 2008-08-11 10:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-11 08:33 pm (UTC)He's getting married to said date in a couple of weeks. In the Red Bank in Skerries, speaking of good eating places.
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Date: 2008-08-11 08:39 pm (UTC)Give your brother our best, in any case!! Tell him we said to have the best day ever. (And yes, I know the Red Bank. We don't get up that way often enough, unfortunately.)
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Date: 2008-08-11 09:05 pm (UTC)Will definitely pass on your good wishes to Bro-ski (who will probably make very light of it, but be extremely pleased internally).
And yeah, Skerries is a bit far from Wicklow.