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  • 5/18/2025
El Presidente | One Bite
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00:00all right pizza view time Manhattan we are at a new place three months series
00:19I believe I'm pronouncing it right again we're in reverse order because I'm
00:23waiting for the cheese pie the whole pie but they had a tomato and I love tomato
00:28generally because it's generally cruncher and has the crisp that I like so we got the backstory
00:33pretty remarkable backstory he also put parm on it look at me right in the eyes being like I know
00:38you don't like parm but this is how we do this slice so this is how you're getting this slice
00:42um so the backstory should I wait till I get the cheese to tell the backstory no I'll do the
00:49backstory you can make it work however um two guys working at 11 Madison Park which I believe
00:56is where I went to a Kentucky Derby party like 10 years ago and they didn't have the horse races on
01:01the undercard I almost flipped out so anyways their chefs there came up with the concept for pizza
01:07during COVID took them four years to find a lease so four years to find a spot I don't exactly know
01:14where we are we're at a very hipster like area of New York where there's like vintage stores and all
01:22that um so four years to get the lease till one didn't fall through they got it uh they didn't
01:28want to take investment put it on their credit card these are like chefs I'm like what's the name
01:32series mean he's like it's a wild type of yeast that gives off something that I lost them after a wild
01:39kind of yeast but they're chefs chefs and he did the drizzle drizzle on it so let's see how it goes
01:44they're also on Fallon the other day for some reason had nothing to do with us coming here
01:49this has been on my list for I don't know a month month and a half but I don't live in New York
01:53anymore so here we go here's the tomato great undercarriage this will not be what I base the
01:58score on this is just pleasure eating I'll wait for the fresh large pie
02:03so I don't like fancy pizza generally when I say I don't like it when you do the parm and you do the
02:23little drizzle this worked you can kind of I don't want to go get ahead of my skis but you can tell
02:29their chefs like this didn't overpower the slice this is great we'll see what the cheese does but
02:36this this one has easy eight so we'll see if the cheese bit them in the ass because this is not
02:42the official score but this is great I mean this is a great slice if I eat a whole pie of it I don't
02:49know single slice amazing but wait for the cheese
02:52wait I've said it ten times I've had so much pizza I said I didn't want any this is this is why you're
03:08in the game this tomato slice it's mid-high eight I don't even know what a nine is anymore I've given
03:15up on trying to figure that out because people like what do you have to do to do a nine I honestly
03:21don't know what's going on this tomato slice I put up against any slice I've ever had honestly I would
03:28that's how good this is will not be the score they chose to go cheese
03:32it has good slices you can have period now the only thing is I don't know if I could eat a hundred of
03:40them like the Sally's or a crash in New Haven but a single slice I'm like nervous
03:58all right here we go
04:28so with the cheese review made with love in Manhattan oh that's isn't that a nice touch
04:35they say who made the pizza Jake and Julian they're the only two from what I gather who
04:39work there so at this point it's got to be them um I'm slightly nervous do you want to walk through
04:45you just here for the show what's going on
04:47pizza you're right about that you want slice
04:52you want slice no just watch all right stay focused because I'm coming in saying I was like
04:59nervous and I I don't get nervous to eat pizza I've had pizza every day for like 10,000 straight days now
05:06the tomato slice which you'll have to put in was just about the best slice single I've ever had now
05:12the only thing it was rich so could I have a whole thing and I said I'm gonna score the cheese look
05:17it looks beautiful
05:17and I'm hoping
05:20I'm hoping this lives up to it it feels like it would great undercarriage the char on it
05:30they did a little less parm it looked like but still the drizzle drizzle
05:34so here we go series uh the the wild yeast that grows somewhere or another one bite everybody knows
05:41the rules
05:41so
05:49I mean a standard answer for me has been what's your favorite for years what's your favorite pizza in Manhattan
06:09John's Bleeker that was almost like the knee jerk number one still love John's Bleeker
06:15this 100% can go toe-to-toe with it without even thinking twice like this is as good as anything I've had in Manhattan
06:22this can live in New Haven this could go anywhere different type pizza obviously in New Haven
06:26but this is
06:28I'm gonna take out the nine I'm gonna take out the nine marker which
06:43I can't remember the last time I gave out a nine I'm going to nine two
06:47nine two here nine two nine two nine three tomato whatever you want
06:53I don't know how they're gonna do it two people they're already on like national tv but
06:58this is as good as you can get in in New York City right now
07:01as good as you can get everyone's giving the scores to them
07:04who are you guys relaying the scores
07:06a good story they put this all in their credit cards
07:13four years in the process
07:15must have top of the list Manhattan pizza without a doubt and I've had it all
07:20this is as good as it gets series great great great pizza
07:25whoo that's yeah it's that good I gotta tell
07:30as good as I bet yeah what did we get nine two
07:37nine two it's as good as I've had thank you
07:39as good as you can get in this thing so I don't know how you guys are gonna keep up
07:42it's just the two of you now but
07:43yeah I was that we got that's good I've had in Manhattan
07:46Awesome.
07:469-2.
07:47Thanks, Steve.
07:48And what's the glasses?
07:51They came like that.
07:53I didn't know if that was some crazy chef glasses.
07:55No, no, no.
07:56They are.
07:56They're fucking crazy.
07:57Yeah.
07:58No, it's spectacular.
07:59Thanks so much.
07:59Thank you for coming.
08:00Yeah.
08:01Take care.
08:01Good luck.
08:01Congrats.
08:02Have a great day.
08:02Yep.

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