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Slice Out Hunger Is A Pizza Festival Worth Your Time & Money
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Nell Casey
Published Sep 27, 2017
Modified Sep 27, 2017
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Trepidation about taking part in a festival devoted to pizza is understandable, but there are several fine pizza-eating opportunities, including next Wednesday's annual Slice Out Hunger event, where some well-placed singles net you some saucy slices. The fundraising pizza party brings some of the city's best pie slingers under one roof to sell $1 slices, proceeds from which will be split 50/50 between City Harvest and The Sylvia Center, a non-profit focused on healthy eating.
The event's thrown by pizza expert and founder of Scott's Pizza Tours Scott Wiener. The attending pizzerias are a mixture of old school joints like Di Fara, John's of Bleecker, Grimaldi's, and Lombardi's, and new prestige pizza including Bruno, Emily, and Speedy Romeo. Pizzaphiles will notice that some of these institutions don't typically offer their wares by the slice, so this is a unique opportunity on a few levels.
Attendees purchase $1 tickets—red for pizza, with a limit of 10, and blue for drinks and dessert—at the door and then walk through the room selecting a slice from the desired pizzerias, with a limit of one slice per pizzeria. Doors to the event open at 6 p.m. but previous years have seen long lines to enter the church where the event takes place. A $100 donation gets you and one other person to the front of the line, with 10 red tickets to spend as you wish.
Slice Out Hunger takes place at St. Anthony's Church at 155 Sullivan Street on Wednesday, October 4th.
Participating Pizzerias
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Artichoke
Arturo's
Best Pizza
Boston Pizza
Bruno
Carmine's Pizza Factory
Champion Pizza
Dani's House of Pizza
Denino's
Di Fara
Don Antonio (gf, v)
Dough
Downtown Cafe
Emily
Emmett's
Fiore's
Fornino
Fortina
Goodfellas
Gnocco
Grandaisy Bakery
Grimaldi's
Joe's Pizza
John's of Bleecker
Juliana's
House of Pizza and Calzone
Keste (gf, v)
Lazzara's
Levante
Lombardi's
Loring Place
Lucali
Luzzo's (mobile)
Motorino (v)
New Park Pizza
Nicoletta (gf)
NY Pizza Suprema (v)
Patrizia's
Patsy's
Pizza By Certe
Pizza Moto
Pizzeteria Brunetti
Prince St Pizza
Ribalta (gf)
Rizzo's
Rubirosa
Rosco's Pizza
Rossopomodoro
San Matteo (mobile)
Sal's Little Italy
Sam's Restaurant
Screamers (v)
Sofia Pizza Shoppe
Song È Napule
Sotto 13
Sottocasa (v)
Speedy Romeo
Table 87
Tony Baloney's
Two Boots (gf, v)
Urban Fire
Uno
Valducci's
Wheated
Williamsburg Pizza
gf = gluten free options available
v = vegan options available
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