Conversations About Food

Carlinha Carioca Posted: November 6, 2020

Have you ever consider moving and thought about the foods you would miss the most once you relocated? About a year ago when I moved from New York City to the Emerald Coast, I thought about many different foods I would miss and would never be able to find here. There was one particular food New Yorker’s are very snobby about it and will quickly state “you never have it the same any place else.”  Maybe to some it will come as a surprise I am talking about Pizza. It is said that there are over 30,000 pizza places in New York City alone and many will claim they carry the best New York Pizza around.  If you lived in New York city as I have and eating as many pizzas as I have, you would quickly learn, New Yorkers claim their pizza is the best due to New York City tap water. There are even talks of places opening elsewhere and exporting New York Tap water to make their pizza dough the best. Although New York water making their pizza the best is still debatable, one thing is for sure New York pizza is awesome and hard to find any place else.

In my search for good pizza on The Emerald Coast I have been disappointed many times. It wasn’t until a few months after I arrived here, while strolling through a place called Grand Boulevard that I came across “Grimaldi’s Pizzeria, a name very familiar to me. “Grimaldi’s Pizzeria is a very famous place originally located under the Brooklyn bridge in New York, which I been a few times. What is great about Grimaldi’s Pizza is that they are made in a coal fired brick oven. Their thin crust pizza taste as delicious here as they did in New York. Grimaldi’s is a great family place to either eat in or carry out. Their salads and calzones are also very tasty. If you are a meat lover try my favorite pizza “The Don.” So, if you decide to check out this great pizza place go in with time to enjoy a nice stroll around Grand Boulevard in Miramar beach.

Stay safe & healthy.  Until next time…

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