Learning Knowledge to Make Pizza: Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour-with Tony Muia

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Thursday, August 20, 2015

Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour-with Tony Muia

Last Friday I went on the Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour with Tony Muia. I really thought the tour was awesome! I learned a lot I didn't know about Brooklyn, and enjoyed the two styles of pizzas on the tour. Tony really knows a lot about Brooklyn and explained so many things most people don't know. I enjoyed seeing cobble stone streets, learning about the history of Brooklyn, and seeing how much Brooklyn is changing into more like Manhattan with all the high rise buildings they are constructing in Brooklyn now. Tony also explained a lot about the mob and what went on in Bensonhurst. Tony took the time to take each of the tour peoples photos under the Brooklyn Bridge. I enjoyed seeing where rich people live in the Bay Ridge part of Brooklyn. Tony explained how Coney Island has changed a lot and who started those changes. I also enjoyed driving through the Bowery and learning how that has changed. I saw some pizza men in the Bari Restaurant and Supply shop and sure would have like to go in and look at them. When we got back to Union Square I asked Tony what would be the best way for me to get there. Tony told me to just walk down the same street until I got there. I Googled how long it would take me to get there and it said it would take 55 minutes. It was already 4:00 PM so it was too late to walk there since they closed at 5:00 PM. There is a restroom on the bus and also good screens to watch what Tony is talking about. The seats were really comfy and there were wide windows so you could see everything. I sat next to a lady from Australia. There were a lot of people from other countries and the US on the pizza tour. I didn't take any photos while driving through the one area of Brooklyn but it was interested to see how the blocks had so many different nationalities and seeing the foods and other things they offered. From one block to the next few blocks things can change a lot. Tony is from Besonhurst and still lives there.

http://www.asliceofbrooklyn.com/our-tours/pizza-tour/

These are some of the things that were seen on the tour.

Come with an appetite because you’ll be eating pizza! You’ll have a tough time deciding which slice is your favorite between the award winning, Neapolitan-style pizza at Grimaldi’s under the Brooklyn Bridge (where’s there’s NO waiting on line!) and the legendary Sicilian-style pizza at L&B Spumoni Gardens.

You’ll see movie locations from favorite films like Saturday Night Fever, Goodfellas, The French Connection, Scent of a Woman, Annie Hall and more!

You’ll love watching movie clips on our TV monitors as we drive up to the locations!

Visit Brooklyn Bridge Park for spectacular views of the iconic Brooklyn Bridge and great photo opportunities!

Walk around Coney Island’s world-famous amusement park and boardwalk.

See incredible views of the world famous Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg and Verrazano-Narrows Bridges.

See the Brooklyn Army Terminal where Elvis shipped off to Germany in 1958.

View million dollar homes along breathtaking Shore Road in Bay Ridge, including the famous “Gingerbread House.”

Learn about your favorite Brooklyn-born celebrities!

Experience parts of Brooklyn you won’t get anywhere else! As Brooklynites, we’ll take you off the beaten path.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN_DPXgJ7nA

I really enjoyed going on Tony's Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour and would highly recommend it for anyone that wants to try two styles of pizzas and also learn about Brooklyn. I thought the Pizza Tour was awesome, and always will recall the memories of going on Tony's pizza tour. Tony and I talked about different style of pizzas after the pizza tour. Tony told me he tried to help a man start another pizza tour in Staten Island, but that pizza tour never really was successful. Tony did show me though the logo on shirts of where that pizza tour went. I was lucky to have tried two of those pizzerias on my trip to Staten Island. I still want to try Joe and Pat's someday.

Included in the photos of Tony's Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour is photos of the ferry ride back and from Staten Island and Manhattan.

I would highly recommend The Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour!!! :) Congrats Tony on your 10th Anniversary!!
Norma