{"id":1261,"date":"2013-12-21T19:35:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T00:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.famousoriginala.com\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2013-12-21T19:35:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T00:35:31","slug":"weeklypizzalunch-the-nonna-at-tufino-in-astoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/margotspizza.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/21\/weeklypizzalunch-the-nonna-at-tufino-in-astoria\/","title":{"rendered":"#weeklypizzalunch: The Nonna at Tufino in Astoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2492\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2492\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2492\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.margotspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131221-tufino-pizza.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" alt=\"Tufino Margherita Pizza\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A naturally leavened dough uses only wild yeast present on the flour and in the air. It gives the pizza crust a nice, slightly tangly flavor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tufino is one of the few places in NYC making naturally leavened wood-fired pizza. I love Tufino, but I&#8217;m also a bit jealous. For years I&#8217;ve been saying that Astoria could use a good wood-oven joint. I&#8217;d even secretly thought of opening one myself. But, well, look what happens when you don&#8217;t act on your dreams. Someone else beats you to the punch. Glad to have them here. They&#8217;re literally 2 blocks from my apartment. Never thought I&#8217;d have a great WFO Neapolitan option that close to home. Cheers!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Tufino:<\/strong>\u00a036-08 Ditmars Boulevard, Astoria NY 11105;\u00a0718-278-4800;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tufinopizzeria.com\">tufinopizzeria.com\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tufino is one of the few places in NYC making naturally leavened wood-fired pizza. I love Tufino, but I&#8217;m also a bit jealous. For years I&#8217;ve been saying that Astoria could use a good wood-oven joint. I&#8217;d even secretly thought of opening one myself. But, well, look what happens when you don&#8217;t act on your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/margotspizza.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/21\/weeklypizzalunch-the-nonna-at-tufino-in-astoria\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#weeklypizzalunch: The Nonna at Tufino in Astoria<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[34,89,123,134,172,215],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-peoples-pizza","tag-astoria","tag-instagram","tag-neapolitan-in-nyc","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-tufino"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9SPdW-kl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2562,"url":"https:\/\/margotspizza.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/18\/rizzos-fine-pizza-astoria-queens-les-nyc\/","url_meta":{"origin":1261,"position":0},"title":"Rizzo&#8217;s: Fine pizza in Astoria and on the LES","author":"Adam Kuban","date":"January 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Rizzo's Fine Pizza serves what it calls a \"thin-crust Sicilian.\" Sometimes it seems closer to a grandma-style pizza, but I'm not going to quibble. 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