08.28.06
The Hungry Cabbie Eats The Outer Boroughs: Fratelli’s Pizza Cafe
One decade ago, a New York City yellow cab driver named Brent Owens filmed, what some consider, a landmark documentary for HBO. Hookers At The Point is about rampant prostitution, drugs, and despair in a rough, isolated Bronx neighborhood called Hunt’s Point.
Two days ago, a New York City yellow cab driver named Dave Freedenberg wrote, what he considers, a landmark column for Gothamist. The Hungry Cabbie Eats The Outer Boroughs: Fratelli’s Pizza Cafe is about delicious broccoli rabe, sausage and rabe Sicilian slices, and rabe heroes in that very same rough, isolated Bronx neighborhood.
BonzoGal said,
August 28, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Good review on The Gothamist. I looked at Blue Ribbon’s menu, and have a question- what’s “Wor Matzoh Soup”, and why is it worth $25?
Sloane said,
August 29, 2006 at 1:35 pm
I don’t know if I had the exact same thing, but at the Blue Ribbon in Soho I had the matzoh ball soup and the matzoh balls had NO flavor, it was pretty disappointing. But I love almost everything else there, especially the fried chicken…
Marlena said,
August 31, 2006 at 2:32 pm
How long have you been dying to post that Hookers at the Point image?
I love brocolli rabe and as you closest NYC vegetarian friend, I’m hurt–YES HURT–that you didn’t take me to get some.
The Hungry Cabbie: The Eating Adventures of a NYC Yellow Cabbie » Boot Of The Bronx said,
May 2, 2007 at 7:09 am
[...] Unfortunately, they cut a scene showing those delicious Little Neck Clams Possilipo at Artie’s in City Island. But they’ve got great shots of the broccoli rabe at Fratelli’s in Hunt’s Point, the fried calzone at Louie and Ernie’s in Pelham Bay, the Italian Ice next door at Teresa’s, and the cannoli at Madonia Brothers on Arthur Ave. Classic food porn. Enjoy. [...]