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ADVANCE PURCHASE IS REQUIRED - TOURS USUALLY SELL OUT IN ADVANCE! |
ALL TOURS LEAVE FROM MANHATTAN! |
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The Times
A HALF-DAY bus tour of Brooklyn? ’ÄúFugheddaboudit’Äù is the response one might expect from a Brooklynite. But mention that there is free pizza thrown in, and that the slices on offer are among the finest on earth, and the tour becomes suddenly tempting.....read more
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New York Post
May 5, 2008-- HOMING in on his 40th birthday and miserable in his career as a respiratory therapist, Tony Muia considered the advice he'd gleaned from various change-your-career guides. "The first thing they all say is, write down what you know and love," says Muia, a native of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. "I thought, well, I love Brooklyn, and I love pizza, and that's where the list ended.".....read more
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The New York Times
WHEN you were a toddler, you needed someone to tell you what to taste. Cheerios, yes. Dirt, no. Electrical outlets, no way. As an adult, you presumably don't need much help, though occasionally a sommelier comes in handy. So the idea of a food tour may seem odd: why pay someone to tell you what to eat?.....read more
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Crain's
"Tony Muia's "Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour" visits two famed pizzerias-Grimaldi's and L&B Spumoni Gardens-and tops off with a four hour tour of the neighborhoods along the way....."I know Brooklyn and I know pizza," he said "Why not put them together and do something I love".....read more
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Food Arts
’ÄúEverybody knows that some of the best pizzerias are in Brooklyn,’Äù says Muia, 41, an energetic native with tattoos across his thick forearms and a sharp black crew cut. He grew up in Bensonhurst, the middle son of an Italian barber and a seamstress who had emigrated from Reggio, Calabria.’Äù.....read more
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Travel Weekly
"Tony Muia knows where to find the best canolli on Brooklyn, and the second-best canolli. If preesed, he'll offer an opinion on wher to find the traditional, ricotta cheese-stuffed pastry in Mantattan. He can even talk about the canollies in Reggio, Italy".....read more
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
"A tour debuting in Brooklyn today has everyone's stomachs rumbling. "A Slice of Brooklyn," the brainchild of Bensonhurst native Tony Muia, will treat sightseers to four and a half hours of local history, movie trivia, and-best-of-all pizza".....read more
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Brooklyn News
"DOMINO'S BROOKLYN-style pizza? As we said a couple of weeks ago: Fuhgeddaboudit! Even though the new TV ads promise an authentic taste of the borough at its franchise stores, out-of-towners are hankering for the real thing.....read more
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Daily News
"The bus will also cruise down Bensonhurst's main drag. As they pass the famous Lenny's Pizza, the opening scene of Saturday Night Fever" will play on the bus' big screen, showing John Travolta bopping down 86th St., stopping at the sidewalk to tell the pizzaiola: "Two, two. Gimme two.".....read more
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Dumbo Newsletter
"A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour invites pizza fans to climb aboard the city’s only guided bus tour of Brooklyn’s best pizzeria - and to thoroughly enjoy the ride. The tour was started".....read more
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Asbury Park Press
"...a very young John Travolta walks down the same busy street. Travolta stops at Linny's Pizza for two slices just as we drive past the pizzeria. We could be in a time warp or a movie set. Then, Travolta turns into the Shrit World store and reality returns. The corner storefront is now a McDonald's".....read more
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How a New York Times editor set out to answer the peculiarly marvelous questions of his precocious young son-and wound up on an unexpected journey of his own.
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