LOWER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) — Within the spirit of Valentine’s Day, this week’s Neighborhood Eats takes you to a pizza place that’s the love youngster of a husband and spouse.
You’ll have heard of Cuts & Slices, owned by Randy and Ashlee McLaren, and the lengthy traces that wrapped across the pizzeria when the couple first opened up store in Bedford-Stuyvesant in February of 2018.
In 2024, the couple expanded from their small little store in Brooklyn into their second location in St. Albans, Queens. Now the couple has opened their third location on Houston Avenue on the Decrease East Facet.
“I got here to Ashlee with the thought and I used to be like, ‘Ought to we open a pizzeria?’ And he or she was like, what do we’ve got to lose,” Randy mentioned.
In a metropolis crammed with pizzerias, Ashlee informed her husband that there needed to be one thing that stood out about Cuts & Slices.
“Normally you’d see an Italian cooking and making pizza. That’s who often makes the pizza in New York Metropolis. So I used to be like, what are you going to try this’s totally different,” she mentioned.
Randy says the trick to creating their model distinctive was developing with a menu of issues that they like to eat and toppings they like to placed on their pizza.
The pizzeria in the end went viral for his or her oxtail pizza, during which some folks waited three hours to strive.
“It was nice to really feel that our meals is serving a group and that persons are keen to attend for it and adore it, and it did not cease,” Ashlee mentioned.
With one 8-pie oven, the couple says they have been getting a variety of nice suggestions from the 1000’s of people who lined as much as have a chew of their meals. At one level, they are saying Cuts & Slices was constantly promoting out.
“They actually did not know what we have been doing in that kitchen, we have been creating magic,” Ashlee added.
Some prospects at their Brooklyn location who have been vegan ended up consuming their oxtail pizza, in keeping with Randy.
With all their success, some folks could assume that there is nonetheless a protracted wait to seize a slice at their store. The couple, nonetheless, says that’s not the case, and that at most it is likely to be a five-minute wait and encourages folks to cease by.
Among the many couple’s favourite slices embody their candy chili hen pizza, curry oxtail pizza and two forms of shrimp and lobster alfredo pizzas.
A few of Randy’s go-to menu gadgets are the jerk hen black truffle alfredo pizza and the fried salmon black truffle alfredo pizza.
“So we get truffles imported. Each pizza is topped recent truffle, recent parmesan. The black truffle alfredo sauce is made with recent truffle. It is simply so decadent, it is wonderful,” he mentioned.
There’s even a $20 slice of pizza that folks can order from the menu.
“If folks come right here ordering cheese, I will simply give them, I am like choose one other slice out of the window that you simply simply need to strive,” Randy mentioned.
In the long run, Randy hopes prospects visiting Cuts & Slices strive one thing new past the everyday common pizza slice.
“I feel we have all been brainwashed to assume that solely cheese and sauce belong on pizza. That is all we have recognized,” he mentioned. “However in the event you step out of the field for a second and check out one thing new, I assure you’ll not be upset.”
Yow will discover out extra in regards to the restaurant on the Cuts & Slices web site.
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