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Grimaldi’s: A Taste of Brooklyn in Scottsdale Quarter By Kenneth LaFave The new Brooklyn Bridge pizza at Grimaldi’s blends ricotta cheese, Italian sausage and roasted red peppers.
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ere’s a little-known piece of New York City lore. It concerns the ending of the original “King Kong,” when the great ape is atop the Empire State Building, swinging wildly at strafing biplanes. If you look very, very closely at what Kong has in his nonswinging hand, you see that, contrary to those who think it’s Fay Wray, it is actually…. A slice of New York-style pizza. Probably from Grimaldi’s. Named by Zagat the No. 1 Pizzeria in New York, the original Grimaldi’s stands literally beneath the Brooklyn Bridge on the Brooklyn side. Standing next to the parking garage at Scottsdale Quarter is also Grimaldi’s. And except for the lack of taxi horns blaring, it might as well be Brooklyn. “We had a guy come in here from New York who’d eaten at the original Brooklyn Grimaldi’s for years,” relates Brian Herskovets, general manager of the Scottsdale Quarter restaurant. “He ate here and said, ‘It’s just like back home!’ I told him, ‘Yes, but without the long lines.’” Grimaldi’s is not an Italian restaurant, Herskovets is quick to point out. “It’s a New York-style pizzeria, casual but high quality, with red-checkered tablecloths and a wine list.” The menu is pizzas, calzones, salads and desserts. Those long lines outside the original Grimaldi’s in Brooklyn are not only for the signature pizza, but for the history of the place. With the Scottsdale Quarter location, you can skip the history, and go straight for the payoff: New York-style pizza in one of three classic forms: with tomato sauce, with pesto or “white” with garlic. Sizes range from a personal 12-incher to a “small” 16-inch pie to the large 18-inch, with prices going from $9 to $18. That’s for the basic pizza. Toppings are more, and until now, everything has been a la carte. You want mushrooms, olives, pepperoni, sausage? It’s been strictly buildyour-own pie. That changed recently with the addition of “Chef’s Selections” pizzas. The flagship pie in this new category is called—of