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East Village pizzeria Martina expands the Danny Meyer empire

There are two ways to eat pizza in New York.

Either you order from the cheap neighborhood pizzeria, eating your slice on-the-go or your pie at home. Or you sit down for a meal at a restaurant like Marta, where the booze and the ambience outweighs the double-digit prices of appetizers and individual pizzas.

Enter Martina, a new Roman-style East Village pizzeria from Marta chef Nick Anderer and an addition to Danny Meyer’s dining empire that aims to blend fast and fine dining.

Martina — Anderer’s tribute to the small side-street Roman shops serving up affordable thin-crust pizzas, fried bites and seasonal antipasti into the wee hours when he studied and cooked abroad — is “not a typical fast-casual or quick-serve kind of joint,” he said.

Customers essentially get a two-course meal after placing an order at the counter: “One of them comes with starters and drinks, and your second course is pizza, and it arrives hot and fresh and it’s being made for you,” the East Village resident, 39, said.

We’ll guide you through the experience below: