Upon entering 976 Elmwood Ave., an array of pizzas is laid out on the stone countertop, waiting to be devoured by hungry customers. The scents of pepperoni, sausage and Italian food fill the air, and mouths start to salivate.
Welcome to the newest location of Zetti’s Pizza & Pasta at the corner of Bidwell Parkway and Elmwood Avenue.
“I like the fact that they put all their pizzas out so you can see them,” Edward Tierney said. “It’s like a candy shop.”
Zetti’s is different from other Buffalo pizzerias, as it specializes in New York-style pizza. That pizza is usually thin, wide and “foldable,” with a puffy outer crust tapering down to a thin, crispy middle.
Tierney, 47, lives on Bidwell Parkway, right across from Zetti’s, and has now visited the new location three times since it opened just under two weeks ago.
Aside from the scent and display of pizzas, the dining area of the restaurant holds 13 wooden tables of various sizes. The cream and purple walls and lighting are modern, bright and open. Large windows in the front of the building offer diners a view of Elmwood Avenue.
“I think they did a good job of utilizing the space,” Tierney said.
Customers will find a variety of options on the menu, which offers more than just pizza and pasta.
A slice of cheese pizza is $1.80, and since the slices are New York-style, a slice is the size of two slices at other pizzerias in the area.
Zetti’s also has several gourmet pizza options, including a Penne alla Vodka pizza, which includes penne pasta, vodka sauce and mozzarella cheese.
In addition to pizza, there are hero sandwiches, calzones and entrees.
While the menu includes traditional Italian dishes, other unique options are also available, including pasta a coure, which includes shrimp, chicken and artichoke hearts sauteed in a white wine lemon butter sauce over pasta.
Zetti’s isn’t the first pizzeria to open in this location. Just Pizza was housed there before it moved to the corner of Elmwood Avenue and Summer Street. Uncle Joe’s Pizzeria was also located in the building, which was built in 1895.
“It’s good to have it in the Elmwood area,” Bill Nimelman said.
Nimelman, 50, also lives on Bidwell Parkway across from the restaurant.
This is Zetti’s third location in the Buffalo area. They have restaurants across from both SUNY University at Buffalo campus locations, including one at 3500 Main St. in Amherst. The other location, at 4621 Maple Road, opened in November 2009.
Hours for the Elmwood location aren’t solidified yet, but an employee said the restaurant is likely to be open until midnight on weeknights and 2 a.m. on weekends. Customers can eat in, take out, or call for delivery.
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Karen Healey, whose excellent book Guardian of the Dead I will be reviewing shortly, along with several other very fine books just as soon as I have finished writing my own book (Can't sleep! Deadline will get me!) has a very interesting post on YA Fantasy: Full of Miscreants. Which sprang from a conversation we had in which she blackened one of my characters' names and I defended said character valiantly.
It occurred to me only after reading her blog post that she mostly discusses the Bad Boy Heroes of young adult fantasy, whereas the guy she discusses for my book is the (comparatively) good guy sidekick. So not only is my bad boy a little too bad for the tastes of some, but so's my nice guy. Oh, self. Get a commercial instinct someday. Put it on your shopping list along with ginger biscuits!
I was also thinking about this less-recent post Justine Larbalestier wrote about, among other things, readers who only read one of an author's serieses...es and I was thinking about that also! I mean, I know it happens all the time, no matter how successful a writer is. A whoooooole lot of people read Stephenie Meyer's The Host, for instance. But about a zillionty more people read Twilight.
And this of course makes sense: for one thing, some readers don't think about the writer - they are super into these specific characters, and wish to be with them! But some people seem to actively resent the other books an author writes as if, had they not got the idea for this New Thing, they would have written more of the Old Thing. And again, that makes sense: much nicer to go 'Mmm, I like this thing. Where is more of it? Oh, here it is! Yay!' than 'I will try it and I hope I will like it...' I've seen people on the internet upset about George R.R. Martin's new novella because what they want is a new Song of Ice and Fire book - though wanting the next book in a series is obviously a lovely and flattering thing, and waiting is hard, they do seem very upset.
As someone not-crazy-famous, plus a baby author with only one book out, it's not something I have had to address myself, but as someone finishing the third book of her trilogy and thinking about writing other things, it is a Topic of Interest to me! I have thus been scouting the internet looking at people's thoughts on the matter: two writers I know are starting new serieseseses this year, and it is all most interesting.
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