My old roommate Minnow is leaving at the end of the month to go on a road trip with her fiance, never to return to NYC. She’s relocating to San Fran and I’m very sad.
Sunday we met for brunch in Brooklyn at this pizza place that also makes breakfast pizzas, Motorino. On Saturdays and Sundays, from 11am-4pm, breakfast pizzas appear on the menu with a choice of juice or bloody mary for a great deal of $10.
I like my pizzas with red sauce and given that it was 1pm, I was more in the mood for lunch than eggs. I chose the spicy soppressata pizza.
Wow this pizza really hit the spot. The sopressata is spicy and garlicky and slightly crunchy around the edges from the wood burning oven where all the pizzas are cooked. The red sauce was a perfectly tangy compliment to the smooth mild melted mozzarella. It was a burst of flavor in every bite.
Minnow’s fiance got the breakfast pizza — white sauce, cheese and three eggs are scattered with pancetta and fresh basil.
I am not a white pizza fan ever — really pizza to me is all about the sauce and melted cheese. This pizza almost tasted bland to me? The egg was bland and well, eggy, and the white sauce imparted no new layer of flav.
Minnow had a pretty good standard: fried eggs over potatoes and guanciale.
In my opinion, the spicy and salty guanciale really made the dish for me. It is a stray from your traditional bacon and it was very good. The eggs were well cooked and the potoates roasted the way they should — crispy outside, tender mealy inside.
I LOVED my pizza though so i highly recommend, if you find yourself in Brooklyn, definitely try this place for their crusty tasy pizzas.
Motorino, 319 Graham Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11211
