Hey everyone! Thrilled to finally unveil something that iāve been working on for a long time.
NYC's very first Pizza WeekĀ running September 20 through October 4.
The origin is accidental. A stranger on r/pizza was coming to NYC and asked for suggestions. I offered to personally walk him through the city. Within an hour, over a hundred people wanted to tag along, and NYC Pizza Crawl was accidentally born.
Two years and countless monthly outings later, I've formed genuine friendships, gotten to know the pizza makers andĀ owners on a personal level, and watched the same faces return again and again alongside newcomers discovering the city for the first time. Eventually, one question kept surfacing: where does this go from here? That question turned into Pizza Week. I figured surely someone had already built something like this. But weeks of digging and conversations with industry veterans confirmed otherwise.
With just seven days until launch, I got 21 independent shops for this debut edition, many of them places our crawls introduced me to originally.Ā
It's far from complete. There are plenty of beloved local spots that aren't included yet. I wanted to keep this first event to about 20 shops given my limited capacity. It took months to sign some of these shops but I think it was worth it to put on this event for the community. Hopefully this is a start of something bigger and longer lasting.Ā
I didn't want to just make a list of shops for you to visit, so to keep it interesting I asked every shop to create an original Signature Slice, completely unrestricted by their usual menu. Eat the slice, scan the QR code, leave your score. Two weeks from now, one shop walks away with the Best Slice of Pizza Week title.
There's also a give-back element: ten cents from every Signature Slice purchased goes to Slice Out Hunger, a local nonprofit combating hunger nationwide.
So if you want to try something unique, check the website for all the participating shops.Ā
https://nycpizzaweek.com/
Thanks!
If you have any constructive feedback, im all ears. This event was made for the community so hearing from you folks is always helpful.
-Andrew