pulino's

The seductively illuminated but acoustically atrocious Bowery restaurant Pulino's will close at the end of the year.

Just a few blocks from the Brooklyn Museum of Art, an ambitious new pizza parlor, Pete Zaaz, breathes new life into an old world classic with its toppings-driven creations. Check it out!

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As you get older it seems to happen more and more often:

Traif (John Del Signore/Gothamist) The Times's first string dining critic Sam

Eater has a letter that restaurateur Keith McNally (Balthazar, Pastis) sent

Appleman (center) at Pulino's. (Katie Sokoler/Gothamist) Since the man who allegedly

Keith McNally, the unassuming media darling behind such influential restaurants as Odeon,