{"id":949,"date":"2006-04-10T11:12:42","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T19:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/difaras_closed_only_temporarily.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:44:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:44:59","slug":"difaras_closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/difaras_closed.html","title":{"rendered":"DiFara’s Closed Only Temporarily"},"content":{"rendered":"

DiFara’s in Brooklyn was recently closed for owner Domenico DeMarco’s foot surgery, not for forever, as many had feared<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The famed pizzeria on Avenue J in Midwood was unexpectedly shuttered for the first time in 18 years after owner and pizza master Domenico DeMarco — who makes every pie himself — had foot surgery.<\/p>\n

“I was really worried about all the people from far away and I wouldn’t be here to make them pizza,” said DeMarco, 69, who runs the store with his seven kids and works seven days a week.<\/p>\n

DeMarco closed for a week — but the sudden shuttering sent panicked ripples among foodies across the city and sparked rumors it was closed for good.<\/p>\n

DeMarco said if he couldn’t be there himself, he didn’t want to risk serving his customers an inferior pizza.<\/p>\n

“I believe that if you close the shop, the people will come back,” he said. “But if you stay open and give them something [other] than what they’re used to, they won’t come back.”<\/p>\n

The last time DeMarco closed up was for a 1988 trip to Italy.<\/p>\n

“This just ruined my weekend. I’ve been thinking about this pizza for about a month,” said Justin Mazzeo, 23, who stopped by Friday while home from college, only to find the doors locked.<\/p>\n

“You have to see this guy in action. He’s slow as molasses, but he makes the best damn pizza anywhere,” added Mazzeo.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Eyewitness accounts to the contrary<\/a>, 18 years is an awfully long time to be open . . .<\/p>\n

For further research<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DiFara’s in Brooklyn was recently closed for owner Domenico DeMarco’s foot surgery, not for forever, as many had feared: The famed pizzeria on Avenue J in Midwood was unexpectedly shuttered for the first time in 18 years after owner and pizza master Domenico DeMarco — who makes every pie himself — had foot surgery. “I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}