Home of the DOUBLE STACKED PIZZA! Insane NYC Pizza Shop! _ Who's Hungry_ _ DEVOUR POWER

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In this video, Greg from DEVOUR POWER meets up with Frank "The Pizza Man of NYC", Owner of East Village Pizza in New York City! As Frank passionately tosses around his pizza dough and creates some of his most viral and sought after pizzas, like their DOUBLE STACKED PIZZA with a Pepperoni Pizza on top and a Buffalo Chicken Pizza on the bottom, and their CHEESY PEPPERONI GARLIC KNOTS, he tells his amazing story of how East Village Pizza came to be one of the most popular pizza joints in the city, with people coming from all over the world to DEVOUR. You do NOT want to miss this one! Who's hungry?

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00:00Pizza is the healthiest snack in the world. It is like the dough is around for like millions of years people have having dough cheese

00:07What's up guys today we are in Manhattan's East Village on possibly the coldest day in history

00:34I'm talking single digits, baby

00:37But don't worry. We're about to heat up with some pizza, but not your average pizza

00:42I'm talking double stacked pizzas two pizzas in one slice. It's insane

00:47Super cheesy pepperoni packed garlic knots wildly cheesy calzones

00:51Probably the best buffalo chicken pizza I've ever had we're hitting up the one and only East Village pizza and meeting up with the owner

00:57Frank if there's one guy that lives and breathes pizza. It's this guy. Let's go check it out

01:01You ready? Let's do it. Come on. Let's do it

01:08Okay, that's my baby dough. I like playing with my baby dough

01:17Now this is the double stack of first layer now we're gonna add the buffalo chicken

01:22There is no sauce at this first layer

01:25You don't put any pizza sauce normally buffalo chicken doesn't have a pizza sauce

01:29But any kind of double stack has no pizza sauce in the first layer and there is a reason for it

01:35And that's a secret. I won't tell you that

01:38Fried amount of cheese just a little bit. This is just a pizza by itself. Just one pizza, but now we're gonna make it double

01:46Now the uh this layer has the pizza sauce whatever you're gonna add i'm gonna make the pepperoni

01:56I just have to put the pizza sauce cheese and the pepperoni

02:03Like you're making an art like a painting picasso it is pizza making is art actually

02:08So it is important actually to choose the right mozzarella and the pepperoni

02:13I really hate when pepperoni pizza has like three pepperonis on a slide if I see a single spot empty on the slice I get mad

02:23Look look at this I call this double stack you call it double salad look at this beautiful now

02:29It'll take probably 20 minutes to cook

02:37Classic new york style the classic to get the the taste of the new york style pizza that actually comes from 150 years before

02:46You need experience for that the taste the texture and the way you make it including the oven

02:53There's an experience and I love my

02:59This village pizza actually was here opened in 1997. I did delivery

03:06by bike and I washed dishes making boxes prep speak no english

03:10Probably I could say at that time yes no and uh like can I get a cigarette that's it

03:16I didn't even know what pizza was I never had pizza in my life

03:20My first slice of pizza that I had that was here. I'm a talented guy see I told I tell this story make pizza cook it

03:29People ask me how did you make it like one day you just wake up and decided to make double stack pizza no

03:36I spent time in my kitchen I play with my dough I always said I play with my dough

03:41You ready for the slice please?

03:51Yep

03:52It's not that I'm happy because I'm happy because the customers are happy because they

04:11really like after six months that I start working here I got fired experience prep

04:35guy downstairs he made a mistake and I told him this is not the way we should

04:40make it the dough is something wrong with the dough I don't even make prep I'm a delivery guy he sent

04:45me home but he was a nice guy he was a really nice guy the boss so kept looking for a job I was like I

04:51need a job I desperately need a job I walked door to door to the pizzerias I ended up finding a job

04:57on mcdougall street on west 3rd the best pizzeria I learned from John on mcdougall street I learned

05:03how to make pizza and I learned from him how to create a recipe but I learned how to run a pizzeria

05:10from domino's what I learned from domino's is a professional way to run the store this is what

05:16happens when you talk and make pizza ready for the buffalo chicken oh my god this is heavy

05:23I really want you to listen to the crunch on the buffalo chicken pizza quiet

05:31that's my buffalo chicken pizza

05:52that's my buffalo chicken pizza

05:54it got broken because there's a lot of stuff in it look at this it's really magic to carry this

06:05tin dough this much stuff

06:10oh very hot

06:11a little bit of cheese this is ricotta goes in the middle of mozzarella cheese very little of more

06:29cheese just a little bit and now I have to cover it because we call it calzone just like that

06:39I have to punch it a little bit I walked domino's pizza for almost two years year and a half I managed

06:47the place my brother was working here at the whole time and even when I got here he got here before me

06:54so I heard the place was on sale I pushed my brother look this is a chance that we could do it

07:01this is a chance that we could do it if we don't do it we're not going to have any chance like this

07:04because it's a ready to go store at least I know how to make pizza and I know some running a pizzeria

07:09so at the end of the day he said okay let's do it he listened to me he's always saying that thank

07:14god I listened to you cheesy calzone I didn't know like I was going to face a lot of hardship

07:21hard times after we got the store because we I started working more than what I used to work

07:26it was not saying pizza I changed almost everything I changed the pizza sauce I changed the pizzas the

07:32recipes the cheese I changed the cheese I never stopped uh thinking how do I get it better I never

07:39stopped working hard I always was on top every day when I got here when I was working I was like

07:45what should I do to make a better pizza how what I can do better to reach more people because

07:50making a better pizza or really good pizza is good but one thing that really important you have to

07:57know how to sell it so that's a long story let's make it short that's the easiest calzone ever look at this

08:10hydration level look at this fermentation that's my baby doll I try to find new things like what I can do

08:19better Instagram came out instead of using my personal pictures personal photos on Instagram I

08:26start adding pizza pictures and even my friends were like Frank what are you doing what are you doing

08:31like this is like this is your personal things like what are you doing come on put yourself not the

08:36pizzas I said like guys you want to see me you can come to my house you're my friend you don't need to

08:40see me you know how I look what do you what do you want from me and then then Instagram first feature

08:47that was available for videos I started making videos that blew me up what I did nothing crazy

08:53take the pizza put them in the box right and then cut it and show people that this is what I did

09:00a couple of my posts maybe more than couple got viral

09:07it helped me a lot

09:08it helped me a lot

09:11since you're using the social media you get used to everything bad comment nice comment good

09:16compliment bad compliment so we're good

09:28definitely yes oh yeah

09:47always thankful to the community that they support me my local community and also to the world that

09:53people come here they get to know what I made they get to know my personality they get to know my

09:59passion about pizza and they get to know where they are eating

10:04my name is Frank I am the owner of the East Delish pizza we are making delicious beautiful but

10:23simple pizza for you guys and thank you for your support

10:31yeah yeah yeah

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