GFbird: The Best Gluten-Free Pizza in NYC (The World?)

Monday, September 2, 2013

The Best Gluten-Free Pizza in NYC (The World?)

One word: Keste. I went on Saturday and was blown away.

Pizza ai funghi

Full sized pizza. Six slices. I ATE IT ALL. One bite and I couldn't stop.

I grew up on Brooklyn slices and this, this is damn close. Charred on the bottom, with a substantial chewy crust on the edges. (I suspect tapioca is a main ingredient, as the texture was similar to pao de queijo, aka Brazilian cheese bread.) Slices that you could pick up and fold without them breaking - THAT kinda pizza. Oh man.

I didn't have a reaction. I half-expected to feel sick just from having eaten an entire pizza, but I felt totally fine! They prepare and cook the gluten-free menu items in a separate prep area and oven. Some folks may remember when Keste only had GF pizza available a couple days a week. Please note that the gluten-free menu is now available every day!

I'm done with other pizza. Keste or nothing. Truly, it is that good.

Keste is located at 271 Bleecker Street.

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I was always an avid home cook and restaurant-goer. From my teens on, my idea of "going out" generally involved some form of social eating. I grew up with a huge extended family that regularly dined together and I was in the kitchen helping my grandmother from an early age.

I often joke that I come from deli royalty, as my family owned one in Brooklyn for almost 30 years - so there was always a ton of good food around. Seemed only natural when I started working in restaurants in my early teens, though an accident with a dull knife and my left index finger ended my back of the house aspirations along the way. I've had pretty much every front of the house position at all types of venues, including a few years at Moosewood Restaurant. In my mid-20's, I started to work in healthcare, and have always maintained a love of food and eating well. In 2010, I melded my passions for health and food by completing a master's in public health nutrition.

After being diagnosed with celiac and DH back in 2003, I didn't go out to eat for three years! I don't even remember how long it was before I felt competent enough in the kitchen again to be a gf hostest with the mostest. But that was 10 years ago; I've changed along with the gf product/knowledge landscape. Back in NYC after many years in upstate NY, I'm committed to having a social eating life again, dishing up good eats at home and enjoying what gf vittles NYC has to offer. As any gf person can appreciate, this involves a fair amount of research and planning. Seems a shame to keep all that I've learned to myself; hence this blog.

Monday, September 2, 2013

The Best Gluten-Free Pizza in NYC (The World?)

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