Casanova's

Casanova's Italian Eatery
338 McGuinness Blvd
Brooklyn, NY 11222

Tonight was my discovery of the "Grandma Slice" (a thin pie baked in a pan with minimal toppings of fresh or canned tomatoes (not sauce) and cheese) with a guy named Joe Gorillio. Does anyone remember Jerry Gorillio in Milwaukee? Lounge singer in his sixties...used to hang out(maybe still does) at Beans and Barley drinking Margaretas and watching rocker boys in tight black jeans bending to bus leftover Tempeh Ruebens.

Anyway, Cassanova is a divey cop hangout by the Pulaski Bridge. It's like an overly lit pizza bar, with no alcohol. On the menu cover a young man with a face mask holds a slice above his head allowing a long steak of cheese to drizzle into his mouth. My roommate and Joe Gorillio were stoned so they found the cover incredibly funny. On the plasma TV a movie about Jamacian Bob Sledding starring John Candy was playing, my companions found this fascinating as well.

The garlic knots are fair, and could use more garlic and less knot. If you're ever in NYC try to hunt down a Grandma Slice, it's the perfect combination of all the good elements of new york pizza for $2.50, and sometimes they throw a piece of basil on top. You don't have to specifically go to Casanova's to find this slice (I just go for the cops) but, The Grandma can be hard to hunt down, showing up more in Queens than the other 4 Burroughs.