Hankering for a slice of Brooklyn’s finest? Patsy Grimaldi’s, now finally open in Hengshan Mansions, is hoping to answer your calls. Serving up New York-style pizzas, Grimaldi’s is aiming to be a straight talking antithesis to Shanghai’s abundance of fancy pants, gourmet-style pizzas. However, if you were expecting this to be cheap, think again, because Grimaldi’s is kind of charging a premium for their pizza pies.
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Situated in a great high traffic location, the place has a very pleasant, cheerful vibe, benefitting from an attractive outside dining area and high-ceilinged, modernist interiors within. Those familiar with the Brooklyn original will still find touches like the original red and white-checkered tablemats, along with pictures of the owner alongside such illustrious celebrities as J-Lo, Mike Tyson and Courtney Love.
Sticking to original formula, the menu contains the original pizzas found in the New York branch. We tried a half n’ half of their most popular offering, the Italian fennel sausage with mushrooms, and a ‘white’ pizza with extra mozzarella, fresh ricotta cheese and baked sweet peppers. Taste wise it’s pretty hard to fault Grimaldi’s, which benefits from a fresh dough made daily by a native New York chef, fresh Italian imported ingredients, along with a 500 degree coal-fired brick oven just like the Stateside original.
In terms of pricing, pizzas are situated at the upper end of the scale with a ‘Personal Pizza’ of four slices coming in at around RMB128, which gets you a classic Margherita (adding on RMB18 for every topping after that). This stretches up to RMB168 for a 16-inch or RMB188 for a gargantuan 18-incher. While Grimaldi’s admits this is slightly high up the pricing range, bear in mind that the biggest 18-incher feeds up to 4 people, thus averaging out at RMB47 per person.
As such, we recommend checking out Grimaldi’s with a big group of friends to get more bang for your buck. And it’s not just the pizza portions here that are pretty huge; a large version of Grimaldi’s Caesar salad is enough to feed eight people and comes in at just RMB88.
Grimaldi’s is offering a lunchtime deal running weekdays from 11:30am – 2:30pm. Receive one 12-inch pizza plus two soft drinks for RMB128 or one 18-inch pizza with four soft drinks for RMB218.
Price: Ranging from RMB128 per person to RMB47 depending on group size
Who’s going: Mainly locals
Good for: Big groups, casual lunch
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