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Food-Brooklyn Pizza Works
Brooklyn Pizza bedazzles with Italian treats
By Anna Loustaunau
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For the Daily Titan
Students seeking to fi nd an authentic Italian eatery full of homecooked cuisine, delectable prices and an all-around pleasant experience will fall in love with Brooklyn Pizza Works and Italian Restaurant on sight, its engaging smells and decorated décor drawing them in through the front door.
Located between the cross streets of Rose Drive and Imperial Highway for the last 26 years, Brooklyn Pizza Works is most famous for their variety of specialty pizzas and ethnic Italian entrees of hot and cold sandwiches, stuffed calzone, pasta, seafood, veal, and chicken.
Operating from the hours of 11 a.m.- 9 p.m. on Mondays thru Saturdays and 4 p.m.-9 p.m. on Sundays, Brooklyn is family owned and operated.
The restaurant was recently recognized by the Orange County Register for having the “Best Pizza in Orange County.”
Two of the many celebrated pizza jokes posted on their Web site, concerning the ordering of pizza, are to ask for it “shaken, not stirred” and whether “you could rent a pizza for the night.”
Not only does Brooklyn offer tasty lunch specials of pasta, garlic bread and a soft drink every day between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. for $5.99-$6.99, their piping hot sandwiches (Italian Sausage and Veal Parmigiana) and cold cuts (Tavern Ham and BBQ Chicken Breast) are all under $7.00 with the combination of chips and soda.
Popular dinner dishes, including the option of soup or salad and bread, consist of the Homemade Meat-Loverʼs Lasagna (full of meatballs, sausage, mozzarella and seasoned ricotta) and the Tortellini Boscaiola (Italian “won-tons” sautéed with mushrooms, Alfredo sauce, ham, and garlic).
But the pizzas are what have watered my appetite for attending Brooklynʼs more than twice a month.
A personal recommendation would be to try the White Pizza (exploding with fresh garlic, herbs, olive oil and tons of Romano and mozzarella cheese) with the extra sweet pleasure of pineapple on top. Perfecto!
Some other yummy pizzas to taste are defi nitely the White Vegi (a vegetarian pie of homemade white sauce, tomatoes, mushrooms, onion, eggplant, and cheese) and the Shrimp Supreme (baby shrimp, sausage, and mushroom).
The choice is also available for creating your own pizza with a number of toppings, ranging from pepperoni to broccoli and jalapenos.
A delicious appetizer to season the mood has to be the Fried Pepperoni, so full of fl avor that each bite is pure Italian ecstasy, thus adding to the romantic candle lighting and small booths that are great for a Valentine date or just a friendly meal.
Brooklyn also provide family specials of pizzas or pastas, liters of sodas, bottles of wine and traditional antipasto salad for hungry gathers and has a catering service for picnic parties and birthday bashes.
A take-out menu is accessible as well, for those on the go for a quick slice of spice.
In a nutshell, Brooklyn Pizza Works supplies its customers with scrumptious foods, welcoming waiters, and classic Italian furnishings.
In other words, an excellent place for students to relax after harrowing lectures and parking catastrophes.
Brooklyn Pizza Works is located at 1235 E. Imperial Highway in Placentia.
Sex and the City” writers spread epiphany to women in new book
By DESDEMONA BANDINI
Daily Titan Staff
Ladies, it has happened to us all at one point or another. We are smitten by that emotionally unavailable guy.
He doesnʼt call when he says heʼll call and his stories have poke ridden holes in them. But when you are together, all seems to perfectly fi t into place.
Instead of waiting by the phone for the evasive phone call from him, go pick up the book, “Heʼs Just Not That Into You.”
Written by two of the kids at “Sex in the City,” consultant Greg Behrendt and writer Liz Tuccillo this book is hilarious, witty, insightful and is full of those few and far between ah ha! moments.
It is compiled of question and answers using real questions women had with answers from a male and female dialogue.
Denial is a powerful self mechanism. Many women fi nd themselves too blinded by their infatuation to consider their feelings may be one sided.
This exert from the book breaks it down and explains why men just canʼt be honest and admit they are not that into you:
“Men are not complicated, although weʼd like you to think we are,” says the book.
“We are driven by sex, although weʼd like to pretend otherwise: And sadly (and most embaressingly), we would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, “Youʼre not the one.”
We are quite sure you would kill us or yourself or both—or even worse, cry and yell at us.
We are pathetic. But the fact remains, even thought we may not be saying it we are absolutely showing you all the time.
If a dude isnʼt calling you when he says he will, or making sure you know that he is dating you, then you already have your answer. Move, on sister! Cut your losses and donʼt waste your time.
Wow.
These writers hit the proverbial nail on the head over and over with this boy vs. girl gospel without offense, while even building self-esteem through a revealing look into understand men.
It has been fl ying off the shelves ever since Oprah gave it her stamp of approval. I recommend this book to both men and women.
