Recently, Chuck E. Cheese’s announced a new improved pizza. This wasn’t only for their Boca Raton location, but all across the country. I know many of you will say, well its about time they stopped serving us dog crap like pizza, the way Domino’s does, but is better crap still crap? Now, secretly,I liked their pizza and enjoyed many afternoons with my son playing games and eating pizza. I know this could completely negate any pizza advice I give in the future, but there was something about Chuck E. Cheese pizza growing up that made me think of happy and fun times, and I took this all the way into my adult life. Now, don’t get me wrong, as an adult, I realized this pizza was maybe a little bit better than some of the worst pizza out there like Domino’s, but I still liked going there anyways, as the experience of the place added a bit to the taste. For any parents out there who have to sometimes sacrifice fine dining for a childlike atmosphere, you will know the compromises you make when it comes to taste. Sometimes excitement makes things just taste better.

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Just about anyone can get into the pizza game nowadays. By all rights thay should, including McDonalds, and even Dunkin Donuts at some select locations. I’d like to think of Pizza the way a bond trader looks at a yield curve from the risk free excellence of Johnny’s Pizza in Mt. Vernon down to the junk one might find at Filippo’s in New Brunswick, N.J.

American Grills, French Bistros, Mexican Cantinas and, as hard to believe as I’ve just heard through the grapevine, Japanese Restaurants are edging artesian pizza in on the menu, yes you heard me right.

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In the first season of Sex and the City, only real New Yorkers knew that “the Church of Disco” was a real place, and that place was the Limelight. Like any club, it always seemed cooler in the past. I never went dancing there. I wasn’t that cool. I did attend a few artsy events in the converted church on Sixth Avenue, but it didn’t live up to the stories I’d heard from other people.

Despite any meaningful personal experience with the space, when the building was repurposed yet again last year, I was offended to hear that it had gone retail. Divided into booths like a flea market, most of the vendors sell pretentious, high-end, useless things. And they were sold out of the Rhubarb bitters I wanted.

When I heard that Grimaldi’s pizza was opening a satellite restaurant on the ground floor, I was conflicted. Was this evidence that the Once-best had turned into the tourist trap that many claimed? Would the Limelight pull out a velvet rope again?

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