America's First-Ever Pizzeria Celebrates 110 Years With 5-Cent Pies
What could be better than eating a brick oven-fired margherita pizza? How about if that pizza costs only a nickel?Lombardi's Pizzeria, America's first-ever pizzeria and number 34 on The Daily Meal's 101 best pizzas in America, is celebrating its 110th anniversary today. To commemorate the occasion, the Little Italy, New York mainstay will be offering five-cent small margherita pies — that's the original cost of a pizza at Lombardi's — March 19 until 11 p.m., or until the dough runs out. When was the last time your dinner cost five cents?
If this promotion sounds a little familiar, that's because Lombardi's ran the same promotion for its 100th anniversary in 2005. Back then, the pizzeria sold 2,500 pies, and they expect crowds to be even bigger this year: so big that the staff will be using barricades and security to keep the line moving.
"This time we're a little more prepared!" Lombardi's manager Gil Soto told AM New York.