Barstool Pizza Review - Coniglio's Old Fashioned (Morristown, NJ)
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00:00So what is this one called?
00:22That's a Brooklyn Ralph.
00:23Brooklyn Ralph.
00:24Yeah.
00:25That's just here in New York?
00:26What is that?
00:27I only came out with this like three months ago.
00:30It's called the Plain Regular Cheese Pizza Pie.
00:33Which is what I generally like.
00:35Wow.
00:36Well, yes.
00:37Wow.
00:38You told me to try this one, I'll try this one.
00:41Alright.
00:42Alright.
00:43We gotta go away?
00:44No, you, whatever.
00:45I know.
00:46I'm gonna go away.
00:47I'm not staying in the crowd.
00:48Like he's gonna go away.
00:49That's what I do.
00:50If I tell him to go away, he's not going away.
00:51Never does.
00:52Is this yours?
00:53No.
00:54That's yours?
00:55Yeah, that's mine.
00:56Yeah?
00:57Alright.
00:58Alright.
00:59So, Coniglio's finally getting more sound.
01:02Nino, how long have we known each other now?
01:06Long time.
01:07It's been...
01:082017.
01:09Is it?
01:10Now, yeah.
01:11It's been the same time we met.
01:12Yeah.
01:13Why don't you get in here?
01:14Well, I can answer the question.
01:152017.
01:16So, it's been a while.
01:17It's been a while.
01:18So, we even came close to opening up, telling a story.
01:21We were almost doing a pizza place together.
01:23I wanted a very basic bar pizza.
01:26We were doing these tastings.
01:28He wouldn't listen at all to what I wanted.
01:30He's like, you're gonna make it all...
01:31But then I decided to.
01:32No.
01:33At the end.
01:34No.
01:35No.
01:36I got there.
01:37No.
01:38He's like, I'm too...
01:39You're not gonna have me make a basic pizza.
01:40I waste my skills on this basic pizza.
01:41He wanted to do it.
01:42We go back and forth.
01:43I've known him forever.
01:44Came to Pizza Fest.
01:45And he's a legend in the pizza game.
01:46Finally made it out here.
01:47The place is spectacular.
01:48We have all the footage.
01:49Wow.
01:50What's up, bro?
01:51What's going on?
01:52Alright.
01:53What do you want?
01:54You want a little tour?
01:55Let's do the tour.
01:57No.
01:58We already ordered the pizza.
01:59Everything's at 211.
02:00So we're doing multi-grain, olive.
02:01I didn't know you had this much going on.
02:02Bro, this is my dream.
02:03Everybody thought I was out of my fucking mind.
02:04I know you're out of your mind.
02:05They're like, how do you do 10 decks?
02:06Right?
02:07How do you do?
02:08And I'm like, I'm gonna tell you how I do.
02:09Like, come over to my place.
02:10I'll show you.
02:11And they're like, oh, oh, we can't spend this money.
02:12Blah, blah, blah.
02:13And I'm like, listen.
02:14You want to grow?
02:15You want to grow?
02:16You want to grow?
02:17You want to grow?
02:18You want to grow?
02:19You want to grow?
02:20You want to grow?
02:21They're like, oh, oh.
02:22We can't spend this money, blah, blah, blah.
02:23And I'm like, listen.
02:24You want to grow?
02:25You want consistent pizza at seven o'clock on a Friday when it's packed when your stones
02:30are cold?
02:31This is how you do it.
02:33All right?
02:34So these ovens are imported from Italy.
02:36They're steam-tube ovens.
02:37They're mainly used in the bakery industry, right?
02:40They replicate the exact thermal mass environment of a coal-fired oven.
02:45Okay?, that's why the bakery guys...
02:47So you need to do New Haven style?
02:48I could.
02:49It works.
02:50Why don't you? That's the best piece of the car.
02:53Because I'm not an expert at New Haven,
02:55I'm not going to fucking pretend to be.
02:57But one day, I don't know.
02:59Fine with me, you're saying-
03:00Maybe with your connections, maybe I can do it.
03:03Everything homemade, we just got the new stove,
03:07we just got this.
03:08Here's what we do that's a little different.
03:11Place is big.
03:12Yeah, but I'm fucking-
03:14I'm Bleach, I'm Robey the Flower.
03:15While you start a culture of poolish,
03:17this has been out since probably eight,
03:22nine in the morning.
03:23This will stay out for the rest of the night,
03:25and then I'll get a two-day fridge.
03:27How many hours are you here a day, a thousand?
03:29Yeah.
03:31All natural, we love it.
03:32Sourdough, this is the one I'm raising.
03:34This is locally milled, locally grown whole wheat.
03:40There's over five.
03:42Same thing.
03:43What time do you guys open?
03:44Seven.
03:46Seven in the morning?
03:47Yeah.
03:48What time do you close?
03:49We used to close at three, four a.m.
03:53You're here at-
03:55Yeah.
03:56I was here with a fucking matronello,
03:57with these fucking drunk kids,
03:59fucking beat them fucking down, they're fucking crazy.
04:03All right, all right, all right.
04:04Oh, wait, wait, wait.
04:05Wait.
04:06Got the dough wrong.
04:07So this is brass dye, Italian imported from Italy,
04:11pasta extruder.
04:12So starting on Monday,
04:13every one of our pastas will be made fresh
04:16from bucatini, spaghetti, everything.
04:19Right now, we use the de- to check out.
04:20What's the full menu then, local?
04:22Oh, it's fucking crazy.
04:23Let me get the starter culture.
04:25So most bread products,
04:26the way that they're made,
04:27when they just throw like a pound of yeast,
04:29it brings the glycemic index level up
04:31to like 20 points higher than pure sugar.
04:33That's why bread shit makes you fat.
04:35Once you add starter culture, pre-ferments,
04:38it brings it down with white flour, down to broccoli.
04:41And then almost every pizza you've ever had in your life
04:44that's New York style or New Haven or anything
04:47has chemicals that are illegal in China.
04:49We don't fucking use any of that fucking bullshit.
04:52So we serve a healthy product,
04:53a product of my 15-month-old daughter,
04:56you know what I mean?
04:57That you can eat and you can lose weight.
05:00All pizzas, chemicals are illegal in China.
05:03Not all, I said most New York style pizza
05:06and New Haven style unless the man has it.
05:09When do we get to eat the pizza?
05:11Uh, I don't know.
05:12One day.
05:14Pretty much what I, outside the place being way bigger,
05:19Nino's being Nino.
05:22Now he's forcing me.
05:23Also, shout out, because I don't respect
05:25a ton of opinions of the pizza game,
05:26but the Genovese guy from Jersey, I do,
05:30he's tried them all.
05:31He just recently, he's Genovese,
05:33said this number one spot in New Jersey.
05:36And he, our lists are almost identical.
05:39So it's a huge honor.
05:41And I even said on the way over,
05:42I go, I'm going to score this before I even eat it
05:45because there's no way I'm giving a below an eight.
05:47And I don't, so if I don't love it,
05:48I don't even want this guy in my asshole
05:51being like, you didn't give it, so.
05:52I'm going to go grab the baby.
05:53Yeah.
05:54He's sleeping.
05:55Yeah, he's truly one of the most well-known pizza guys.
05:59I'll say U.S. world.
06:01He's been doing this forever.
06:02I don't know how you're,
06:03he's opening at seven.
06:05Fresh bread, seven.
06:06When you, I was asking people.
06:08Never.
06:09Never.
06:09Never, we live here.
06:10So this is great.
06:18It's not my thing.
06:19I like that more than this,
06:21but you're making me eat this style.
06:23All right.
06:24What are you going to do?
06:25What do you mean you like this more than that, bro?
06:26I like me.
06:27I like that better.
06:28Like the father says basil.
06:29These other guys aren't basil.
06:30As we used to fight about.
06:32Yeah.
06:33I don't love the super art.
06:34I like basic.
06:35I know, I know.
06:36You're right.
06:37You know, but we argue about it.
06:39I tell him that to his face.
06:40Like, well, let me just do this.
06:41And the basil is like, well, I like it.
06:43Go for the crust.
06:44Take a bite of that one.
06:46This is still great.
06:48This is my part.
06:49No, no, no.
06:50Finish your review.
06:51I'm trying the other.
06:52All right.
06:55All right.
06:56Let me get out of this guy's way for a second.
06:57And I literally,
06:59so we're doing 10 to 15 pizza reviews today.
07:0210 minutes, 10 minutes, 10 minutes.
07:04We allocate, hey, 10 minutes here, 20.
07:06We had four hours and 30 minutes to allocate to Nino
07:09because I know Nino, I know you go in there
07:11and you're not getting out.
07:17See, I prefer this one, but they each their own.
07:20It is a legitimate eight.
07:23Hello.
07:26Yeah, look, look, I got the Brooklyn salsa.
07:28You gotta clean your palate out, bro.
07:30Why'd you throw a jacket on?
07:32Brooklyn salsa.
07:32Are you trying to be cool with the jacket?
07:34No, it's fucking chilly out here.
07:36What are you talking about?
07:37You got this.
07:38He also, by the way,
07:39he's making Coca-Colas with the syrup.
07:42He's putting the syrup in the things that,
07:44what do you think?
07:45They had a gun off back in the 1920s.
07:47What, 1920s coke?
07:48What?
07:491920s coke?
07:51Yeah, I was thinking 1920s coke.
07:53Old fashioned soda, pal, then.
07:56You gonna give me a clear coke?
07:59Coke syrup.
08:03That's how you're making cokes?
08:06Yeah, bro, what do you think?
08:07These always existed?
08:08What'd they do before that?
08:11I don't know why I didn't give it a thought.
08:15Five years took me to find these.
08:17I just got them.
08:19So we're in, like, back to the future.
08:23You know, it tastes like a 2020 coke.
08:28Yeah, coke don't change.
08:31What is this?
08:32What did you just give me?
08:33Salsa.
08:34Brooklyn Salsa water for the Brooklyn Salsa boys
08:36at Canarsie.
08:37It's like 1880.
08:38You had to cleanse the palate.
08:39It's good.
08:40Come on, you're fancy.
08:44All right, very good.
08:46I haven't scored this yet, right?
08:47Did you interrupt me?
08:49I'll go...
08:518.3?
08:54It's a great score, it's a great score.
08:56More importantly, come check it, he's got everything.
08:59The full menu, he's got chicken parm,
09:00he's got everything on there, beautiful spot,
09:02and truly one of the best people in the pizza game.
09:06So if you haven't had a chance to try it, do it.
09:08Nino, it's always, always a pleasure, my man.
09:12Smoking.
09:18It's great.
09:19I'm proud of you.
09:20Yeah, everybody's Barstool fans out here,
09:22they always say, like, when's Dave coming?
09:24When's Dave coming?
09:25And I'm like, oh, I'm gonna try to text him,
09:26but he doesn't like me.
09:29He said, he blocked my number.
09:31I didn't block it.
09:32I told him, we just, my phone got hacked.
09:34I have a new phone number, I had it like two weeks ago.
09:36He sent me, I didn't reply after Pizza Fest.
09:39He said, great job with Pizza Fest.
09:41I didn't reply.
09:42I'm sorry, I should've replied after that.
09:43I wasn't ignoring.
09:45You want an espresso?
09:46I'll have an espresso.
09:47It's espresso with vanilla gelato.
09:50You're being real fancy now.
09:52Don't tell, don't tell us, Valerie.
09:54I forgot, they don't want to make it, I think.
09:57They don't?
09:58I think so.
09:58Just came out.
10:00I just got the ice cream freezer.
10:02Anybody want pizza, by the way?
10:03I'm not eating at all.
10:04Will you take a picture with the birthday girl?
10:05Of course.
10:06You might just have to stand.
10:08Awesome.
10:09Thank you.
10:10Yeah, yeah, of course.
10:11Look, anybody need a picture?
10:12He'll take a picture, will you?
10:13I'm with you, I'm sorry.
10:14I want one.
10:15Yeah, let's go.
10:15I'll see you in a minute.
10:17Look at Dave Portnoy over here in Morristown
10:19taking pictures with people.
10:20What a great guy.
10:22Whoever said anything about Dave Portnoy,
10:26they don't know what Dave Portnoy.
10:27Raising $100 million for small businesses and shit.
10:32I'm a fan of the people, Dave Portnoy.
10:34That's right, thank you so much.
10:36Every week, new items, but this one keeps me on my toes.
10:39It's good.
10:40But you're mixing it, so it's gonna get cold fast.
10:43That's the only thing, right?
10:44What's that?
10:45No, you gotta take like a bite of the ice cream.
10:48You eat it with a spoon.
10:50I thought you went to Italy.
10:52I did go to Italy.
10:52I've never had like this.
10:55Yeah, it's cold.
10:57Yeah, it's a fucking affogato.
10:58I know.
10:58I don't know what an affogato is.
11:00When you said you want an affogato,
11:01I literally go, I don't know what an affogato is.
11:03Oh, okay, that's it.
11:03You don't like it?
11:04I'll get you another one.
11:05No, it is good.
11:06I'm just saying.
11:07Oh, I don't know.
11:08First ever affogato rating?
11:09What is that?
11:10It's good.
11:11He can't rate the affogato.
11:13He's never had one.
11:14Exactly.
11:14It's the best he's ever had.
11:15That's a big moment, then.
11:16I know.
11:17Hey, come here.
11:18Get her up.
11:19Yeah, I got you.
11:19All right, all right.
11:20All right, real quick.
11:22Real quick.
11:23I don't wanna break Dave's,
11:24Dave Portnoy's counts on too long.
11:27Where are we going?
11:28What are you doing?
11:29Clubhouse.
11:36What is this?
11:37Old world.
11:37Knights of Columbus.
11:39Why are we in here?
11:41Showing you a fucking clubhouse, Dave Portnoy.
11:43I kinda like you.
11:44It's your clubhouse?
11:45Yeah, I mean, I'm on one of the boards.
11:47This is where you like to turn.
11:48So what are you doing up here?
11:49Huh?
11:50You don't even have a TV, though.
11:51What do you mean we don't have a TV?
11:52I don't have a fucking TV.
11:54You don't have a TV?
11:54We don't have a TV.
11:56You don't even have your own pizza.
11:58Huh?
11:59Hmm.
12:01Yeah, throw that on the fucking garbage.
12:03Throw it out.
12:04Give me that shit.
12:06Get the fuck outta here.
12:08Fuck outta here with that nonsense.
12:09We're going down here now?
12:09Go down, go down.
12:11What are you, scared?
12:12I'm not, I don't know what you're trying to show me.
12:15This just looks like trash to me.
12:17We're in a fucking alleyway, bro.
12:19Hi, hi, hi.
12:20What are we doing?
12:21What are you doing?
12:22Showing you something.
12:23You wanna see it?
12:24I guess.
12:24Is this your spot, too?
12:25Wow.
12:27I didn't get swamped.
12:28No, you were wrong.
12:29I thought the reason was over.
12:30What do you think?
12:31I don't work all day, that's why.
12:32I know you work all day.
12:33You think, I don't work all day?
12:35I work all day.
12:35I ain't got time for this.
12:40See?
12:41See, I move quick, so you don't get bothered.
12:43You know, we got places we got.
12:47We got a fucking side alley, right?
12:49Yeah.
12:50You don't get fucking mobbed.
12:51All right, you know, it's good to see you.
12:53Hey, thank you so much for coming.
12:54Thank you.
12:55Hey, can you make sure I get on the one-way up?
12:58Yes.
12:59You wanna take any bread back with you?
13:01Dessert?
13:02Sourdough?
13:03I have to do 15 pizza reviews tonight,
13:05so it's like, I don't know.
13:07Thank you so much for coming.
13:09Congratulations.
13:09The place is way better than I even dreamed,
13:11so congrats.
13:12Thank you.
13:13It's so cool.
13:14See you guys.