Dave Portnoy reviews the pizza at the Mozot de Vinnie in Lyndhurst NJ

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Dave Portnoy reviews the pizza at the Mozot de Vinnie in Lyndhurst NJ

Dave Portnoy, from Barstool, visited Mootz de Vinnie, a pizzeria from the county of Bergen, in May. He gave high marks to two pizzas.

The owner Vincent Morelli won local competitions for his mozzarella and his pizza.
The One Bord Pizza Review Review of Portnoy is massively popular, and a visit to the founder of Barstool tends to stimulate business.
Portnoy tried a Margherita Circle pie and a square tart at the Mootz in Vinnie.

Dave Portnoy de Barstool visited the Mootz from Vinnie to Lyndhurst on May 14 to film the last of its Uber One Pizza Critics and assess the local pizzeria slices.

Portnoy released two pies from the store – a circular margherita pie and a square pie. After changing a few bites of each (and putting a slice back on a passer -by on a mobility scooter), he gave the circle a slice of 7.8 and the square a 7.9. Good scores, in general.

Portnoy appreciated the “good rolling train” of the pies and the crisp and compared it to a pizza of shore style, citing the base of the unsuccessful tomato sauce.

Portnoy also seemed struck by the history of the owner Vincent Morelli. He entered the world of food by entering Hoboken Mutzfest in 2015 and winning the honors of the best homemade mozzarella. He then made small prizes, which turned into a chalet company, then a slightly larger brick and mortar operation where he added pizzas with his house mozzarella on the menu in 2022.

In the fall of 2023, Mootz de Vinnie won the best Pizza Bowl Pizza pie by Jersey Pizza Joints – a Facebook group with more than 100,000 members – beating a number of renowned pizza manufacturers.

During all this time, Morelli maintained her day job insurance insurance, a situation that Portnoy seemed to hope to resolve.

“Big guy, big story,” said Portnoy in the clip, before turning to Morelli and asking: “There is no number on the number of pizzas that we have to sell so that you no longer have to do insurance?”

Portnoy visited several pizzerias from North Jersey

Portnoy has visited more than 120 pizzerias in New Jersey over the years. Its highest rated pies are the Delucia in Raritan (9.4) and Delorenzo in Robbinsville (9.2). Of the hundreds of pizzerias, Portnoy examined nationally, the Delucia and Delorenzo are classified second and 11th in the general classification.

His best rated New Jersey pizzerias, for the record, are Pizza Hut in North Bergen (3.8) and Costco in Clifton (1.9).

In North Jersey, Portnoy gave high marks to Ralph’s in Nutley (8.9), the Pizzeria Calabria in Livingston (8.9), Angeloni in Caldwell (8.9) and Columbia Inn in Montville (8.8).

I questioned Morelli last year on his reflections on Portnoy and the prospects of his visit one day. Morelli told me that he appreciated the iconoclasm and entrepreneurship of the founder of Barstool, and that he would approach a visit to Portnoy when he approached anyone who came in his shop.

“What do you know?” I would treat it as a normal customer, ”he says. “If he comes, he comes. If he doesn’t do it, he doesn’t do it. This is his opinion, it’s his pizza. You like him in a different way, I love him in a different way. My wife is like” he will come, give you a 6.5, then what? “I really don’t give like -.

The taste of Portnoy tends towards a slim cracked crust (it will often hold a slice and will check if it maintains its rigidity towards the point), better if it is a little charred (and better still if this chariot comes from a coal oven), with a sauce and a tasty and well -fixed cheese which could be a little golden.

Portnoy said in the video that its 7.8 score on the Circle pie is “almost as high as you can get this style of pizza for me, really good”, and after trying the square pie, it would be its essential at Vinnie’s Mootz.

Matt Cortina is a food journalist for Northjersey.com/The Record. Join it at mcortina@gannett.com.

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