Totonnos, One of the Best Brooklyn Pizzas, has reopened.

Just wen't to Totonnos for the first time since the fire. It was as perfect as always. The place was as charming as always and Neptune Ave is still the same, a dump.

Totonnos and diFara's are the only two great, old-time Brooklyn pizza places that are still around. (At least that I know about.)

L&B's is still good but doesn't, in my opinion, qualify as great. New places such as Lucali's in Carroll Gardens are excellent too but they lack the history.

I fear that when Dominic at diFara's passes on that diFara's will be no longer. Totonnos is one of the places that should remain for another generation.

For you out-of-towners here's a negative review:

"Like a big tortilla chips with chesse and sauce. More garlic than bread, and more sauce exists in a ketchup pack. If this is the way pizza was made in the good ole' days, destroy the time machines now."

Pizza, at it's best, is a sublime blend of a tasty, chewy AND crispy dough; delicious tomato sauce and mozzeralla. (I like it best with fresh basil.) If one of the three overwhelms the other then the TASTE experience is diminished.