Taking the Children to pizza palace, is my sympathy gift to YOM.

Whatever the reason, I want to walk those streets to see again, if only in my mind's eye, the pizza palaces and candy stores with red, white and green signs hawking Sicilian slices and egg creams.

A few nights later, at the local pizza palace, I slipped a handful of sesame sticks into my bag.

An intimate trattoria in the heart of the Village, this is (a refreshingly affordable) part of Mario Batali's empire, a pizza palace, where thin pizzas are cooked on flat iron griddles till they crackle perfectly.

While its complexion is changing dramatically as pricey high-rises sprout farther north, it remains a mecca of budget dining spots of every ethnic stripe, from mom-and-pop Latin luncheonettes to trendy nouveau pasta and pizza palaces.

They opened a pizza palace in Beverly Hills called the California Pizza Kitchen.

Ocean City, for instance, is still dry, and its boardwalk, with homey amusements and endless custard and pizza palaces, is Americana at its sweetest.

Michael Carrino, all of 28, grew up in Nutley and learned to cook in pizza palaces before graduating from the Culinary Institute of America and moving on to hotel kitchens in Virginia and New York City.

No one hearing Mr. Haimovitz at CBGB could doubt his integrity and passion as he continues a 50-state tour that included a performance at a pizza palace in Jackson, Miss.