Chef Rides Bike Then Insists Ancient Rum-Spiked Cheesecake Beats Avocado Toast
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- ā¢Chef Anthony Mangieri, named best U.S. pizza maker for 2025, spends his day off indulging in NYC culinary treasures.
- ā¢He enjoys a Sicilian cheesecake with rum-soaked sponge at Venieroās, then savors a multi-organ meat burger at Hearth.
- ā¢Mangieri stops at D. Coluccio & Sons for imported Italian staples and finishes at Casa Enrique with tacos and shrimp.
Chef Anthony Mangieri, crowned pizza kingpin of 2025, kicks off his NYC day off by cycling through the concrete jungle not for fitness, but to clear his head before shamelessly stalking Veniero's Pasticceria e CaffĆ©, where he's been carbo-loading on Sicilian-style cheesecake for over 30 years. This dessert is a boozy layered diva with rum-soaked sponge, maraschino cherries, cannoli cream, and pies crust that probably has more active molecules than your average gym membership. Then he swings by Hearth, ordering the Variety Burger ā made of beef heart, liver, brisket, bone marrow, and chuck ā a Frankenstein's meat monster topped with Italian cheese and onions in a love triangle no burger list dares mention. Next stop: D. Coluccio & Sons, purveyor of Italian cheese and tomatoes since '78, where Mangieri shops like a nobleman prepping for battle... or dinner. Finally, grilling through Casa Enriqueās kitchen with Chef Cosme Aguilar, Mangieri digs into tacos, enchiladas, and spicy shrimp so layered and thoughtful youād swear it took a PhD in flavor. His day off? Basically a culinary episode of The Amazing Race, but with more intestine and less sprinting.
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(1 of 3)Man kicks off day by biking around NYC just to fuel up on 100-year-old rum-drenched cheesecake and a Frankenstein burger. If craving six meats is wrong, Mangieri doesnāt want to be right.
Why just eat a burger when you can obliterate a cow's organ systems in one bite? Mangieriās Variety Burger is a horror movie for vegetarians.
This guy bikes his stress away then soothes it with rum-soaked sponge cake baked in an oven older than America. Priorities, anyone?
Source: Eater | Published: 4/20/2026 | Author: Emily Venezky
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