North End Grill: Bacon + Peanut Butter = Pizza

Snag a seat, before one of the suited post-bell Goldman guys, at one of the half-dozen tables in the bar area and you'll be rewarded with a fairly reasonably priced assortment of bar bites. There are grilled mushrooms that are balanced with a tangy dash of vinegar and cubes of compacted ground chorizo atop honey-soaked toast, but look beyond the tacos for what may be the most innovative pizza in New York. Or at least the most bacon-y.

A personal-size pizza is topped with crunchy bacon crumbles -- the real stuff, not bacon bits made of fabricated chemicals. But the brilliance is in the condiment. Shmear the provided peanut butter onto each slice for a topping that would make Elvis swoon, and could convince an Upper East Sider to traverse the subway system to this former food-no-man's-land for a hot Saturday night.

North End Grill, 104 North End Grill, near Murray Street, 646-747-1600, northendgrillnyc.com

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