Pizza Cone Is Latest Food Trend Catching On In Pittsburgh

CBS Pittsburgh ^ | May 2, 2014

[nickcarraway]

Customers stop by for pizza cones – that’s right, pizza cones – at a new shop in Squirrel Hill called Pizza Cono.

Jamal Rifai scoops the ingredients into cones of pizza dough while Mike Rifai takes the orders and Joe Rifai visits with customers.

The three brothers from Jerusalem say they discovered the concept on a visit to Italy.

The cones use less dough than traditional pizza.

“We take this cone and fill it up with fresh ingredients,” Joe says. “Pepperoni, sausages, all the meats, all the fresh vegetables. We even have some gourmet cones that we make, like the chicken fajita that you see over here that’s made of fire-roasted peppers and onions. And we also have cheeses and roasted chicken.”

You can also create your own.

The brothers say the shop in Squirrel Hill may be the first of its kind in the U.S. People enter out of curiosity, and stay as customers.

“They just want to see what this means, that pizza’s not flat anymore,” Mike says. “This is not really clicking to their heads. So they come in and say, ‘That’s amazing, it’s not flat anymore.’”

The brothers hope this will be the first of many Pizza Conos.

Mike says they take their cue from a 6-year-old customer, whose mom asked him, “’Which do you like more, the pizza cone or the ice cream?’ So, he looked and he said, ‘I like this better.’ And then he thought a bit, and said, ‘But I like ice cream, too!’”

[nickcarraway]

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

That’s even better than “Pizza in a Cup!”

[workerbee]

The cones use less dough than traditional pizza.

Less sauce, too, I hope!

Fun idea. Like an open-ended calzone, I guess.

[prisoner6]

Pittsburgh...always years late and dollars short.

[MinorityRepublican]

Ate it the first time in Brazil.

[TomGuy]

Pizza cake was the topic of a recent thread.

It didn’t look much more appetizing than the pizza cone does.

[Gefn]

I liked the pizza cake you posted last week better. That was a 10. This is a nine?

[4yearlurker]

When Steve Martin said that in “The Jerk” I always thought “that sounds good to me!”

[Safetgiver]

Yum.. Pizza cone and Vitamin I (Iron City beer).

[FlJoePa]

They consider Primanti’s fine dining.

[CitizenM]

You must not know very much about the ‘Burgh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o75yBx8XBK0

[RegulatorCountry]

Cut a calzone in half, shove a stick in the closed end. Voila. Pizza on a stick.

[BlueDragon]

When the moon hits your eye
Like a-big pizza pie
cone?

[prisoner6]

Oh, I “live” here. Talked about the pizza cone maybe a decade ago. My reverse charisma kicked in and whenever I mentioned it I was ridiculed.

Yes, I am bitter.

[Dr. Sivana]

Talked about the pizza cone maybe a decade ago.

You have no business calling it pizza.

[Yardstick]

Not a problem. Rhyming is old school.

[BlueDragon]

Not a problem. Rhyming is old school.

That's retarted sir?

[Yardstick]

Not at all. I was fine with the first tart.

[Mount Athos]

pizza cone is only a baby step of progress. This is a much bigger step.

[RedMDer]

FReepers! Charge!

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