
Theres a new pizza boss in town, and it goes by the name of Daddy Green’s.
The pizza shop which opened August 17, on 352 Malcolm X Boulevard, by business partners Kolawole Ologundudu and Rodney Davis, is a welcomed addition to the fast-developing Malcolm X Boulevard business corridor.
Kola, 31, of Park Slope, borrowed the name Daddy Green’s from another pizza shop featured in one of his all-time favorite movies, The Last Dragon. The father of the main character, Bruce Leroy Green, owned a pizza shop called Daddy Green’s.
In the movie, Bruce Leroy searches for the “master” to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way, he must fight an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.
The name (and the movie) always stuck with Kola, long before owning his own shop was a notion. But once the notion became a possibility and the possibility became a reality, boom! There he had it: the perfect name.
We took the shop over from some folks who were here previously, said Kola. The pizza oven was in place, and it just seemed like a really viable business that we could do really well with.
When I was a kid, I thought the coolest person around was the pizza man, said Rodney, 34, of Far Rockaway, Queens.
A regular cheese slice will run you $2.50. The specialty slices, including yummy add-ons are $3.50, cooked to perfection by pizza-maker and friend, Super Mario.
Super Mario makes some of the best pizza Ive ever had, said Kola. As a life-long New Yorker, Ive traveled to different boroughs in search of the best pizza. And I was totally blown away when I tasted his recipe.
Were the home of the sesame seed crust and were the best pizza on this side of Brooklyn! We take on all challenges, Rodney said, with a boyish laugh.
Yes, well be waiting for you, said Kola, with the Ginsu knife and the glow!
They sound like they are having fun with this business. That’s cool. I’m coming in for a super Mario. Good luck fellows. Great reporting BKReader. Cheers.
Glad to see this business opening up! I live nearby and I’ll be around very soon. Love the whimsy…cant wait to taste the pizza.