{"id":3277,"date":"2021-03-15T15:54:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T15:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatmcr.co.uk\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2021-03-31T08:52:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T08:52:42","slug":"how-the-motor-city-took-over-manchester-detroit-pizza-is-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatmcr.co.uk\/culture\/how-the-motor-city-took-over-manchester-detroit-pizza-is-here-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Motor City Took Over Manchester: Detroit Pizza is Here to Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the\u00a0beginning of 2020, Manchester’s emerging pizza scene had become robust yet notoriously Neapolitan.\u00a0Barely a crust in town was torn that didn’t originally hail from the Amalfi Coast and it was difficult to see how this obsession with San Marzano’s and\u00a0fior di latte would ever cease.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But, as with all things 2020, something totally unexpected reared its head and completely changed the game.<\/p>\n

In February, Nell’s began to swerve everyone’s attention towards their paper plate drooping (and very substantial) New York slices, converting a corner of the Northern Quarter into deepest Brooklyn. However, come September, a much more Mid Western style of pizza motored into Manchester, catching us all off guard, in a manner typically befitting of its hometown.<\/p>\n

Between Ford, General Motors, Motown and Iggy Pop, Detroit has made a habit of flipping pop culture on it’s head, both on the roads and the airwaves, as an automotive and musical colossus of a city. But food isn’t ordinarily something that people outside of the Motor City associate with it. Yet as the autumn of 2020 approached, some cheese crowned focaccias from Failsworth were catching fire in a big way, thanks to Frank Brashaw and Danny Broadbent and their pandemic pizzeria, Corner Slice<\/a>.<\/p>\n