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The New York Post's Pi Day roundup for 2025 placed East Village Pizza alongside national chains — Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and others — as one of the best deals and specials in the country for March 14. The East Village Pizza entry stood apart from the rest of the list: while the chains were offering discounts on standard menu items, East Village Pizza was selling a one-day-only 24K gold-speckled Margherita pizza for $150 per pie. Same holiday, completely different ambition.

Pi Day — March 14, or 3.14 — has become a food event in large part because pizza is round and pies are round and the holiday lends itself to any establishment willing to participate. Most restaurants participate with discounts. East Village Pizza participated with a limited-edition luxury item that sold out on the day it was offered and generated coverage in the New York Post alongside brands with marketing budgets many times the size of an independent Manhattan pizzeria.

The 24K gold-speckled Margherita was not a gimmick in the sense of being all presentation and no substance. The base was East Village Pizza's best-selling Margherita: 72-hour cold-fermented hand-tossed dough, fresh in-house mozzarella, house-made tomato sauce, basil, olive oil. The edible 24-karat gold flakes were added to a product that was already excellent, not placed on top of something mediocre to distract from it. The $150 price point reflected both the ingredient cost and the exclusivity of a one-day-only offering available only as a whole pie with no slice option.

Frank Kabatas's willingness to launch a $150 pizza for Pi Day reflects the same creative confidence that produced the double-stacked pizza and the year-round heart-shaped pizza program. He identifies opportunities to do something genuinely different, executes them at the quality level that East Village Pizza's reputation demands, and the results tend to generate exactly the kind of coverage that brings new customers to 145 1st Ave long after the specific event is over.

The New York Post's Pi Day piece reached a readership that spans the entire New York metropolitan area and a national online audience, placing East Village Pizza in a list that also included every major pizza chain in the country. For an independent pizzeria in the East Village to occupy that space — on equal footing with Pizza Hut and Taco Bell in a New York Post roundup — is a reflection of the media presence that Kabatas has built through years of consistent quality and strategic creativity.

The 24K gold pizza is gone, available only on March 14, 2025. What remains available every day is the Margherita pizza it was built on — one of East Village Pizza's signature whole pies at $31.99 for an 18-inch version, made with the same care and the same ingredients, minus the gold. East Village Pizza is at 145 1st Ave, open daily from 11AM until 3AM and until 5AM on Fridays and Saturdays. Order online or call (212) 529-4545.