Restaurant Review: Mels in Chelsea

Mel’s, a pizza place that opened in Chelsea in March, seems determined to show everybody a good time. Most pizza places accomplish this with pizza alone, but Mel’s doesn’t stop there. You pass from the front door into a dim tunnel, as if you were entering a nightclub. At the end of it, past the…

The Frozen Foods Brand Ipsa Branches Out to Pizza

Micah Fredman, a chef, and Joshua Brau, who worked in food sustainability, believe in frozen food. Since early 2020, their company, Ipsa, has been selling ready-to-heat preparations like Moroccan chicken, beef and kimchi stew, and pozole verde, of particularly high quality. Now they have introduced pizza. David Kay, a former Gramercy Tavern cook who has…