A lovely cheese pizza just for fans of Home Alone? Two different pizza brands—Easy Street Pizza & Beer Garden in Chicago and Prince St. Pizza, with locations in New York, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, Dallas and other cities—are paying homage to the classic holiday film in December promotions aimed at “filthy animals” who love pizza.
Easy Street is celebrating the beloved Christmas classic throughout December with specialty pizzas, cocktails and movie-themed décor. Let’s just hope its delivery team doesn’t run into the same problem that sent Little Nero’s staffer bolting for his car in a panic.
The fictional Little Nero’s brand is now part of holiday lore, thanks to the McCaulay Culkin film, in which young Kevin McAllister orders a pizza for delivery, then pranks the hapless driver into thinking he’s run afoul of a gun-toting madman.
Throughout December, Easy Street has been offering Little Nero’s-branded boxes and an LTO menu that’s featured on the website.
Items on the Little Nero’s menu include:
- Keep the Change, Ya Filthy Egg Rolls: Italian beef, mozzarella and giardiniera wrapped in a crispy egg roll
- Old Man Marley’s Chicken Sandwich: Grilled chicken breast, provolone, mesclun greens, tomatoes and pesto aioli, served on herbed focaccia bread
- KEVIN’S!!! Fried Chicken Mac-n-Cheese: Described as “Not your Stouffers Mac-n-Cheese”
- Lost in New York: a 16” cheese or pepperoni/sausage pizza
- Home Alone Sundae: Vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, whipped cream and a cherry on top
Easy Street will also offer specialty Home Alone-themed cocktails like the Uncle Frank (Tin Cup whiskey, brown sugar simple syrup and black walnut bitters garnished with an orange peel and cranberry) and the What Kind of Mother Am I (Three Olives Vanilla Vodka, Luxardo coffee liqueur, Irish cream and Owen’s Espresso coffee).
Prince St. Pizza, meanwhile, isn’t going it alone for Christmas. It has partnered with Disney+ on its Home Alone promotion. It, too, will include Little Nero’s pizza boxes, a Home Alone-themed menu and a pizza called The Lovely Cheese pizza. That event, promoted as a pop-up, will run from December 10 through 17 at Prince St.’s Los Angeles and Chicago locations. The Studio City shop in L.A. will even grab attention with a Little Nero’s-branded delivery car parked outside.
Details about Prince St.’s LTO menu have not been released yet.
