Posted on 07/11/2010 8:19:37 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry
Taking the family to NYC next weekend and the wife is a total foodie. She wants to know the best pizza in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Help.
Regarding places with Italian names, you may want to check behind the counter too. Some of those guys don’t look like a Tony, Joey, Vinny, or Frank if you get my drift. Especially when the women working with them have head scarves and ain’t NY natives. I’m just sayin’. When you get to NYC, ask any cop on the street, especially if his name ends in a vowel, he’ll suggest a couple of places. Guaranteed.
BINGO! Now if you ask which pizza is best in Chicago I'd have to say Gino's East. But the only bad pizza is pizza at chain restaurants.
But one concern might be the transfat ban (haven’t been there recently). If that is wrecking the pizza, then definitely hop the train to New Jersey and get real pizza.
V & T Pizzeria
15 reviews
(212) 663-1708
1024 Amsterdam Ave (Between 110th Street and 111th Street)
New York, NY 10023 40.8033 -73.9638
Excellent pizza! Up near Columbia University.
http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/11349683/new_york_ny/v_t_pizzeria.html
You could always save the air fare, get an old dirty cardboard box, cut a desired size outta it, slap some tomato sauce on it, drip a little melted cheese and baddabing NY pizza.
I don’t know. The best pizza I ever ate was in Croatia.
Lombardi’s Pizza,
32 Spring Street. claims to be America’s first pizzeria. My one experience there does not inspire me to want to return. The pizza was below average and the service worse.
Just make sure it’s CHEESE!!
DO NOT eat your pizza with a fork and knife!!!! You fold the slice!
Comparatively speaking, any place that is not a chain will have great pizza!
If you go past Queens into Nassau County I can help your out.
There is no good pizza in New York City. If you want good pizza take the train to New Haven and then take a cab to Zuppardi’s just south of Main Street and Union Avenue in West Haven. Or take a cab to Wooster Square in New Haven and try Sally’s pizza. Nothing in New York can compare to New Haven pizza.
Do you like your crust limp like a washcloth yet has the toughness of Kevlar?
Do you like your sauce airbrushed on?
Do you prefer cheese that typically just slides off and burns your mouth?
Do you like to fold your pizza over into a wad, ostensibly so you don’t have to endure the lack of taste for any length of time while you grind down your teeth on the leathery goodness?
If so, any pizza joint in NYC will do just fine. Just walk along the sidewalk till you see some place that’s name ends with a vowel. In the window you should see a cold piece of cardboard in a pie wedge shape that was heated the first time in the last 24 hours. Ask the shop owner to burn the bottom for you, hand him $4 and it’s all yours!
DiGiorno
Rays?
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JERRY: What’s around you?
KRAMER: I’m lookin’ at Ray’s Pizza. You know where that is?
JERRY: Is it Famous Ray’s?
KRAMER: No. It’s Original Ray’s.
JERRY: Famous Original Ray’s?
KRAMER: It’s just Original, Jerry!
JERRY: Well, what street are you on?
KRAMER: Hey, I’m on first and first. How can the same street intersect with itself? I must be at the nexus of the universe.
JERRY: Just wait there. I’ll pick you up, and, Kramer, stay alive no matter what occurs, I will find you!
KRAMER: Aah!
Well, the top 500 neighborhood places are all very close to each other, and there’s no such thing as “the best”, given all the different styles and tastes.
HOWEVER
I, total NYC pizza snob that I am, like DiFara:
1424 Avenue J, Brooklyn NY 11230
718-258-1367
~ cash only ~
Find a restaurant that serves Chicago style pizza.
Montana’s in Freeport! Umberto’s in Elmont!
Ditto
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