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.
Ya gotta go about 900 miles west to Chicago.
http://www.patsyspizzeriany.com/
These two, forget the chains like Sbarro’s that are into mass production.
Also don’t bother with all the “Rays” pizza, greasy slop.
My advice? As soon as you get off the plane, walk to the ticket counter and book a flight to Chicago...for there is no pizza in NYC worth wasting your time on! ;)
regards,
I love a good pie fight!
Go to Jeff Varasano’s page.
http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm
Search for “Tier 1” in the page, multiple times, until you get to the Tier 1 table, and look for the NYC restaurants there.
Varasano gets it.
If you go to New York for Pizza, someone in Chicago will be enjoying this instead of you. I you have your heart set on thin crust pizza, then head to Iron River Michigan and go to The Riverside Pizzeria.
Also, you might find this useful.
http://slice.seriouseats.com/pizza-maps/
It has maps of pizzerias that Slice has reviewed, by borough.
Longroom nyc is an Irish bar and restaurant has a nice
reasonably priced menu.No pizza,but they have Leffe blonde on tap. Stay away from John’s Pizza on 44th-a tourist trap.
Great place for burgers-5 Napkin burger.
Cheapin out? }:~)
Two Brothers Pizza!
I don’t know how to tell where it is but, I know how to walk to at least two of their locations.
Google it.
Quick, delicious and variety.
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