New York · a Restaurant Pro list
The NYC slice crawl
Fourteen slices. Folded, standing, no fork.
The slice is New York's own fast food: a plain, sold one triangle at a time, eaten folded on the sidewalk. The new shops make it with better flour; the old ones make it exactly the way they did in 1975. Both belong on this list, and there is no wrong order.
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Pizza · New York · ★ 4.4 (10,614)
The slice against which every other slice in the city is judged. Carmine Street, since 1975.
Order: A plain slice
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New York · ★ 4.4 (9,219)
The Sicilian square with cupped pepperoni pooling their oil. Expect to queue on Prince Street.
Order: The Spicy Spring — the pepperoni square
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Pizza · New York · ★ 4.3 (4,907)
Scarr Pimentel mills his own flour in the basement. The slice tastes like it.
Order: A plain slice, and the Sicilian
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Italian · Brooklyn · ★ 4.6 (11,564)
Bensonhurst since 1939. The square with the sauce over the cheese, eaten in the parking lot.
Order: A Sicilian square, sauce on top, and a spumoni
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Pizza · Brooklyn · ★ 4.2 (4,706)
Dom DeMarco made every pie himself for sixty years. The family still finishes each slice with scissors and oil.
Order: A regular slice
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Italian · New York · ★ 4.1 (2,919)
Frank Tuttolomondo's Upper West Side counter, the shop that made the square a Manhattan thing again.
Order: The square with the crisp edge; the vodka slice
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Pizza · Brooklyn · ★ 4.4 (1,966)
The slice-only sibling of Greenpoint's famous pie room. Retro, cash-friendly, and better than it needs to be.
Order: The Hellboy slice, hot honey and soppressata
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Pizza · Brooklyn · ★ 4.5 (2,161)
Frank Pinello's Williamsburg shop from a Roberta's alum. The white slice is the reason it is on the list.
Order: The white slice
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Pizza · Brooklyn · ★ 4.7 (6,051)
A Williamsburg slice from a Florentine, the one that made the national lists in the 2020s.
Order: The burrata slice, and a plain
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Pizza · New York · ★ 4.4 (1,335)
The dollar slice, the New York lunch for everyone with a MetroCard and nothing else.
Order: A dollar slice — well, a dollar-fifty
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Pizza · New York · ★ 4.3 (3,209)
A slice that is basically artichoke dip on dough. Fourteenth Street since 2008, and it is exactly as heavy as it sounds.
Order: The artichoke slice
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Pizza · Brooklyn · ★ 4.3 (1,007)
A neighbourhood shop that made the grandma slice its own.
Order: The grandma slice
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Pizza · New York · ★ 4.5 (736)
Carroll Gardens' slice shop from the Frankies of Frankies 457. Old-school slice, new-school dough.
Order: The plain, from the Frankies
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