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Post by dwarfoscar on Aug 17, 2018 18:16:48 GMT -5
Are there any New Yorkers or New York savvy people around these parts ?
I'm going to be in New York next October and I want to try me some of that New York Pizza. Is there any place you'd recommend ? I want to try a good pizza place, but not a "so-good-the-place is-constantly-crowded" pizza place either. I'm OK with pretty good pizza rather than amazing pizza if that means having the possibility to have said pizza at a reasonable time...
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Aug 18, 2018 18:32:22 GMT -5
I'm guessing by "New York" you mean "Manhattan"? It's tough to get a bad slice of pizza, really, even at the 50,000 "Ray's Pizza" places.
Lombardi's on Spring Street in Little Italy is the supposed birthplace of pizza, but it is coal-fired (as is John's Pizza, another old-school joint), which is an entirely different taste. I actually like Famous Famiglia, but they were also two blocks from my high school and that probably biased me. Joe's in the West Village is pretty good, and is supposedly the apotheosis of NYC-style pizza.
Supposedly to get the actual best pizza in NYC you'd have to go into Brooklyn, but I never tried (I grew up in Queens and went to school (as mentioned) in Manhattan). There's a place in Queens that has really good pizza but you'll need either a car (which you won't want to have) or a long subway ride and a bus ride (which you won't want to do).
There's a pretty good place in Staten Island, but you're not going to Staten Island.
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Post by ganews on Aug 19, 2018 18:04:49 GMT -5
With a whole city full of options for buying the most overrated form of pizza, it's hard to choose just one! But get something thin instead of the classic NY slice of folded grease. I have been to Lombardi's in Little Italy which I remember as being good, but from the succeeding ten years of the fired thin crust boom I no longer remember any particular details about the place.
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Post by dwarfoscar on Aug 19, 2018 18:34:29 GMT -5
Thank you Crash Test Dumbass, that's a lot of useful informations. You're correct in your assessment that I'll exclusively spend my time in Manhattan. Nothing prevents me from wandering around the other boroughs, but we already have a tight schedule. I assume you only give a half-recommendation for the Little Italy pizza places because, as good as those coal fired pizzas might be, they're not what is considered New York pizza ? We might try Joe's Pizza. Thank you too ganews. I'm bound to find some New York things overrated. Might as well be just pizza rather than, you know, the Empire State Building or something... |
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Aug 19, 2018 19:28:35 GMT -5
With a whole city full of options for buying the most overrated form of pizza, it's hard to choose just one! But get something thin instead of the classic NY slice of folded grease. I have been to Lombardi's in Little Italy which I remember as being good, but from the succeeding ten years of the fired thin crust boom I no longer remember any particular details about the place. This times one hundred - thin crust pizza is so good Also practice eating pizza in a respectable fashion (read: not with a fork) so no one rolls their eyes at the goddamned tourists EDIT: For reference I did grow up in Brooklyn - and in the south part with the heavy Italian-American presence to boot - but I don't think any of the pizza parlors I went to growing up were very good, and also South Brooklyn is a bit of a dead zone culturally if I'm being honest. |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Aug 20, 2018 13:16:58 GMT -5
. I assume you only give a half-recommendation for the Little Italy pizza places because, as good as those coal fired pizzas might be, they're not what is considered New York pizza ? We might try Joe's Pizza. You assume correctly. They're worth trying for historical reasons, but don't try them first. |
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Post by Pastafarian on Aug 21, 2018 10:59:13 GMT -5
I've not been in NYC in quite some time, but remember Motorino being very good.
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Post by dwarfoscar on Nov 27, 2018 7:21:20 GMT -5
Update on that :
So I did go to New York and I did follow some of your advice. I loved Joe's Pizza (is there always a guy dressed as Spiderman walking around or just that day?). I also tried Lombardi's and thought it was fine but nothing too memorable (maybe it's because I'm already accustomed to coal-fired pizzas).
I appreciated the suggestions!
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Nov 28, 2018 10:42:15 GMT -5
Update on that : So I did go to New York and I did follow some of your advice. I loved Joe's Pizza (is there always a guy dressed as Spiderman walking around or just that day?). I also tried Lombardi's and thought it was fine but nothing too memorable (maybe it's because I'm already accustomed to coal-fired pizzas). I appreciated the suggestions! You didn't call, you didn't write? If it was the beginning of October, then you were in New York Comic Con territory, which would explain the Spiderman. If it was a different time, well, um, NYC does love it some Spiderman. |
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Post by dwarfoscar on Nov 28, 2018 17:24:16 GMT -5
Update on that : So I did go to New York and I did follow some of your advice. I loved Joe's Pizza (is there always a guy dressed as Spiderman walking around or just that day?). I also tried Lombardi's and thought it was fine but nothing too memorable (maybe it's because I'm already accustomed to coal-fired pizzas). I appreciated the suggestions! You didn't call, you didn't write? If it was the beginning of October, then you were in New York Comic Con territory, which would explain the Spiderman. If it was a different time, well, um, NYC does love it some Spiderman. It WAS during Comic-con (we actually hanged around the Jarvits Center to look at some cosplayers). Yes, good explanation. OBVIOUS explanation, now that I think of it  |
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