Gothamist: The Best Pizza...in Long Island

Jefferson Finney

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:10:37 -0500

Question for all of you pizza connoisseurs - any idea how many pizzerias in NYC use coal burning brick ovens?

Anthony

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:01:34 -0500

In the city it's Famous Bens on Spring St. for sicilian and Angelos on 57th btw 5th and 6th for thin crust. In Brooklyn its Difara's in Midwood for best regular slice. In Queens theres nothign better than New Park Pizza on Cross Bay Blvd. in Howard Beach. On LI it's Phils Pizza on Hicksville Road in Massapequa and Tarrallo's on Washington ave in Seaford for best regular slice.

Bobby

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:04:36 -0500

LITTLE JOES OF WHEATLEY HEIGHTS NEW YORK!!!!! WITHOUT A DOUBT

Alyssa

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:02:40 -0500

Little Joes Pizza of Wheatley Heights, New York is one of the BEST pizza i've tasted yet.. the pizza is amazing in every single bite you take. From the regular, to the sicilian, to the grandma slice.. it's absolutely fantastic.. you should try it!! 631.643.6012

bull

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:45:43 -0500

lots of good pizza joints out there ive had a few on the island the pie in port jeff coal fired ginos on portion road ronkonkoma Annas grandma pie is good over in smithtown sammys on 112 in coram lets just say pizza is da best food mkeep up the great work pie makers i will be out riding my harley lookin for the best of the island has to offer

Rick

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:46:02 -0500

Mannino's Pizza in Smithtown has the BEST pizza EVER, ALL KINDS! Marinara, Sicilian, Grandma, Regular, you name it, it is the best! I go all the way from Nassau county to get it!

gina colzaretti

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 16:28:06 -0500

gino's pizza in long beach new york is and will always be in my oppinion the best pizza i've ever ate...from Salerno Italy...my best to all to Gino's and Mike Causi...from your friend Gina ciao a tutti, a presto!!!

gina colzaretti

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 16:24:24 -0500

for me you will always have the best pizza in the world...!!!a big kiss from la bella Italia!!!ciao

Trish

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 09:02:50 -0500

Did you take any pictures of anything else at this event? I know there were contests and other things going on?

Joan

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:39:00 -0500

By Far Buccis pizza of East Patchogue has the best regular and grandma pizza around.

Jersey City Mafia

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:44:14 -0500

The Pizza Place across 7th avenue from FIT has Grandma Pizza.

Jonathan

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:36:22 -0500

There's a pizzeria in Howard Beach, a few blocks from JFK that makes an amazing grandma slice. By the way, Grandma Slices haven't "infilitrated" New York, unless by "New York" you mean "Manhattan." I've seen them all over Queens and Southeast Brooklyn and Staten Island since I was a kid.

Toby

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:35:00 -0500

Grandma pizza is sort of a square pizza and is a bit hard to describe, but tends to have cheese, onion and tomato. Tony's on Graham Avenue in Williamsburg has some good grandma pizza.

BURP !

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:50:45 -0500

Hey I bet they'd really go for this crap in Bangladesh & Sudan. It's not everyday they get to see some fat slobs ingest what probably equals a 5-year supply of food, all in just ONE sitting.

two.oh

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:01:34 -0500

interesting, but what would make it even more interesting is if they had a contest between the best pizza in the city. staten island pizzaria's would total pWN

Jessie

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:02:24 -0500

Oh crap, sorry I gave the wrong address for the 2nd time! Maffi's on 6th Ave & 22nd Street - go there!

Kevin Walsh

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:59:31 -0500

What the heck is 'grandma style pizza'? I have eaten pizza longer than anyone on the gothamist staff has been alive, and I've never heard of it... www.forgotten-ny.com

Jessie

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:58:31 -0500

Got it...Maffi's, and its on 21st & 6th THE GRANDMA SLICE WILL ROCK YOUR WORLD!

Jessie

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:54:26 -0500

The BEST Grandma Pizza is from the shop on the corner of 6th Avenue and 21st Street. I can't remember the name either and its KILLING ME! Does anyone else know what i am talking about? They also serve some killer calimari parmigiana. Ohhh, it is just so fucking good!

$kins

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:31:08 -0500

The best Grandma slice in the city is sold out of a pizza truck on the corner of Wall & Front St. The name of the truck escapes me, but there aren't any others around so you're not going to get confused. I have no idea how they do it considering the slices are cooked "on premises" - but they're 100% worth checking out if you ever find yourself downtown during your lunch break.

EricGewiz

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:14:57 -0500

I used to work in the East 50s, and there was a pizza place there that had grandma slices. Also, a few places in Park Slope have made grandma slices! They've definitely infiltrated the city!

tien

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:01:53 -0500

adam - cherrywood pizza wasn't there this year. and to me it seemed like the plain slices were very similar, except for one or two. for the contest, they had to eat all of the pizza. so that guy eventually started to eat the crust. he ate the pizza fast, but had a lot of crust left and ended up in 3rd place because of the crust. and marinara and grandma style pizza isn't seen much here in nyc, which is where i cut my pizza eating teeth.

Adam K.

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:53:45 -0500

Wait! In one of your pix it looks like the pizza-eating contestants they're leaving the end crusts behind. That's not eating pizza! Hmmmph.

Adam K.

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:48:02 -0500

Holy crap, Tien! I'm glad to see you survived. When I judged this thing in 2004, I made the mistake of eating the entire first two slices when I should have just taken strategic bites. Seemed a shame to waste food like that. I remember liking Cherrywood Pizza the most for plain slices, which I think is a better indicator of pizzeria quality than the specialty slice, which is the category all the pizzerias seemed dead set on winning.

EricGewiz

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:47:26 -0500

I love Vincent's in East Williston!

Spell, you retard

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:33:22 -0500

Hey Dumbass, the word is YOU. It's three letters. Just type that shit out. Otherwise, you sound like a dumb 10 year old or some stupid teenage girl.

why are u a judge?

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:28:43 -0500

u've never had a marinara or grandma style pizza before this contest???????