The List

Here's the list of memorable places I've eaten pizza from (in no particular order):

1. Pepperoncino's (5th Ave)

2. Patsy's (118th & 1st)

3. Patsy's (11th & University)

4. Totonno's (26th & 2nd)

5. Totonno's (81st & 2nd)

6. Totonno's (Coney Island)

7. Ray's (2nd & 94th)

8. John's (44th & 8th)

9. John's (Bleecker)

10. Bleecker Street Pizza (7th Ave)

11. No. 28 (near Bleecker)

12. DeMarco's (was on Houston, CLOSED)

13. Joe's (near Bleecker)

14. Abitino's (Bleecker)

15. Lombardi's (Spring St.)

16. Una Pizza Napoletana (12th & 1st; CLOSED)

17. Waldy's Wood-Fired Pizza (6th Ave.)

18. Luzzo's (1st Ave)

19. Nick's (94th & 2nd)

20. Nick's (Queens)

21. Sac's Place (Astoria)

22. Grimaldi's (Dumbo)

23. Angelo's (57th & 6th)

24. Di Fara (Midwood)

25. Franny's (Flatbush)

26. 5th Ave Pizza (5th & Union St.)

27. La Villa (5th Ave)

28. Anthony's (7th Ave)

29. Li'l Frankie's (1st Ave)

30. Gino's (Washington Ave)

31. Nino's (Franklin Ave)

32. Vinny Vincenz (1st Ave)

33. Monty's (Montague St.)

34. Two Boot's (Bleecker)

35. Two Boot's (Grand Central)

36. 33 (23rd & 8th)
37. Fornino's (Bedford Ave, Williamsburg)
38. La Pizza Fresca (20th & Broadway)
39. Graziella's (Vanderbilt Ave & Dekalb Ave)

40. Famiglia (Crap. Don't ever eat pizza from here.)
41. Lazzara's (38th b/t 7th & 8th; Square pie)
42. Serafina (somewhere in Midtown)
43. Celeste (Amsterdam Ave b/t 84th and 85th)
44. The Alligator Lounge (Metropolitan Ave., Williamsburg)

45. Pizzatown (5th Ave., Park Slope)

46. Isabella's Oven (Grand St., LES; CLOSED)

47. Dean's (85th St. & Broadway, UWS)

48. Lucali (Henry St., Carroll Gardens)
49. Toby's Public House (South Slope/Sunset Park)
50. South Brooklyn Pizza (Court St. & 3rd Pl., Carroll Gardens)

51. Co. (24th & 9th)
52. Kesté (Bleecker)
53. Artichoke Basille (14th & 1st)
54. Pizza Mezzaluna (W. Houston; MacDougal)
55. Motorino (Graham Ave., Williamsburg; CLOSED)
56. Motorino (East Village)
57. Rose & Joe's Bakery (Astoria)
58. Rizzo's Fine Pizza (Astoria)
59. The House of Pizza & Calzone (Carroll Gardens)
60. Tomato & Basil (Park Slope)
61. Paulie Gee's (Greenpoint)

Plus a number of other corner slice shops that dot the cityscape.

To do list:


Best Pizza
Totale
Olio e Piú
South Brooklyn Pizza (Manhattan)
Artichoke Basille's (Westside)
Rose & Joe's Italian Bakery
Donatella's
Roberta's
San Marzano
L&B Spumoni Gardens
Arturo's
Leonardo's
+ more!

My current top 10 (in order):

1. Di Fara (excruciatingly long waits for works of edible art)
2. Motorino (wood oven, crisp and tensile crust, delicate buffalo mozzarella— and excellent gelato!)
3. Grimaldi's (coal oven perfection, quality pepperoni, and root beer)
4. Anthony's (homemade cheese, amazingly delicious crust like fresh bread)
5. Nick's (wood-fired, crust quality varies, excellent pepperoni, all in the exotic locale of Queens)
6. Artichoke Basille (the square. really. it's that good. crisp, rich, oily.)
7. Totonno's (the most consistently made pizza, paper thin crust, smokey coal oven)
8. Pizza Mezzaluna (wood-fired, Neapolitan-inspired)
9. Lombardi's (America's first licensed pizzeria)
10. La Villa (the DOC is wood-fired new york-italianess; bonus!: delicious house salad)