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Eight slice shops in Manhattan in 24 hours

One night trip to NYC, and hit up eight slice shops in Manhattan. I really just wandered around the aresa I happened to be in and got a slide in places that I had not had before. Here are my thoughts on each, in order.

  • Famous Original Ray’s Pizza – Good, typical, NYC slice. This one was a big cheese forward and tasted really good.
  • Abitinos Pizza – This one was pretty evenly balanced between crust, sauce, and cheese. Tasty.
  • MR Pizza – This slice had a spicy flavor to it, that I could not place. Different, but good.
  • Sal’s Pizza – This was delicious, and had the nicest folks working there. Very, very, good slice.
  • Green Oven Pizza – This was very cheese forward and was somewhat undercooked. This was OK but nothing to write home about.
  • iPizzaNY – Pretty heavy on the cheese. Good slice all around.
  • LA Pizza – Good slice, nicely balanced. Very good all around.
  • 2 Bros Pizza – One bite and this one went in the trash. Don’t waste your time or money.

by CaptainJeff

25 Comments

  4. ThatCoryGuy

    It’s been 14 years and 100 days since I’ve a an authentic New York slice… I’m jealous.

  7. Severe-Abroad-1992

    You gotta go to some better places young blood lol.

  8. WredditSmark

    Thank you so much for your effort and post, but damn did you hit a patch of complete blah pizzerias not a single one of them is a respected spot, but I respect the hustle only way to find the next hidden gem by actually getting your toes in the water

  11. Pizza_900deg

    I hope that everyone in this sub is looking carefully. Because those are photos of NY pizza. 99.9% of what people post here claiming is NY pizza is not. NY pizza is a crust stretched as thin as possible, flat at the edge, the least amount of cheese and tomato sauce possible and sprinkling of dried “italian” herbs under the cheese. It gets cooked as a whole pizza, cooled to room temp and cut into slices, then re-heated to order in the hot deck oven by the slice which crisps the bottom of the crust and causes the butter to separate from the cheese so there are pools of red tinted butter floating on top, served on a paper plate with a piece of wax paper. NY pizza is designed to be as cheap as possible to make money.

  12. majorfalice

    I feel like you went to all of the worst places lmao

  14. SeaworthinessOne8302

    They all look the same. Maybe a bit more cheese here or a bit more char there but whats the difference in any of them

  17. pixeldudeaz

    That particular Ray’s Pizza makes good pie!

  20. Ok-Entertainment5045

    Is it just me or do none of these look great

  22. RockinRodeo

    Rays is my favorite of the places I’ve been to

  23. BrassAge

    Hell yes, looks like a great time. Good on you for not going out of your way for the “best” and just grabbing whatever was nearby. All my favorite places from everywhere I’ve lived were little no-name spots nearish my normal routes, and I feel strongly that is how you fall in love with a place.

    Last time I was in NYC I grabbed a slice at the place I walked by, turned out to be Prince St. pizza and I fucking loved it.

  24. owengaff

    Dude, some people are giving you a hard time because there are better spots, but it’s kind of hard to find a bad slice shop in NY. 2 Bros is still mostly better than sold outside of NY unless you live in NJ or eastern PA.