FNYC StandardsSince 1965
Pizza Pilgrimages →Di Fara Pizza — Midwood
The DeMarco family's shrine — fresh-cut basil over every pie, worth every minute of the wait
Picks like this, every Friday
Seven things worth leaving the apartment for, hand-checked. One short email, free, one tap to leave.
More in Pizza Pilgrimages
- Totonno's — Coney IslandCoal-oven pies from the same family for a century — whole pies only, go early
- Denino's Pizzeria & Tavern — Port RichmondStaten Island's thin-crust benchmark — the garbage pie, then Ralph's ices across the street
- L&B Spumoni Gardens — BensonhurstThe upside-down Sicilian square, then a cup of spumoni at the picnic tables
- Louie & Ernie's Pizza — SchuylervilleA Bronx house-turned-pizzeria — the fennel sausage slice is the order
- Lombardi’s — NolitaAmerica’s first licensed pizzeria — coal oven on Spring St since the beginning
- John’s of Bleecker StreetCoal-fired institution, booths carved by generations — no slices, no reservations
- Patsy’s — East HarlemThe original uptown coal oven — a thin-crust slice at the counter is the move
- Arturo’s — Greenwich Village106 W Houston St · coal-oven pies with live jazz every night — the Village as it was