Best Pizza in Manhattan
The 10 best pizza spots in Manhattan right now, coal-oven, Neapolitan, square slice, late-night. Picked by locals, sourced from Eater, Time Out, and Infatuation.
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- 1West Village · $ · Houston St (1) · 7 Carmine St
Also No. 3 on Best Pizza in NYC → · No. 4 on Best of the West Village →
Map ↗verified 10w agoThe plain-cheese-slice authority of Greenwich Village, open since 1975 and operating on the same wide-fold formula that defined the New York street-corner pizza experience for two generations.
Because the slice is consistent at any hour of the day and any day of the year, the dough has structural memory you can taste, and you can stand outside on Carmine eating it without anybody watching.
Order Plain cheese slice, fold in half, eat standing.
Skip the line on weekends, it moves fast because nobody is ordering anything weird, and the per-slice price has barely moved in five years.
Photo: Rob Young, CC BY 2.0 Photo: Rob Young, CC BY 2.0 - 2Nolita · $ · Spring St (6) · 27 Prince St
Also No. 4 on Best Cheap Eats in Manhattan →
Map ↗verified 10w agoA Sicilian-style square-slice counter on Prince Street whose spicy soppressata pie went viral on Instagram circa 2019 and has somehow remained worth the line ever since.
Because the Spicy Spring square has a crispy underside, a thick airy crumb, and curled cups of soppressata that crisp at the edges in a way no other Manhattan square slice consistently nails.
Order Spicy Spring square slice (the spicy soppressata pepperoni one).
Order ahead online if you want to skip the sidewalk wait, the app actually works and the pickup window is on the side of the storefront.
Photo: Rachel Kramer Bussel, CC BY 2.0 Photo: Rachel Kramer Bussel, CC BY 2.0 - 3Lower East Side · $ · East Broadway (F) · 35 Orchard St
Also No. 7 on Best of the Lower East Side → · No. 7 on Best Pizza in NYC →
Map ↗verified 10w agoA Lower East Side counter opened in 2016 by Scarr Pimentel that mills its own flour in-house, rare for a slice shop, and helped launch the modern New-York-slice revival.
Because the dough has a deeper toasted-grain flavor than anywhere else in this list, the pepperoni cups char correctly under the cheese, and the room itself looks like a 1976 set.
Order Plain cheese slice followed by the pepperoni square.
Sit in the back booth if you can, it is one of the few NY slice spots that doubles as an actual hangout instead of a takeout window.
Photo: Kidfly182, CC BY 4.0 Photo: Kidfly182, CC BY 4.0 - 4West Village · $$ · Christopher St-Stonewall (1) · 278 Bleecker St
Also No. 10 on Best Pizza in NYC →
Map ↗verified 10w agoA coal-oven whole-pie institution open in the same Bleecker Street storefront since 1929, with no slices, no reservations, and aggressively scarred wooden booths.
Because the coal char on the bottom of the pie is something a gas oven literally cannot replicate, the sausage is crumbled large enough to feel like dinner, and the whole experience is unchanged across four decades.
Order Half-sausage, half-mushroom whole pie with a side of garlic bread.
Bring cash and bring patience, they only take cards reluctantly and the wait at 7 p.m. on a Friday is what it is.
Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0 - 5Nolita · $$ · Spring St (6) · 32 Spring StMap ↗verified 10w ago
Widely cited as the first pizzeria licensed in the United States, the storefront on Spring Street has a coal oven and a 1905 founding date that gets retold to every visitor.
Because no other place on this list can claim the founding-pizzeria title with the documentation Lombardi's carries, and the original margherita still tastes like the platonic baseline of the form.
Order Original margherita whole pie.
Go early in the afternoon if you want photographs without elbows in them, the dinner-rush tourist density is heavy because of the historical name.
Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0 - 6Lower East Side · $$$ · Delancey St-Essex St (F J M Z) · 175 Orchard St
Also No. 4 on Best Pizza in NYC →
Map ↗verified 10w agoAnthony Mangieri's Naples-purist whole-pie counter on Orchard Street, with five pies on the menu, no toppings to speak of, and a wood-fired oven hot enough to cook a pie in 60 seconds.
Because Mangieri is one of the only American pizzaiolos whose dough fermentation, oven discipline, and ingredient sourcing actually match the AVPN Naples standard the rest of the city pretends to.
Order Margherita with a side of fior di latte.
Eat the pizza immediately when it lands, the cornicione (puffed rim) loses its open-crumb structure within four minutes of being out of the oven.
Photo: Transpoman, CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo: Transpoman, CC BY-SA 4.0 - 7Nolita · $$ · Spring St (6) · 235 Mulberry StMap ↗verified 10w ago
A Mulberry Street red-sauce restaurant whose tie-dye pie, vodka sauce, mozzarella, fresh mozz, became one of the most photographed slices in Manhattan after it appeared in the early Instagram era.
Because the vodka sauce on the tie-dye pie is genuinely cooked into the cheese rather than streaked on top as a garnish, and the crust holds up under the wet topping in a way most thin pies cannot.
Order Tie-dye pie, large.
Make a reservation a week out for any Friday or Saturday, walk-ins on weekend evenings are essentially impossible since the AJ Sacks era.
Photo: Cole Kennedy, Public Domain Photo: Cole Kennedy, Public Domain - 8East Harlem · $$ · 2287 1st AveMap ↗verified 10w ago
The original Patsy's on First Avenue in East Harlem, coal-oven, opened 1933, slice-and-pie counter that lawyers and uptown families have eaten at for ninety years.
Because the coal-oven char on a Patsy's slice has a smokiness that survives all the way to the takeout box, and the per-slice price is still calibrated for actual neighborhood diners.
Order Two coal-oven cheese slices to go.
Take the 6 train to 116th Street rather than driving, parking on First Avenue is genuinely impossible past 5 p.m. on most weekdays.
Photo: Paul Lowry, CC BY 2.0 Photo: Paul Lowry, CC BY 2.0 - 9West Village · $$ · Christopher St-Stonewall (1) · 104 Christopher StMap ↗verified 10w ago
The West Village outpost of Williamsburg's most-worshipped slice shop, and the reigning fancy slice of Manhattan.
Because the long-fermented crust blisters and crunches like nothing else in the borough, and the burrata slice converts skeptics on the first bite.
Order Burrata slice, eaten immediately, before the burrata can slide.
Order a whole pie to skip the slice line.
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- 10Hell's Kitchen · $$ · 50 St (C E) · 309 W 50th StMap ↗verified 10w ago
A Hell's Kitchen Neapolitan-leaning pizzeria from the same family behind Naples' Pizzeria Starita, best known for the Montanara, a fried-then-baked pie that bridges Italian street food and oven pizza.
Because the Montanara is one of the few non-traditional pies on this list that actually justifies the technique, the brief deep-fry creates a crisp shell that the oven then puffs into something nobody else in Manhattan is doing.
Order Montanara Starita to start, then margherita.
Order the Montanara as a starter and a regular margherita as the main, splitting them across two courses lets the kitchen pace the bake correctly.
Photo: Lou Stejskal, CC BY 2.0 Photo: Lou Stejskal, CC BY 2.0
Good to know
- What is the best pizza shop in Manhattan?
- Our current #1 reflects a blend of editorial sourcing from Eater, The Infatuation, and Time Out, plus live community votes. It changes as votes come in — the rank you see today may not be the rank tomorrow.
- Where is the oldest pizza place in Manhattan?
- Lombardi's on Spring Street opened in 1905 and is widely credited as the first pizzeria licensed in the United States. It still uses a coal-fired oven.
- What style of pizza is Manhattan known for?
- Two styles dominate: the wide-fold New York slice (Joe's, Prince Street, Scarr's) and the coal-oven whole-pie tradition (Lombardi's, John's of Bleecker, Patsy's). Newer Neapolitan-style spots have pushed wood-fired Naples pies into the conversation since the early 2010s.
- How much does a slice of pizza cost in Manhattan?
- A plain cheese slice runs $3.50 to $5 at most counters. Specialty squares (Prince Street pepperoni, Scarr's Sicilian) climb to $7 to $9. Whole-pie spots are $25 to $35 for an 18-inch.