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.
- 01
Joe's Pizza
West Village · 7 Carmine StThe 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.
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Prince Street Pizza
Nolita · 27 Prince StA 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.
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Scarr's Pizza
Lower East Side · 35 Orchard StA 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.