Best Pizza on Staten Island
The definitive top 10 pizza spots on Staten Island for 2026, Denino's, Joe & Pat's, and Lee's clam pie lead a list that also makes room for a coal-fired newcomer and a world-champion pizzaiolo.
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- 1Port Richmond · $ · 524 Port Richmond Ave, Staten Island, NY 10302
Also No. 1 on Best Hangouts in Staten Island → · No. 6 on Best Pizza in NYC →
A 1937 tavern-turned-pizzeria on Port Richmond Avenue, still run by the same family four generations later out of the same storefront.
Everyone on Staten Island has an opinion about pizza, and nearly all of them start here. The crust holds its shape at the tip and shatters at the edge, a balance most kitchens never quite land.
Order The M.O.R., meatball, onion, ricotta.
Order more pie than you think you need; portions are thin enough that two people go through one without noticing. Ralph's Famous Italian Ice is right across the street for after.
Photo: H.L.I.T., CC BY 2.0 Photo: H.L.I.T., CC BY 2.0 - 2Castleton Corners · $$ · 1758 Victory Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10314
Also No. 9 on Best Pizza in NYC →
A Castleton Corners institution since 1960, opened by two brothers from Naples and widely credited with codifying the flat-edge, cracker-thin Staten Island style.
The crust is rolled thin enough to see light through, yet the sauce still caramelizes at the bare edges where the cheese doesn't quite reach, a trick most places spend decades chasing.
Order The vodka pie, or the Tri Pie split three ways with pesto swirled in.
Get the vodka pie fresh out of the oven rather than reheated; it has a narrow window where the sauce is at its best, and weekend nights sell through it fast.
@joeandpats ↗Joe & Pat's Pizzeria & Restaurant
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- 3Dongan Hills · $$ · 60 Hancock St, Staten Island, NY 10305
Also No. 4 on Best Hangouts in Staten Island →
An unmarked corner bar in Dongan Hills that's poured pizza and beer since 1940, no sign out front, just a line of regulars who already know where to turn.
The white clam pie belongs to the short list of dishes that define a whole borough's food identity, and it earns that status honestly: briny, garlicky, no cheese to hide behind.
Order The white clam pie.
It's a bar first and a restaurant second, expect a wait for a table on weekends, and don't be surprised if dinner happens on a barstool.
Photo: Jeffrey Tastes, CC BY-SA 2.0 Photo: Jeffrey Tastes, CC BY-SA 2.0 - 4Port Richmond · $ · 750 Port Richmond Ave, Staten Island, NY 10302
A cash-only Port Richmond corner shop open since 1975, known equally for its thick Sicilian squares and its cracker-thin regular pies.
Brother's plays both ends of the crust spectrum better than almost anyone on the island, the Sicilian slice is dense and buttery underneath, the regular slice snaps clean. Few places commit to both without picking a side.
Order The Sicilian square slice.
Bring cash; there's no card reader, and it's a real cash-only operation rather than a soft preference.
@brotherspizza_si ↗Brother's Pizzeria
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- 5Silver Lake · $$ · 977 Victory Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10301
A small, design-forward pizzeria now anchored in Silver Lake, built around an almost century-old family dough recipe dressed up with contemporary, sometimes unexpected toppings.
DOUGH treats the crust like a canvas rather than a delivery vehicle for cheese, a wafer-thin base that somehow carries bechamel, wild mushrooms, and Peruvian peppers without going soggy by the second slice.
Order The Purple Rain, bechamel, smoked mozzarella, wild mushrooms, Peruvian peppers.
This isn't a walk-in-and-wait spot; seating is tight and the specialty pies take longer to fire, so call ahead or plan on takeout if you're pressed for time.
@doughsilverlake ↗DOUGH by Licastri
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- 6Annadale · $$ · 839 Annadale Rd, Staten Island, NY 10312
An Annadale pizzeria run by competitive pizzaiolo Lenny Giordano, who makes dough fresh every morning and treats toppings the way a tasting menu treats courses.
Competition pizza chefs usually chase flash over flavor; Mona Lisa's Gold Medal pie, mushroom, cognac cream, truffle oil, is the rare case where the medals actually explain the taste.
Order The Gold Medal pie.
Can't decide between red and white? Ask for it split down the middle, it's a house option the kitchen clearly runs often enough to get right.
@monalisa_si ↗Mona Lisa Pizzeria & Ristorante
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- 7Annadale · $$ · 6 Sneden Ave, Staten Island, NY 10312
An Annadale spot that treats the neighborhood square pie as a starting point, not a finished product, folding in figs, prosciutto, and vodka sauce.
The Notorious F.I.G. shouldn't work on paper, prosciutto, ricotta, figs, agave on a delicate crust, but it reads like a charcuterie board reincarnated as a slice, and it's genuinely craveable rather than just clever.
Order The Notorious F.I.G.
If you want something familiar with one twist rather than the full specialty-pie experience, the Drunken Grandma, a vodka-sauce take on the classic square, splits the difference.
@thepizzaparlor1 ↗The Pizza Parlor
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- 8Port Richmond · $$ · 1298 Forest Ave, Staten Island, NY 10302
A newer coal-oven pizzeria on Forest Avenue that's quickly built a following for its 'Four Corners' pie and hand-piped ricotta.
An 800-degree coal oven does something a gas deck oven can't fake, the char lands in patches instead of an even ring, and the underside turns genuinely brittle rather than just crisp.
Order The Four Corners.
Can't settle on one topping? The Four Corners is built for exactly that indecision, four different combinations on one pie.
@ungarocoalfiredpizzacafe ↗Ungaro Coal Fired Pizza Cafe
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- 9New Dorp · $$$ · 278 New Dorp Ln, Staten Island, NY 10306
A New Dorp Lane pizzeria run by Giorgio Giove, a multiple-time world pizza-championship competitor, serving red and white pies alongside rice balls and flatbread paninis.
This is pizza built by someone who's had to defend a slice in front of judges, the Variopinta is fussier than the average Staten Island pie, and it earns that fussiness.
Order The Variopinta.
Prices run a notch above the neighborhood standard, so treat it as the splurge stop on a pizza crawl rather than the everyday order.
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A Great Kills brick-oven pizzeria open since 1992, run by the shop that put vodka pizza on the national map.
Nearly every vodka pie in New York now traces back to a late-night accident in this kitchen in 1992. The original is still the version worth measuring everyone else's against.
Order The Pizza Alla Vodka.
Order the Alla Vodka on a first visit, judging Goodfella's by anything else means skipping the whole reason the place is known citywide.
@originalgoodfellas ↗The Original Goodfella's Brick Oven Pizza
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