NYC is still the big cheese — at least when it comes to pizza.
On 50 Top Pizza’s list of best pizzerias in the US, New York digs held strong in 10 slots, including first place. For the third year in a row, the Lower East Side’s Una Pizza Napoletana maintained its No. 1 title as the best pizzeria in the nation, according to the food guide site.
Now located just off Orchard Street and in close proximity to highly acclaimed Scarr’s, Una Pizza Napoletana has quite the legacy. It started in New Jersey in the ’90s before relocating to the East Village and then out west to San Francisco.
Finally, hands-on owner and Yankee fan Anthony Mangieri opted to call the LES home in 2022.
“No one makes the dough in the restaurant, 25 years later, except for me,” the Jersey Shore native previously said. “Every single pizza that people eat, I still make the dough in the morning myself.”
Still, plenty of other big apple pies rounded out the top 50 list. Union Square’s Ribalta came in fourth place and Midtown’s Don Antonio won seventh.
Just across the Hudson in Jersey City, NJ was the 13th-ranked Razza — previously called the nation’s best.
NYC also laid claim to slots 15 through 17. First of those three was Houston Street’s tiny and Napoli soccer jersey-draped Song’ E Napule.
Its owner and football lover Ciro Ioevne rented a doubledecker bus to celebrate Italy winning the Euro in 2021.
Next was Kesté near the Brooklyn Bridge in FiDi, then Brooklyn’s Ops on the Bushwick and Ridgewood border.
Pizza Secret in downtown Brooklyn was 19, Salsa in Greenpoint was 34, Pasquale Jones of Little Italy took 39, and the UES’ San Matteo tied for 50th with Baltimore’s Angeli’s Pizzeria.
Williamsburg’s posh L’Industrie was separately crowned best slice in the U.S. Mano’s in Forest Hills was crowned fourth while L & B Spumoni Gardens, known for its upside-down square slice, took 10th.
