Although this may come as a huge surprise to some people, I eat a lot more than just pizza. In fact, pizza accounts for 3-4 meals of mine each week — only about 20% of the food I consume. It just so happens that two excellent pizza places made the top of my list of the 25 best places I ate at in NYC last year: Roberta’s and Paulie Gee’s. I always go back and forth as to which I like better. But at the time I composed the list, here’s where these places fell. They were the only pizza places to make the list. Only places I ate at for the first time were eligible.
1) Roberta’s (Bushwick) – Pizza
2) Paulie Gee’s (Greenpoint) – Pizza
3) Dirt Candy (East Village) – Vegetarian
4) Fort Defiance (Red Hook) – American
5) Rye (Williamsburg) – American
6) Convivio (Midtown East) – Italian
7) Sue Perrette (Carroll Gardens) – American
8) Prime Meats (Carroll Gardens) – American
9) Pies ‘N’ Thighs (Williamsburg) – Southern
10) Locanda Verde (Tribeca) – Italian
11) Octavia’s Porch (East Village) – Jewish
12) 10 Downing (West Village) – American
13) Peels (East Village) – American
14) Arepa Arepa (Williamsburg) – Latin American
15) Curry Ya (East Village) – Japanese
16) Maialino (Gramercy) – Italian
17) Primehouse (Flatiron) – Steak
18) The Meatball Shop (Lower East Side) – American
19 Walter Foods (Williamsburg) – American
20) L’Artusi (West Village) – Italian
21) Po Brooklyn (Carroll Gardens) – Italian
22) Rockaway Taco (Rockaway Beach) – Mexican
23) Five Leaves (Williamsburg) – American
24) Madiba (Fort Greene) – African
25) Xi’an Famous Foods (East Village) – Chinese