![]() ![]() But those details, and the annoying fact that eating at this Carroll Gardens institution often requires lining up at 4pm, don’t matter for this guide. We could tell you that this cash-only restaurant is BYOB, and that the little room feels like a spiritual place of pizza worship. We could tell you about the way the pizzaiolo at Lucali rolls out the dough with empty wine bottles on a marble countertop in front of a brick oven. ![]() Perfect For: BYOB Classic Establishment Impressing Out of Towners Literally Everyone And, if nothing else, we can agree on that. If you want to engage in the democratic forum of pizza talk, send us an email at We want to hear your opinions, because it’s how we know you care about pizza more than you care about your second cousins. But consider our ranking the order of places we’d grab a slice from first, in a dream scenario where all of these pizzas are available to eat in the same liminal space. If you grew up watching Dom DeMarco fire your pies at Di Fara in Midwood, you might never want to travel to New Jersey to eat pizza. Thin, olive oil-slick Roman pies don’t naturally compare to dough bricks of Detroit-style, for example. Pizza preference has always been and will always be deeply personal. Does this Staten Island pizza have the proper cracker-y crust? Did that char-bubbled pizza inspire an idea to sell salt shakers of “coal-oven seasoning”? How did that layer of mozzarella stay put on a classic New York slice like it’s the Q train at Dekalb? We revisited the classics and the new classics, debating which spots currently exemplify their genre. How exactly did we rank the pizza in a city that claims to be the birthplace of America’s first-ever pies? A city where even the pigeons have slice preferences? Well, first we ate a lot of pizza. ![]()
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