New York Trip Overview
Pizza is the huge tradition in New York and only the New Yorker can show the best pizza spots in the city. Congratulations, our pizza tour is the best opportunity to feel like a real New Yorker whose favourite go-to meal is pizza. On this tour, our local pizza guide will take you through the pizza world with highly rated pizzerias from Neapolitan to Sicilian. While you are enjoying the food, you will also learn a lot about the neighbourhood and its culture you walk through.
NYC’s pizza has different styles and types depending on the district. You will receive the printed pocket pizza journal guide where the best pizza shops are located.
Additional Info
Duration: 2 hours
Starts: New York, United States
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting New York, , United States
Pizza is the huge tradition in New York and only the New Yorker can show the best pizza spots in the city. Congratulations, our pizza tour is the best opportunity to feel like a real New Yorker whose favourite go-to meal is pizza. On this tour, our local pizza guide will take you through the pizza world with highly rated pizzerias from Neapolitan to Sicilian. While you are enjoying the food, you will also learn a lot about the neighbourhood and its culture you walk through.
NYC’s pizza has different styles and types depending on the district. You will receive the printed pocket pizza journal guide where the best pizza shops are located.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Manhattan, New York, NY, USA
You have probably seen the travel TV shows where the lost tried different types of pizza. On this tour, you would have the chance to try the true taste of NYC. Our spectacular tour guide will help you to find the best spot for cheese, delicious slices in the whole New York. While exploring the pizza the local history and culture will amaze you no worse than the taste of pizza.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Little Italy, Little Italy, New York City, New York
The tour starts with the Crosstown Pizza Walking Tour which includes well-known and the oldest pizzeria place in America-Litlle Italy with the hundred of different restaurants where you can order the pizza slices, burgers, pasta and all of the Italian food samples that were brought by Italian emigrants in early 1900s. On this part of the tour, we will also pass through the neighbouring Greenwich Village with amazing pizzerias such as Blecker Street Pizza.
On the North Village of the Greenwich, we will stop at one of the most iconic pizzerias in the world-Joe’s pizza is top 10 listing restaurant guides in Time Out New York. Joe’s Pizza is also referred to as « the quintessential New York slice.»
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Lower East Side, Lower East Side, New York City, New York
The next tour destination is the Lower East Side. This pizza walking excursion is Manhattan’s pizza lover’s paradise. Here you can find the Scarr’s Pizza the old-fashioned Neapolitan pies, pizza-by-slices windows. Here the pizza makers will even make the special modern interpretation of New York City’s signature dish. You can even learn from the pizza maker what effects of different ovens and signature manoeuvres.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Emilio’s Ballato, 55 E Houston St, New York, NY 10012, USA
The unique place for the whole NYC where the owners are having the policy of no phones and no ways to make the reservations. This is the VIPs like Lenny Kravits and Barack Obama are having their regular dinner at. If you are wondering what is so special about this place? Well,
firstly the Litlle Italy is the place where it is hard to find the decent Italian restaurant that follows the traditions of the country, most of the pizzerias in Litle Italy are pretty influenced with the American culture. However, the Emilio’s Ballato is the restaurant that shows the old-fashioned Italian interior and design of the room is lit with crystal chandeliers with the framed photos of celebrities which are lined with faded walls. The service is deadpan and the food is spectacular, don’t you dare skip the winelist since the experience of having the well-trained wine servers is precious. On the menu, you can find the antipasto platter, baked clams, and homecooked tagliatelle Bolognese.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Bleecker Street Pizza, 69 7th Ave S, New York, NY 10014, USA
The Greenwich Village’s favourite place for the outstanding pizza is the Blecker Street Pizza. To confirm this fact, this pizzeria was voted “Best Pizza in NY” by the Food Network several times.
This place is more casual and cramped walls which are full of the celebrities photo like Mike Tyson and Steven Tyler. The Blecker Street Pizza has its signature pizza type which is the Nonna Marine slice with homemade marinara sauce and the mozzarella cheese and basil on the top. Luckily, their doors open until 5 am Friday to Sunday and you can easily pick up some pizza snack between you bar hops.
If you want to try the best pizza in Greenwich Village the Blecker Street Pizza is the best option. You will be probably salivating for more.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Joe’s Pizza, 7 Carmine St, New York, NY 10014, USA
Established in 1975 by independent owner Joe Pozzuoli who is originally from Naples, Italy. For over 37 years Joe has been living as the «Greenwich Village institution» and offering the classic New York slices.
HIs pizzeria is a top favourite amongst the tourists as well as locals who know where to get the authentic street slice of pizza. In 2009 Joe’s Pizza was listed as one the «Best 25 Pizzas on Earth» by GQ Magazine. After trying Joe’s slice you would never try any other pizza again. Whenever you are hungry, you should not hesitate to come back to JOe’s Pizza.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Scarr’s Pizza, 22 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002, USA
The Scarr’s Pizza owner is not the ordinary immigrant from Italy, Scarr Pimental is 38-years-old Dominican –American guy who mills the grains on his own every day. This place has its style and policy that the owner does follow. When you just come in it feels like the café survived the Koch Administration, however, the decorations can tell you nothing about the pizza quality they cook here. When the pizza arrives you will have a thought that it is the basic New York pizza, nothing special, thin, wide-brimmed with the cheese and tomato sauce. But after the first bite, you will understand your miscalculation since the taste is close to the perfect pizza where the complex texture, light, even delicate crust which gives you the long aftertaste.
The guys here do know how to cook the fantastic pizza that understands how to make ideal pizza in NYC.
Duration: 1 hour
