Best Pizza in Manhattan
The 10 best pizza spots in Manhattan right now, coal-oven, Neapolitan, square slice, late-night. Picked by locals, sourced from Eater, Time Out, and Infatuation.
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- 1West Village · $ · 7 Carmine StMap ↗verified 7w ago
The plain-cheese-slice authority of Greenwich Village, open since 1975 and operating on the same wide-fold formula that defined the New York street-corner pizza experience for two generations.
Because the slice is consistent at any hour of the day and any day of the year, the dough has structural memory you can taste, and you can stand outside on Carmine eating it without anybody watching.
Order Plain cheese slice, fold in half, eat standing.
Skip the line on weekends, it moves fast because nobody is ordering anything weird, and the per-slice price has barely moved in five years.
Good to know
- What is the best pizza shop in Manhattan?
- Our current #1 reflects a blend of editorial sourcing from Eater, The Infatuation, and Time Out, plus live community votes. It changes as votes come in — the rank you see today may not be the rank tomorrow.
- Where is the oldest pizza place in Manhattan?
- Lombardi's on Spring Street opened in 1905 and is widely credited as the first pizzeria licensed in the United States. It still uses a coal-fired oven.
- What style of pizza is Manhattan known for?
- Two styles dominate: the wide-fold New York slice (Joe's, Prince Street, Scarr's) and the coal-oven whole-pie tradition (Lombardi's, John's of Bleecker, Patsy's). Newer Neapolitan-style spots have pushed wood-fired Naples pies into the conversation since the early 2010s.
- How much does a slice of pizza cost in Manhattan?
- A plain cheese slice runs $3.50 to $5 at most counters. Specialty squares (Prince Street pepperoni, Scarr's Sicilian) climb to $7 to $9. Whole-pie spots are $25 to $35 for an 18-inch.
