Finding the BEST Pizza in New York City

Ciao ragazzi! So today, pizza! New York pizza, we're gonna see which is the best one from all of your recommendations on our Instagram. So, let's try it! It's real. It's not. It's real. So, amore, are you excited for New York pizza? No. Why? I already saw pictures online, I ruined the surprise. I already saw what it looks like. I'm not excited. I'm actually excited. Why are you excited? Yeah, because everybody said New York style pizza is the best. And I don't compare it to a dollar pizza. So... So, yeah. Super excited. Who said we're not eating dollar pizza today? No. No, no, no, no, no. Dollar pizza today. Unregular pizza? Unregular pizza. Okay, Roman style. So, Roma. Roman style pizza. Yeah. Let's see. So, the two guys who make pizza were Italian. Really? Yeah. You could hear them speaking? Yeah, they were speaking Italian. I didn't notice. Yeah. They use mutti. So, I would try Italian style or American style. Did they write your name correct? Yes. Nice. But the guy was American who served us. Okay. Well, we got the cacio e pepe and a buffalona with pesto, burrata, something, cacio e pepe. Cacio e pepe. I'm scared of cacio e pepe. I love cacio e pepe, though. So, when I saw it, I had to try it. Five. Good, but not impressed. Five. Again. Good, but not impressed. Also a five? Or... Yeah, because it doesn't taste like cacio e pepe. It tastes like formaggio. Okay. I see what you're saying. Good, but not impressive. I also rate it a five. Yours is better than mine. Of course. You didn't tell me that. Well, cacio e pepe, I don't want to miss the beginning. Okay, okay. I'm fine. It's five. It's okay, guys. Is it Roman? No. The reason I'm not impressed is the crust. Because the toppings are pretty good, but the crust is not. It's reward to $11. I was going to another place eating pizza. He made some new friends. This is why I get out from here. This is the Sex and the City characters. Oh. Not zombies. I was thinking zombies. Name it Best Pizza in New York. Next. Two slices? Two slices of cheese. Your first real New York pizza slice. This is the New York... This is the classic New York slice. Hold that up. Not bad. Go to Joe's. Six. Six? Six. Not bad. We have a vote from this guy that said go to Joe's. I will. I will go there. Yeah, I mean, it is tasty. The crust, it is like... Not bad. We'll have to see if the other pizzas... Second, this is the best pizza in the world now. So, if this is the level, I worry about it for the other levels. But, okay. Does this beat your Italy pizza? No. Italy, don't worry. You can sleep. This is not even your fifth cousin. Even your fifth cousin. They don't know each other. I'm giving that a five, amore. It tastes like roller rink pizza. Yes. Where you go when you're a kid to those pizza parties and you have the pizza. Okay, because me, I would try to say five. But the other place was five. Or take down the other place. I preferred my cacio e pepe. You preferred cacio e pepe? So, I'm going to lift my cacio e pepe to a 5.5. This is a five. The more you wait, the more fast going. So, actually, here we cannot get this pizza. No slices. So, get out from our list. Yeah, disqualified. Because this list is only for slices. Only for slices. A lot of people recommended this place. Yeah. A lot. When we review the pizza. Pizza. Full pizza. We might come back here. Yes. Guess where we're going. Where are we going? We're going to make that guy happy. We're going to go to Joe's. Joe's was in the list. Joe's is on the list. This was the most voted on our Instagram for a slice. Okay. So, I'm curious to... Do you see? Yeah. Leaves coming down. We're going to try it. Let's try it. So, it's a little bit bigger. Yeah. It's hanging off the thing. It looks better. In my opinion. It looks better. Let me get another taste. It was in the beginning with the bubble. 5.5. I'm not impressed for New York pizza at all. It left me a beautiful mess here. Want it? Yeah. Ready? Just smelling it. I can already know what it's going to taste like. Yeah. 5.1. So, you better the other place. Yeah. 5.1. I mean, yeah. Better do the other place, but... It is like the classic New York slice of pizza. But, I'm sorry. For the standard of pizza that we eat. It's not that good. Especially for $4. New York, I think we're going to have to have a talk about pizza. Yeah. Slice pizza. I know. I'm sorry. Masinis, come on. You caught us. I was looking for Scott of Scott's Pizza Tours. Do you know him? No. Oh, Scott. Yeah, he's like the local pizza guy. He does all the pizzas? He's more... Yeah, he's a historian and he takes tours. Do you know what his favorite pizza is? He never says. I used to have a pizza place in the East Village. So, he and I... Really? Yeah, he used to take tours. Don't own a restaurant. So, I saw your post about your tampon. And I had just made bolognese. Oh, okay. It's delicious. And I tagged you and it's saying, come over after you're out of the hospital. I'm sorry I missed it. We missed it. You're going to Rivalta right now? So, I want to bring two people by. I bumped into them on the street. They're the pasinis. This looks so nice outside. I like it. Let's go. So, how is it looking, in your opinion? It looks okay. The cornichonic... I like a little bit more lift on the crust. But the cheese and sauce look pretty good. Look at me. Uh-oh. Looking good. In your opinion, looking good? Pretty good. We got a pretty good... I'm going to say it looks pretty good as well. Actually, not bad. Really? Yeah. They're looking terrible, but... Looks terrible, not bad. Okay, here, the second bite, it is boring. Burnt? First bite. Like it's spicy? Burnt on the bottom. So, it's like a cracker. Oh, it's too crisp, like under the pie. Yeah. But it's better than what we eat. Better than Joe's and better than Bleecker? Yeah, yeah. Zero in the fives, in my opinion. Hopefully one of them... Don't be too excited. No, no, no. Depends what you bite. I don't know. It's okay. Yeah, I'll give it a couple decimal points higher than the other ones, but we're still not anything amazing. We're not still there. But you're right. I'm really not a fan of this really hard crust. Eat another piece like here. At the top? Yeah. So you confirm us? Pretty dry. Yeah. Alright, we have others to try. We have others to try. I'm gonna move along. We gotta go to the... Rivalta. Italian Neapolitan. Okay. I like the sound of that. Wait. First we need to say, here's Scott. Scott's Pizza Tours. Pizza Tour in New York, right? In New York. So he bring the people around to try the pizza. The good pizza. I already see a good pizza here. So I think already... I know. Already your face is smiling. Yes. Already smiling. Although I feel like... Sometimes when you see a really bad pizza, it might make you smile just the same way. I don't know. Because you're like ready to dig your challenges anyway. Dig down some. Exactly. But I don't care. I need to be honest. If it's bad, it's written all over his face. He can't hide his emotions. Yeah, but then after I'm sad. Yeah. Now we try to do the slight pizza. Like New York slice. Classic. Who's the best. Because everybody's saying, oh try the New York pizza. This is Neapolitan style, you said. Right? You're gonna ask me, what's your favorite? Or does Scott have a favorite? I'm like, Scott's not gonna tell you his favorite. Years ago, I had a Pulcinella that somebody gave me. A guy who owns a pizzeria gave me a Pulcinella. And I kept it in my kitchen whenever I made pizza. And then of course it broke. And Damien's like, oh I'm gonna make this. This is a good one. There we go. He chose well. It's a sturdy one. Sturdy one. The other one had very skinny ankles. And that's where he broke. You see it? I know. The pizza. Already this is the proving from the pizza. Although he's holding it. He's holding the pizza. I don't know if you have like a hole. No. So we eat pizza? Food pizza? Yeah. How do you forget about the slices? Yeah. I can do that. We have to go where destiny takes us. Exactly. Call it. This is the whole idea of the tour is to like get an understanding of what the heck is going on. With a food that you thought was so simple. It required no deeper knowledge. Turns out we were wrong about that. The wood-fired oven for the Neapolitan pizza. On all of them. The sauce is just salted crushed tomato. Not the sauce. Not cooked. Not ready. No. Just tomato. That's it. Yeah. He did Joe's. We're talking about Joe's. What did you think of Joe's? No. This is longer fermentation. It's like crazy. Much higher water content. Much longer fermentation. Unlike New York style, which is very aggressive because it's using high protein flour. This is about like pressing down. But pressing down but never pressing out. You'll never see dough being thrown up in the air. It's too low protein strength and protein content. What they'll do is a second process of pulling it over the back of the hand and then pressing it straight down. And you do this like two or three times and it gets you to 80% of what you want the pizza to be. Then they'll top it. See it's topped over here on the edge. And then he's going to slide it onto the pizza peel. Big metal shovel. I know what you did. I was going to have to make a smile like that. Yeah. We are there. Good? Finally. This is really good. We're cheating a little bit. We're cheating. We don't do anymore. It doesn't matter. Oh, there we go. Wow, soft. Beautiful. Right? That's it. This is pizza. Come to eat Pizza Rebalder. So, how is it ragazzi? It's good? Buona? The master. Guys, if you come to New York, Scottville. And you're going to go eat amazing pizza. This is bringing me to life again. Right? Yeah, after what we did today. I'm so bummed. I love Joe's. Really? We don't like it. We like this. Not for everybody. Yeah. But for me, Joe's is the quintessential. The standard. This life. You got one slice. You got a regular slice. We got a regular slice. Regular slice. Fresh pie. On a paper plate. On the go. You didn't put it in a box. No, no. Ours wasn't fresh though. It had been sitting there. We're sitting there. Maybe that was the reason. Could be the reason. That's their pizza. Yeah. Amora. You never know what's going to happen. Right now. What amazing day ever. So, from the bullshit pizza. From sadness and depression where we were falling down in a hole. We need to turn right here. Yes. To being lifted up by the angels of New York pizza lovers. Let's go to the next stop. Let's go. How do you eat too much New York pizza? I get it. Amore, let's go. Are you there? Sorry, I confused you. Everybody give a thumbs up for Alessio's amazing jokes. Of course. First pizzeria in America. Lombardi's. Yeah. Supposedly, the guys came up from Naples. They brought pizza to the United States. Yes. So, we have them to blame. Okay. Alright, so... We need to disqualify this one. Only because we do just a slight pizza. So, this we're going to put in a different video. The best pizza. Yes. They're also disqualified. Of course, disqualified. It was just for the sake of the fun, you know? Yeah. But we're coming back. Slices only today. New York style. Slices. Paparazzi. Sir, sir. Can I get your thoughts on New York pizza? Of course. It's a great shit. It's shit. No. Come on. For all those who say that New York pizza is the best pizza in the world. Get out from your little house. Alright. Slice looks good. Looks a little bit greasy. I don't know. This is the last place today. I hope this is the thing. It's cracking on the bottom. It's not a good sign. Alright. See? We got it. Huh? I'm gonna win. It's not bad. I'm gonna have it. But compared to the other one, this is winning? It's better. Yeah. Me, no. No, no. Not right. Oh, wait. The flavor is better, but the crust, the hard crust is making me not happy. It's not soft crust. One more time. The flavor is good. The flavor is good, but the texture of the crust is not good. The crust is not. We are not mad. It's too crackery. Yeah, too crackery. You can't fold it and eat it. Yeah. For me, it's not better than the other ones. So what score you give? 4.9. For me, I'm giving it another 5. Yeah. I would try to, yeah. I mean, for me, it's like on par with the other ones. It doesn't stand out. Yeah. None of these stand out. They're just like blah. I feel like I'm, I feel like I just went to like play bowling and I got a slice of pizza at the bowling alley. Yeah. Like all of these pizzas taste like bowling alley pizza to me. You can find this pizza all over the United States. You don't need to come to New York to see, oh, this is amazing. I'm kind of disappointed because I had really high hopes. Let's go. Amore? What are you doing? This is a pizza video. Yes. I take my $4 slide pizza. Amore, this is not pizza. It is pizza. It is.