New York might just have the best pizza in the US. And the New York-style pizza is beloved by many. Thus, lots of US cities and states have their versions of this New York pie staple.
Even though you can have a great slice in all five boroughs, you’ll have the best pizza in Brooklyn.
We’ve listed 10 best Brooklyn pizza places with the most delicious, authentic pies and slices in NY. Some of them offer delivery or pickup, so you can get the best pizza in Brooklyn within minutes.
1) Speedy Romeo
- Established: 2012
- Signature dish: King Brother Pizza
Speedy Romeo is a pizzeria and steakhouse in Clinton Hill, serving pies cooked with fire in a hardwood fired Italian pizza oven. The place was a 100-year-old bar, then an auto parts shop and today is an iconic pizza joint!
Speedy Romeo is named by one of the owners’ champion racehorses. And the horse’s portrait is framed in the kitchen. That’s some genuine local appeal!
This industrial restaurant serves pizzas, salads, appetizers, and meat dishes.
Speedy Romeo makes wood-fires St. Louis style pizza, thinner, with a crispier crust than the typical Brooklyn pizza. Their pies are made with fresh mozzarella pulled every morning and Provel cheese (a combination of cheddar, Swiss, and provolone cheeses) from St Louis, Missouri, and are charred to perfection.
Their most famous pizza is King Brother pizza with bechamel sauce, wild mushrooms, smoked mozzarella, farm egg, and sage.
They are proud to be included on the Michelin Guide’s Bib Gourmand list.
2) Vinnie’s Pizzeria
- Established: 1960
- Signature dish: Buffalo Chicken Pizza and Black Bean Avocado
This pizza gem is one of the best pizza places in Brooklyn. In Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Vinnie's still uses the original recipe for their pizzas, but everything else is changed.
Vinnie's new owners kept the head chef and the pizzaiolo and recreated the menu with ingredients and catchy pie names. So you can grab a Parmageddon, Mac Atack, or T.Hanks pizza.
The interior may be sparingly arranged, but the pop culture influenced exceptional boards and memorabilia makes Vinnie's unique. One of the owners, Sean Berthiaume, creates world-famous boards with daily specials and groan-worthy puns.
You can choose some of the classics like Cheese or Pepperoni pie, but there are plenty of vegan (made with 100% vegan ingredients & Teese cheese) and vegetarian pizzas, as well as gluten-free pizzas.
A great vegetarian option is the Black Bean Avocado pizza with avocado, chopped tomatoes, and feta cheese on a bed of black beans. From the meat pies, the Buffalo Chicken pizza made with spicy chicken, shaved blue cheese, mozzarella cheese, and Frank’s hot sauce is a must-try.
3) Dellarocco’s
- Established: 2012
- Signature dish: Dellarocco Pizza
This cozy pizza joint is in the heart of Brooklyn Heights. Opened by two pizza enthusiasts and a savvy Naples native chef on board, Dellarocco’s love and passion for pizza is evident in every pizza on the menu.
They have a long list of white and red pizzas, gluten-free and vegan pizzas too. Make sure to try their white Dellarocco’s pizza with smoked buffalo mozzarella cheese, broccoli di rabe, sweet Italian sausage, red peppers, garlic, and basil.
Their chefs use a fully visible wood-fired oven, so you can enjoy the view and the warm atmosphere while waiting for your order.
Besides pizza, Dellarocco’s serves salad, appetizers, calzones, and desserts, and features a huge beer and wine selection.
4) Billy’s Pizza & Pasta
- Established: 2007
- Signature dish: Buffalo Chicken Thick Crust Pan Pie
This family-owned restaurant located on Bedford Ave in Brooklyn serves delicious pizzas since the day they opened the doors in 2007. Using a secret family recipe, passed down for generations and hand-made sauce and dough is what makes Billy’s pizzas unique and authentic.
They use only high-quality ingredients to make mouthwatering pizzas, pasta, salads, their famous buffalo wings, and garlic knots, and more.
They serve pizza by the slice and thin-crust pizza, as well as gourmet and gourmet pan pizzas. Make sure to try their Buffalo Chicken Thick Crust Pan Pie with chicken cutlets, mozzarella, blue cheese, and hot sauce.
5) Paulie Gee’s & Paulie Gee’s Slice Shop
- Established: 2010
- Signature dish: Hellboy pizza
Both Paulie Gee's and Paulie Gee's Slice Shop are located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, though there are several outposts in Columbus, Baltimore, and Chicago.
The first is a cozy restaurant with an open kitchen concept and a giant pizza oven in the restaurant's center. The latter is filled with sports memorabilia and video games.
And both have extensive, pizza-only menus
The pizzas come in more than 20 varieties with toppings from honey to cherries. There are many vegan pies and a list of secret pizzas. (Their suggestion is to ask for some cold salted butter on the crust).The pies' names are unique, so you can order a Ricotta be Kiddin', A Whiter Shade of Kale, or Hellboy. The last one is made with fresh mozzarella, Italian tomatoes, Berkshire Soppressata Piccante, Parmigiano Reggiano, and Mike's hot honey and is their signature dish.
6) Sauce and Soda
- Established: 2019
- Signature dish: The Shroom Pizza
This recently opened pizzeria is a hidden gem in Bushwick. They serve individual pies and slices with some creative toppings.
You can choose from a variety of meat, veggie, and vegan pies. They also serve fried pies and a sweet fried pizza with Nutella and strawberries, alongside salads, sides, and sandwiches.
Order the Shroom Pizza or slice with cremini and oyster mushrooms, fresh oregano, truffle oil, mozzarella, and garlic oil.
7) Giuseppina’s Brick Oven Pizza
- Established: 2011
- Signature dish: Cheese pizza
Owned by the same family behind Lucali pizza, Giuseppina’s offers equally tasteful pizza without the long queues.
This South Brooklyn joint is very similar to Lucali restaurant. Dark dining room with candles, an open kitchen with a visible wood-burning oven, and some great pie.
Pizzas in Giuseppina’s are thin crust with a bunch of fresh basil. You should try their Cheese pizza with buffalo mozzarella cheese, homemade tomato sauce, and freshly grated Reggiano and Pecorino on top.
8) Emily
- Established: 2014
- Signature dish: Emily pizza
This Clinton Hill family pizzeria became a New York staple from soon after it first opened the doors in 2014.
During their high school years, when Emily and Matt Hyland were a couple, their first shared meal was a pizza. Years later, together they opened Emily in Brooklyn.
They serve thin-crust, wood-fired pizzas with original toppings like Szechuan oil, honey, breadcrumbs, peppadew peppers, pistachios, and Sottocenere cheese.
Try the Emily: white pie with mozzarella, pistachio, truffle Sottocenere, and honey, or the red pie Colony with sauce, mozzarella, Pepperoni, pickled chili, and honey. They serve award-winning burgers, too.
Two years after Emily served its first pies, Emily and Matt opened another pizzeria – Emmy Squared, specialized for rectangular, Detroit-style pies.
9) Motorino
- Established: 2008
- Signature dish: Brussels Sprouts Pizza
Though Motorino closed its original location in Williamsburg due to problems with the building, thankfully it was reopened in 2013. Today, Motorino has several outposts in the East Village, Upper and West Side, but in Hong Kong, Dubai, and 3 other countries in Asia, too.
The restaurant has an open kitchen concept, centered around a big flaming oven. They serve a variety of buttery white and red pies charred to perfection.
Even though their Soppressata Picante is a great choice, you should try the Brussels Sprouts Pizza. Alongside brussels sprout this white pizza contains fior di latte, pecorino cheese, smoked pancetta, and extra virgin olive oil.
10) Grimaldi’s
- Established: 1990
- Signature dish: White Pie with Garlic
Grimaldi is one of the famous Brooklyn pizza places that started baking pies in 1990. This award-winning family-owned restaurant opened its first location under the Brooklyn Bridge in the borough’s Dumbo neighborhood. The original location is still serving delicious pies up to today.
They serve thin-crust coal-fired brick oven pizzas, chef’s selection of pies, and specialty pies. You should try their coal oven cheese pizza and the white pie with garlic.
