New York City is a fantastic place to visit if you love pizza. Even the most average slice joint in New York City is likely to beat out your hometown pizza place (if you're from New Haven, Chicago or Naples, you might disagree!) True pizza lovers will want to experience the best pizza New York City has to offer -- whether it's by dining at some great pizzerias, taking a pizza tour or even learning how to make your own pizza!
1. New York City's Best Pizza
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Our list tends toward the classics, but you can't go wrong with lunch or dinner at any of these top-notch New York City pizzerias!
2. Pizza A Casa
If you've always wanted to make pizzas expertly at home, here is your chance to learn how. During the course of this four-hour class, chef Mark Bello will share with you his fool-proof techniques for making delicious pizzas at home. Mark and his team work closely with class participants, ensuring you'll leave the class confident in your ability to replicate the delicious pizzas you made in class. Pizza A Casa also sells all the tools you need to make pizza at home for class participants, as well as the general public.
3. A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour
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If you want to explore pizza and Brooklyn, try this guided bus tour that leaves from Union Square and brings you to two of Brooklyn's most famous pizzerias: L&B Spumoni Gardens in Bensonhurst and Grimaldi's. The tour also gives participant a great overview of the borough and a chance to see a fair bit of it, including Coney Island, Bay Ridge and the Brooklyn Bridge.
4. Scott's Pizza Tours
Scott's Pizza Tours offers both bus and walking tours of New York City pizzerias. His three-hour walking tour explores Little Italy and Greenwich Village and includes pizza at three pizzerias. His four-and-a-half-hour bus tour includes pizza at three pizzerias with stops in Manhattan and the outer boroughs.
