Jim Lahey's pizzas have chewy crusts with blistered edges, and the toppings are fresh. The spinach-topped Popeye is the must-order dish here, but also consider the flambé pizza or the cauliflower pie. Read more.
Dom DeMarco is the most legendary pizzaiolo in New York, if not the entire country. His pies are topped with a three cheese blend, snips of fresh basil, and a thin layer of olive oil. Read more.
A popular favorite in the area, it doesn't only serve up perfection in pie form. They also offer pastas, salads like their raw brussel sprouts or kale numbers, and killer cocktails. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
Grimaldi's serves consistently tasty thin crust pizzas, which are baked in a coal oven. The original owner of the restaurant, Patsy Grimaldi. Read more.
This 54-year-old Staten Island pizzeria serves extra-wide, super-thin pizzas topped with big patches of melted fresh mozzarella. You can eat many of them before you start to feel full. Read more.
As many food writers and pizza nerds have noted over the last few decades, Joe's Pizza serves the quintessential NY slice. The crust is thin and crisp, with even layers of cheese and tomato sauce. Read more.
Like Totonno's, this 85-year-old restaurant serves coal-oven fired pizzas that have thin, light brown crusts, but the pies here are profusely topped with sauce and cheese. Read more.
Three restaurants in one: the ice cream window, the pizzeria, and the sit-down sicilian place. They vary in quality, but the totality of the food (spumoni and gelati are A+) does it. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
Lombardi's is not the best coal oven pizzeria in New York City, but it is the oldest, and the pizzas do not disappoint. Read more.
The pies as Mario Batali's wildly popular pizzeria start on the griddle and finish in the broiler. Otto serves one of the city's great clam pies, as well as a terrific lardo and rosemary-topped pizza. Read more.
Opened in 1933, the original location of Patsy's is the only old school coal oven pizzeria in New York that offers pizza by the slice. The crust will make you feel as if you are in Naples. Read more.
Ed Levine wrote that Sal served slices that were "more workmanlike and less idiosyncratic than Di Fara, but no less artful and satisfying." One of the best places for a slice on the Upper West Side. Read more.
Hidden behind a dummy wall in the back of Stone Street Coffee Co. Facade is marked by a red light. Push wall back to get to the bar. Has a claw-foot tub in the center of the room. Order the Pimm's Cup
To get to this unmarked bar, walk to the back of the Five Guys on Bleecker Street, and up the stairs next to the bathroom. You can have Five Guys delivered right to your barstool.
To get to this swanky lounge, walk straight to the back of the tavern Barramundi and push the buzzer next to the door marked "private." Once youre buzzed up, order truffles in mint and Dark & Stormy.
This metal-themed lounge is accessible via an unmarked doorway on Avenue B by 14th Street. Go up the flight of stairs and you'll find a big bar, black chandeliers, black curtains, and a stripper pole.
Serves over 70 beers. Just find the address,124 MacDougal, walk down steps to the black door. A bunny is spray-painted by the entrance. If the door is closed, ring the buzzer so they’ll let you in.
The unmarked brown door on the triangular corner of Seventh Avenue South and Leroy Street will lead you down a staircase and into the basement watering hole. Cash only.
Actually located in another bar, XVI. Tell the bouncer you’re there for JBird, follow the bird logos that line the wall. Go down a staircase and through two doors marked “exit” leading to the lounge.
Tucked into an unassuming brownstone, this secret bar draws pre- and post-theater crowd that skews more towards industry insiders. Even though it looks like you’re entering an apartment, go right in.
Buzz to get in. Laid out like a Prohibition-era apartment. Enjoy drinks in the lounge & living room while bartenders make them in the kitch. Pull the chain next to your table to summon your server.
A storefront on E 6th with wooden panels in place of windows. Death & Co. is printed on metal out front. Give your number to the bouncer at the door. He’ll call you when you can come inside.
The newest speakeasy to hit the scene. A Murray Hill secret locale located behind an out of service ATM. Tapas, Cocktails in teapots, and has a plexiglass case with “a million dollars cash” in it.
Above Home Sweet Home's ground-floor entrance. Once on the 2nd fl, a bouncer will greet you at what seems to be an art gallery. Through the gallery you'll find Fig 19. Order the jalapeno margarita.
One of the simpler "hidden" bars to get into. On the second floor of the sushi restaurant, there is a discreet, marked door through which you'll find the bar.
Back Room fronts as a closed toy shop. Creep down an alley to find the entrance. Drinks are served in teacups. The front door has a peek-and-speak hole, and a sliding bookcase reveals a second bar.
Hidden under a corner roadside taqueria, The Corner. Go downstairs behind a door marked "employees only", sneak through the kitchen, then a sort of locker room, to get to this underground restaurant.
Accessible via a subterranean door beneath a Little Italy souvenier shop. It's part club, part restaurant, and home to a weekend brunch that rages well into the early evening.
