Dave's Picks | Your Brookyln Guide's Best + Most Famous Pizzas in Brooklyn

Sourced from Your Brooklyn Guide | December 3, 2020

Oh geez foodies

prepare yourselves for quite possibly the most exhaustive list of pizza joints in all the land you’re stompin’ on. And let’s not fight about it: we at Speak to Dave believe in making pizza, not war!

Feast your eyes on the incredible specimens below, bookmark the hot hot source and scootcho’ pizza lovin’ booties to these fine establishments to grab you a slice all ASAP.

HOLY HOLY pizza pies . . . 👀

Grimaldi’s

DUMBO

• Home to arguably some of the best pizza in Brooklyn and even the entire country.
• Serving up the best pizza in town since 1990, founded by Patsy Grimaldi.
• Over 100 years of pizza-making tradition and one of the few places left that still cook pizza using a coal oven since being outlawed in the city.

Table 87

Brooklyn Heights, Gowanus, Industry City

• Three BK locations make it one of the easiest pizza restaurants to add to your pizza tour.
• For an authentic Table 87 coal oven experience — dine IN.
• First pizzeria in Brooklyn to offer coal oven pizza by the slice.
• Offers both square and regular style Margherita pies, a 12” sausage & peppers pie, a 12” prosciutto & baby arugula pie, a Burrata Margherita pie, w/ creamy burrata cheese, San Marzano tomatoes, fresh basil.

Joe’s Pizza

Williamsburg

• Born in Greenwich Village in Manhattan — now blessing us w/ a Williamsburg location
• Famous late night spot (and no stranger to visits from celebrities) with testimonials as ‘best pizza in the city’ by actor Ben Affleck and actor Kevin Bacon’s choice for a last meal!
• Legit pies. Dates back to 1975 by an Italian immigrant from Naples known as Joe Pozzuoli.
• Joe’s Pizza has won several accolades and been featured in many ‘best pizza lists’ — not only in the city but also in the WORLD —  was one of GQ’s, “Best 25 Pizzas on Earth.”

Juliana’s

DUMBO

• Famous rival of Grimaldi’s. Juliana’s is Brooklyn’s next best pizza hot spot — and — 
• Actually right next door to Grimaldi’s and actually founded by the same man, Patsy Grimaldi!
• In the late 90s, Patsy Grimaldi ditched the coal-fired ovens and sold the Grimaldi name and pizzeria to retire, or so he thought.
• Grimaldi changed his mind in 2012 to open Juliana’s right next door to Grimaldi’s!

F&F

Carroll Gardens

• Once a garage, now one of the best pizza places in Brooklyn • Named after the two who started the joint, Frank Falcinelli and Frank Castronovo and is wedged in-between their two other establishments, Frank’s Wine Bar and Frankie’s 457.
• Had some help from Chris Bianco, one of the best pizza makers in the country, and Chad Robertson of Tartine Bakery.
• F&F keeps it simple, serving up pies only but offer a lot of combos beyond the Regular pie and Sicilian square pie, like the Mushroom, Sweet Fennel Sausage & Broccoli Rabe, and more!

Dellarocco’s

Brooklyn Heights

• Serves up Neapolitan style wood-fired pizzas with a great range of both red and white pizzas to choose from.
• Time Out named Dellarocco’s one of the best pizzas in the city.
• Award winning, Dellarocco’s is still a little under the radar and easier to nab a table at than some of the others mentioned on this list.
• Has menu items that are Vegan and Gluten-Free.

Barboncino

Hot tips!

• Located @ Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights
• Offers a menu of mouthwatering Neapolitan wood-fire pies, appetizers, salads, and drink menu: beer, wine, and cocktails
• The owners were once involved with Pauli Gee’s.
• Recommended: Get a side order of Mike’s Hot Honey, another local Brooklyn fave.

So thems the visual highlights, but the good folks over at Your Brooklyn Guide really tell a whale of a tale on every Brooklyn pizza joint you may have had no idea even exists. A bit of a history lesson, it delivers a beyond satisfying read, and one severe gastronomical teasefest.

Do us all a favor, head on over to read all about it. Then grab a date (or not, we’re not judging) and getcho za ON!