NY/NJ Pizza - willing to drive, where to go?

[Anonymous]

Live in NoVa. CRAVING NY/NJ pizza - nothing special, just what you get in any neighborhood pizza shop there. Looking for something that isn't Wiseguys or the Italian Store. Where would you go? I'm willing to drive as I have time this weekend, even if it's northern Md or even Delaware, though not going so far as to you to NJ lol. Obviously open to local options too. Need not be anything special, just someplace clean and good pizza. Where would you go?

[Anonymous]

Have you tried Andy’s at the Galleria mall in Tysons? Before driving 3 hours you should try that.

[Anonymous]

Have you tried Valentino’s in Alexandria on Little River Turnpike? I really like it and the slices - like in NY - are huge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Live in NoVa. CRAVING NY/NJ pizza - nothing special, just what you get in any neighborhood pizza shop there. Looking for something that isn't Wiseguys or the Italian Store. Where would you go? I'm willing to drive as I have time this weekend, even if it's northern Md or even Delaware, though not going so far as to you to NJ lol. Obviously open to local options too. Need not be anything special, just someplace clean and good pizza. Where would you go?

You're willing to drive to DE, but not to NJ? It's like 12 extra miles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you tried Andy’s at the Galleria mall in Tysons? Before driving 3 hours you should try that.

Andy's is good pizza, but it's not NY/NJ pizza.

I am on a similar quest. This is the list I got from the local DC reddit forum:
Andy's
Wise Guys
Brooklyn on U
Little CoCo's
Flippin"

I tried Andy's first as that one had the most recommendations. haven't hit up the others yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Live in NoVa. CRAVING NY/NJ pizza - nothing special, just what you get in any neighborhood pizza shop there. Looking for something that isn't Wiseguys or the Italian Store. Where would you go? I'm willing to drive as I have time this weekend, even if it's northern Md or even Delaware, though not going so far as to you to NJ lol. Obviously open to local options too. Need not be anything special, just someplace clean and good pizza. Where would you go?

You're willing to drive to DE, but not to NJ? It's like 12 extra miles.

Lol true but not being from the NJ/DE line, I don't offhand know where to go there either. After crossing the DE line, I'd be driving another hour north - and I was hoping for a rec in southern Del, just over the MD border.

[Anonymous]

Corner slice in Bethesda is the closest we’ve found and we’ve been looking for 10 years.

[Anonymous]

NY pizza sucks.

New Haven style is the best. Pepe's at Montgomery Mall is the best but still not as good as the original in New Haven, CT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NY pizza sucks.

New Haven style is the best. Pepe's at Montgomery Mall is the best but still not as good as the original in New Haven, CT.

Whatever New Haven is fine too. Just not looking for Virginia pizza.

[Anonymous]

OP just cross the line to New Jersey and you are good. Skip Delaware.

Nicky B's I think is off of I95
Ralphs same

Anything crossing the boarder into Jersey will be heads and tails better than any of the garbage they serve in MD<VA Or Del

[Anonymous]

I think this place is decent: https://www.tonysnypizza.com/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you tried Valentino’s in Alexandria on Little River Turnpike? I really like it and the slices - like in NY - are huge.

This, or Mamma Lucia’s in Fairfax in the Fair City Mall (it’s in the section where the movie theater is). Those are the two in NoVA I’d recommend. They really are like proper NY/NJ style slices. Try them first.

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Anonymous wrote:Live in NoVa. CRAVING NY/NJ pizza - nothing special, just what you get in any neighborhood pizza shop there. Looking for something that isn't Wiseguys or the Italian Store. Where would you go? I'm willing to drive as I have time this weekend, even if it's northern Md or even Delaware, though not going so far as to you to NJ lol. Obviously open to local options too. Need not be anything special, just someplace clean and good pizza. Where would you go?

You're willing to drive to DE, but not to NJ? It's like 12 extra miles.

Lol true but not being from the NJ/DE line, I don't offhand know where to go there either. After crossing the DE line, I'd be driving another hour north - and I was hoping for a rec in southern Del, just over the MD border.

I am a firm believer that if you are from NY or NJ, the best pizza you'll ever have is from your hometown pizza place (for me, Pizza Como in Clinton, NJ). But, out of curiosity, I have found the Italian Store to be an acceptable substitute (certainly better than a 2 hour drive). You don't agree?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NY pizza sucks.

New Haven style is the best. Pepe's at Montgomery Mall is the best but still not as good as the original in New Haven, CT.

Whatever New Haven is fine too. Just not looking for Virginia pizza.

Lol Virginia oizza. I know what you are talking about. Okay if you are taking nominations for worst pizza it would be the ubiquitous, truly terrible Ampersand pizza

The most decent? Pete’s new haven style Apizza in friendship heights (rip their Columbia heights location)

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Anonymous wrote:Live in NoVa. CRAVING NY/NJ pizza - nothing special, just what you get in any neighborhood pizza shop there. Looking for something that isn't Wiseguys or the Italian Store. Where would you go? I'm willing to drive as I have time this weekend, even if it's northern Md or even Delaware, though not going so far as to you to NJ lol. Obviously open to local options too. Need not be anything special, just someplace clean and good pizza. Where would you go?

You're willing to drive to DE, but not to NJ? It's like 12 extra miles.

Lol true but not being from the NJ/DE line, I don't offhand know where to go there either. After crossing the DE line, I'd be driving another hour north - and I was hoping for a rec in southern Del, just over the MD border.

I am a firm believer that if you are from NY or NJ, the best pizza you'll ever have is from your hometown pizza place (for me, Pizza Como in Clinton, NJ). But, out of curiosity, I have found the Italian Store to be an acceptable substitute (certainly better than a 2 hour drive). You don't agree?

New p here, I will add to this that I think everyone wants their hometown pizza. I’m from the Midwest and miss pizza from my hometown. I don’t expect DC to reproduce it though. My family who lives here in DC thinks it’s horrible. I get it when I go visit.