What's going on members of the Barrio
It's Jon and today we're going to be exploring one of the cheapest food phenomenons
In New York City
Dollar pizza slices
I'm going to be visiting five different places
Taking the dollarp izza challenge
We're going to be ranking each of them
And coming up with a winner
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I've brought Adriana along as my assistant for today
You know you're not the biggest pizza fan
But are you ready for this?
I'm absolutely ready
Let's do it
First one
Stop nubmer one is in midtown
We're going to be a place called 1 dollar pizza
Aptly named
And let's get this party started
Looks delicious
So guys here how this is going to work
I'm going to be ranking each place between a 1 and a 5
Denoted by those pizza slices below
And we got really lucky with stop number 1
These are fresh out of the oven
So here we go
First bite of the day
This is good
This is really good
I need like two or three more bites to make an opinion
But right now i'm not really overwhelmed by anything
Which is really important for a dollar pizza slice
You don't want to much cheese
You don't want to much sauce
You don't want it super hot
super cold
This is just right
I'm going to go with a four here
Now I haven't tried the other ones yet today
We are off to a really good start
I like the fact that it's crunchy
Yeah pretty good for one dollar huh?
It's really crunchy
And the cheese
Tastes really good
The bar has been set pretty high after stop number 1
We're going to be hopping all around Manhattan
Stop number 2 is by Canal Street
So we've got to take the subway downtown
We're almost at stop number 2
And I do want to note how I selected these locations
I actually picked 5 spots off of Yelp.com
That had pretty good reviews
So I didn't want to waste my time at any really bad spots
Joey's Pepperoni Pizza
Loving this South Park style mascot here
Dollar in price but not dollar in size
These are definitley bigger than the last ones no?
Yes, definitley
Alright guys here we go
Taste test number 2
A little heavy on the cheese i'm going to say
I need another bite to determine the score though
Not loving it, going with two
Good size, good size if you're hungry
But actual taste compared to the last place we were at
Definitley leaning on that one
This one is a little bit greasy
And it's not crunchy
So let's see
I think 2
Alright stop number 2 is in the books
We're going to be heading to the East Village for stop number 3
Going to hop on the 6 train and this place was actually the highest rated on Yelp
We are 2 bros Pizza
In the heart of the East Village on St. Marks
This is actually a chain but I've personally been to this place before
I'm excited to see how this matches up
Now that i've already tried two other spots
Love the chicken slices
Two dollar slices
Two things i've noticed about this pizza
One is that it's probably the thickest slice so far
Two is also looks like the greasiest one
But the taste will be the judge
Here we go
Pretty good
I like the crunchiness of this
Very hot as well
One more bite to determine
Solid i'm going to give this 3
Somewhere in the middle right now
I really do like the thickness of this crust though
It's greasy.. but it's crunchy
Better than the last one
We are leaving the East Village and heading to Greenwich Village for the final 2 stops on our dollar pizza challenge
So it's all walking distance from here on out
Adriana is tapped out
You're done
No mas?
No mas pizza.
No mas pizza
Alright guys for stop number 4 we're going to 99 cent fresh pizza
This is kind of what I envision a dollar pizza place to be like
It's tiny
You get in, you get out
Thank you very much
This one kind of reminds me of like a high school cafeteria style pizza
A little greasy
Thickness is okay
But let's give it a whirl
Crunchy..
A little heavy on the cheese though
I'm going to go with 2 out of 5 on this one
Nothing special
But again for a dollar
Get in, get out
And i'm also amazed at how busy these places can be
How quickly they get their customers their slices
Seems like a really good business model
One more slice to go
And we are actually heading to my favorite dollar pizza place
Because it is the closest to my apartment
We're going to see, am I going to look at Percy's in a different light
after trying 4 other dollar slices beforehand
This is what you do when it comes right out of the oven
Percy's has to at least tie or beat the 4 star ranking I gave to dollar pizza
In Midtown
Here we go
Wow
That's actually very good
It's going to be closer than I thought
Good cheese to sauce ratio
Crunchy
I'll give it another bite
I'm going to give this 4
But i'm still going to give the victory to dollar pizza in midtown. Just by a little bit if I had to pick between these two.
Percy's you deserve 4 stars for a very solid dollar slice
Alright members of the Barrio I don't know if I'm ever going to be able to look at dollar pizza the same way again
After trying 5 different places
But dollar pizza is the winner
So definitley check them out
On 9th ave between 50th and 51st streets
Well worth the trip
Trust me
Tell me in the comments if you like this challenge
What your favorite place was
Or if they have dollar pizza where you come from
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Until next time