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Hello I'm Jamie and this is Ben. If this is the first time you've peered into our
fridge then have a look around there's plenty to enjoy. Now loads of you've been
loving our 'London's Best' series so we thought...why not branch out?
Welcome to the home of some the best pizzas in the world, New York City
You know how this works, three of us have done loads of research about three pizza
places. We're gonna eat it and we're gonna argue about it. But here's the
difference, we're being joined by a world-class pizza eater it's Alex from
Bon Appetit. Hi guys! And before you start bitching, we're sticking in Manhattan
For my choice we've come, of course, to Little Italy. The place to get New York's best
pizza. It's a restaurant that's been around for the last 56 years
it's called Rubirosa and they are incredibly well known for having the
best pie
It's Friday lunchtime and you can't book. It is rammed.
Yeah you saw how busy it is, we're gonna come back in an hour
We've placed our order in the meantime James is going to take us to whatever place he's found.
Listen I don't see how these guys are going to beat me when my place has been around
for over a hundred years. They know how to make pizza. Okay this is
Lombardi's, it is the first pizzeria in America. Yeah this place opened in 1905 and it's
been acknowledged in the Pizza Hall of Fame. I have been here before I
haven't been here and maybe like five years. I remember it being good but I haven't been here in
five years so I guess that says something. We're gonna get an original Margherita. We're gonna get a large one.
I mean all right I'm gonna say this right off the bat this doesn't look like
a New York pizza. Crust looks good the sauce to cheese ratio way too way too
hard leaning to the sauce. This is getting technical I'm not used to having competition
It's all about the crimp a gentle a gentle pull. That's how to do it.
You want good pizza sauce should be simple. Tomatoes, no tomato paste. A lot of people
will put tomato paste into the sauce because the original tomatoes aren't
that great and they want more tomato flavor. And then salt a little bit of
garlic a little bit of olive oil that's all I want tin pizza sauce. This sauce
is really good but I want more cheese on this. It's a delicious crispy base. It
crunches and it chews. Massive hit of basil. I think when you get that cheese you get
a creaminess and the sauce is a little bit acidic. It all works together
I don't think he's convinced that this is the best. I think he's I think he's
trying to convince us and himself. I don't need to convince anybody this is the
best
Jamie is famous for concentrating more on novelty than taste. I have...it
seems he's gone for the vodka sauce pie. Vodka sauce is one of the great things
in the world in my opinion. So Jamie's already earned points from me
Well I've had a Bloody Mary...What separates a vodka sauce from a tomato sauce? Vodka.
It's just the addition of vodka to tomato sauce? No. Great. It's not. I'm so
glad. There's no actual the crushed tomatoes in vodka sauce it's tomato
paste, cream, garlic, onion. Like what you said people put into a sauce in case
the tomatoes taste really bad?
Yeah. I think we're comparing apples and pears here
What this is is New York's best pizza. Shall we taste it? I say a cheese to
tomato sauce ratio is perhaps even more off. There are wide wide rivers of sauce
You literally learnt that was a thing five minutes ago. I'm now applying the
learning. Who are you Barry Taylor? I'm gonna apply another learning perhaps the
addition of cream in the sauce offsets that slightly. Okay you do get a double dose of creaminess
the sauce is less tomato. Don't let the vodka sauce name fool you. I was
expecting to eat a Bloody Mary on a pizza. I don't mean to laugh at him
Feels like it needs a little bit of spice. What I'm missing is that kick of basil
Obviously you get the crisp from that base you're not gonna get base up here and
it not be crispy but that combined with the soft on the
top from where the sauce has been and the cheese has been, it's creamy. All of
that combined is just delicious. I will say this: some gimmicks don't work some
do. Vodka sauce on pizza is pretty great. Okay for some reason this New York Pizza
episode the first two pieces we've had were chosen by Brits. This is all well
and good but let the American show you where the best
pizza is. Right so we're headed to where the best pizza in New York is
we're walking through the Lower East Side we might throw a topping on there
get a little frisky maybe even pepperoni. I'm hearing a lot of talk
about this being the first New York Pizza so if that's the case then I'm
really interested to see what the big deal is. We're queued up.
I've got Cuban music. There's a beer on the way. I know that there's pizza on the way. So I'm having a great time.
I glimpsed the pizza on the way in and I am concerned.
Scarrs is the best for a couple reasons one the ingredients he uses
Scarr uses in his pizza unparallel he doesn't advertise any of this but he's
milling his own grains every morning in the basement of this shop to make his
flour. I feel like we've been led down a garden path and someone's been really
polite up until now and is now just laying the death shot down but you know
what we do in this situation...
We got it with some pepperoni on top. We haven't had any meat today. I always
thought the traditional way of making New York pizza was no toppings. If
you doing a plain pizza sure.
Jamie said a thing and didn't back anything up. As long as it doesn't go over board with the toppings.
No yeah this pizzas all about balance. Exactly.
I know you're like a guest and we should give you a little bit of respect. But you're
taking the *****
It's kind of unfair. You've got pretty crispy on the bottom right but like there's
that chewy layer that's right on top so you get the chew and the crisp you can
see the sauce through the cheese like there's cheese on here but there's just
as much sauce. Pepperoni cup the pepperoni cups you're like right along
the edge. Super crispy grease in the middle like this is just a flavor bomb
and it's balanced. I mean obviously adding the pepperoni takes an already
great high up to the next level anyway. But the texture
with that base is so moist. Do you know what I'm kind of missing the basil like the big
hit of basil. That was very good, I think we might need to have a chat.
Altright you guys hopped across the pond showed up in New York City. First time truly
diving into the pizza scene. What were your thoughts what were your opinions? I think to come
to New York and try New York's best pizza for the first time and
actually find the best place it's quite an impressive feat. I may have used this
analogy before. Pizza is like sex there's no such thing as bad pizza
but I also think today we found really really great pizza.
So as the only neutral in the group I thought I've had three fantastic pizzas
but two of which I feel like I could have had anywhere in the world and thenm
still be 2 fantastic pizzas. But only one of them was a New York pizza and
therefore New York's best pizza. Let's talk money I mean how much do we
reckon James' was. I would say the average average plain pie in the city
from just a very run-of-the-mill pizzeria it's probably 18 bucks for a
large. Ok so you went for a margherita. Basic but beautiful. 16 bucks. But we were in
the oldest pizzeria in America and I think they're going to play off that
when it comes to cash. 22. I would say 19 bucks. Oh no even 20
even 20. My pizza was 24.50.
Right what you reckon we pay for mine. Rubirosa Pie I would say 25 bucks but
based off what James' was it was a posher establishment. If you were eating
in yeah I'd say like 26. I'm gonna say 22. you thought my pizza was worth less than
yours? It was 28 dollars and 31 cents
Do you guys reckon you know how much this Scarrs pie went for? I've got a funny feeling it's
cheap and annoyingly cheap I reckon like 22. Quality wise I want to say it's
really expensive but being thereI wanna say it's really cheap and therefore
my answer is $20 on the nose. I'm gonna say 24. Plain pie 22 with pep 26
That's a lot of pizza for the money. Well if that hadn't already have been the winner I think
that's like cemented it for me. Like I said I'd go to scarrs if I was showing
someone around but I feel like they serve really different purposes.
I'm discounting Jamie's a little bit right now even though it was delicious. Hey mate. Soz.
If I'm looking for like dirty greasy pizza that's just absolutely delicious
and explodes in my mouth with flavor. Scarrs and I'm looking for something
fresh something like I could probably have eaten that whole pizza I'd probably go
to Lombardi's. Guys what do you think did we pick the right one? Would you pick
something completely different? You're probably already going nuts in
the comment section down below but if not, now's the time!
As you can tell, Alex knows his stuff when it comes to food.
Bon Appetit YouTube channel we're doing everything we're doing home cooking
videos we're doing funny fermentation videos I have a series where I go to
different cities and eat a completely ridiculous amount of a single food in
one day to figure out what the best is. Actually just I guess this is why you
guys have me on I just did a best New York slice video so if you guys want to
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I'm James I'm a chef. I'm an American I know pizza. I'm Barry Taylor, I take photos.