today we're going on the ultimate new york pizza crawl we'll be visiting five
south brooklyn slice shops all with their own unique charms we're gonna be led by
a born and bred brooklynite who eats pizza for a living hope you brought your appetites
all right antonio doesn't get much better than luigi's it does not this is the place
you would see in a dictionary if you were to look up brooklyn pizzeria it would look just like this
i love making pizza i've never had to work a day in my life because this is the easiest
thing i have i could do and i think pizza is brooklyn italian tomatoes rich italian tomatoes
i love using my grande i float it on makes for a beautiful incredible pie some olive oil the magic
of pizza good olive oil 50 years of doing this there isn't a pie that comes out of this oven that
i don't look at and say wow i want a slice of that pot look at this reward we've got look at this
you know the last time i was here i kid you not a guy walked in and he said i'm bringing this box
to buffalo new york which is like eight hours away from my daughter yeah luigi's as of late
has become internationally known this pizza is made the old school way with love they don't cut
corners here the owner's there all the time and that's special that counts for something guys geo
is seeing how he inspects like every single pie that goes in that oven he is a man who is serious
and look i know in your review video you said it almost no flop here it's just a sturdy sturdy
slice and you know what i look for in a pizza is a nice balanced crust you want
you want it crunchy but you don't want it like a breadstick let's take a bite
oh my god i just love the flavor of this pizza man the cheese the tomatoes
everything is fresh really thin as well this is not your standard plain slice in new york it's
unique absolutely thinner than the typical new york slice it's really thin it's a lot thinner
than joe's in my opinion unlike other places everybody raves about new haven pizza folks
new york is where it's at you're not gonna find tourists here the people that are walking in here
a lot of them live in the neighborhood these are local places that's what i love best about
doing a south brooklyn tour this is the heart of bensonhurst right where i grew up man it was just
everything is a stone's throw away you didn't have amazon back then we didn't
need it you want to buy sneakers you want to buy clothes whatever it was there's there's a place
out on a bench in her streets changing huh you didn't have chipotle back then
antonio's in the zone right here because you grew up at this spot i feel like i'm home oh the
side of that sicilian you got to have the right knuckles to make the pizza you don't have the
right nothing you can't make the pizza on there i'm just admiring this right here getting real
all right thank you so much right long as i gain the ability to walk
i've been coming here i see the way you're looking at this place i see your eyes like the nostalgia
all right so we're just gonna pretend it's like your eight-year-old birthday party and you're
right back to where you started so many years ago i've had more birthday parties here than in
my own place you know we move around a lot nowadays people go from different apartments
every few years and so these places it's the same four walls and so you walk in and it's like
oh so much cheese on top and you were saying this is like a prototypical square slice not like ellen
b which is the upside down with the tomato on top we got the cheese just staring right at you there
yeah this is the classic quintessential new york sicilian style like i said we call it the square
but uh this is the main draw for many people they want all that cheese just more pizza cheers
looks so pillowy the texture so light so light kind of melts in your mouth i've never had a
slice quite like this one before most square pizza in new york city is very dense and spongy
it's so rare to find it like this light pillowy crispy crispy bottom it ends with a massive crunch
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gardens established 1939 new york city history right here there's no place like lmb you feel like
you're at a block party guys look at this it's like it's like a movie scene here it's a brooklyn
movie scene everyone's just outside enjoying themselves i mean it's brooklyn look i've been
here before i had a great time when it comes to the sicilian some people prefer the corner some
people prefer the side slice some people don't want any crust they want the full bang for your
buck sauce cheese spread to the edge and that's when you get the middle slice corner slice please
can i do a middle looks good i was fast like 10 seconds antonio i think it's important for
people to know that lmb is the godfather of the upside down slice they pioneered this style and
everybody loves it because you're getting a lot of sauce there's two cheeses on it more flavor for it
i oh the spongy crust and the tomato sauce like the flavor just jumps right out at you a little
bit sweet pretty unique for new york city you don't find this style of pizza too often there's
nothing like having an upside down sicilian at the place that pioneered this style the sauce
is a d stand out when you come to lmb absolutely i've been here john i can't i can't even count
the times this was my uncle's favorite spot these places become a part of you become part of your
your life in a way that you've never imagined huge groups are here a lot of families have brought
their kids i love that about these brooklyn pizza spots so these are like generational
destinations oh yeah true record for ellen being one sitting guys look at me five slices is nothing
i can do five slices but it's gonna knock me out for the rest of the day that's gonna be a really
long nap after i think a mom and a grandma eating pizza in the front seat of their car
like doesn't get much more broken than that everyone's in a rush in new york city guys i mean
i myself have paper plates in my glove compartment they say you can tell he's serious right here we
want to show you something that you probably haven't heard of before lucia pizza avenue x
you know what's on avenue x it's got to be dirty in like the best possible way right pretty damn
good food in the neighborhood of sheepshead bay exactly so how long have you guys been here
four months okay so i've been here for four months but my mother and my father had a place
for like 45 years okay what was it called papa leone stopped in 2017 and then in the pandemic
i came back started experimenting in mom and dad's backyard like wood-fired stuff mostly wood fired
stuff that's why the dough is really light and fun it's not a super traditional new york dog i mean
there's hundreds of pizza places in new york city how do you stand out as a new place i think it's
also about the lineage respectfully going back to like what my mother and my father did for so many
years yeah always room for improvement constantly learning new tricks as we go along innovation
was that a little ode to default the olive oil on top yeah i mean dom demarco over at the fara
nobody was putting basil on pizza before him i look for this stuff just looking at this we know
this is going to be absolutely fantastic it takes time dress this pizza up and he doesn't have to
put all the grated cheese on there and and that beautiful olive oil he doesn't have to do that
in new york you can make bad pizza and get away with it how i'm pumped let's try this i'm pumped
crunchy from the first bite you told me to look for that as soon as we got here loving the vodka
flavor it's just right and yes i do look for that crispy first bite i want that crispy first bite
and this pie delivers maybe we're seeing the evolution of new york pizza right now because
we have shown classic spots which are going to be here i hope forever you've got new spots like
lucia's here doing some artisanal stuff doing it a little bit different but still staying
true to the roots pizza is definitely evolving not just in new york city but all over the
world people are taking more time to ferment their doughs the crust looks almost wood-fired
i have to say like this tastes healthy to me as well good point john it makes it more digestible
as well yeah when you take time to ferment the dough i haven't been this impressed by a new
spot in a really long time dude you got pizza dance this is the pizza that makes me pants
this sucks that this is not in queens because i'd be going here every day for a second i
thought ben actually hated it scared me got you you know what they say that's
the skinny guys can really pack it in you would think i'd be finishing every crumb but i gotta
watch myself playing the offense playing defense defense wins championships offense gets the glory
carol gardens such a beautiful neighborhood we've got some business at baby luke's which
is the slice shop version of lucali one of the most famous pizza shops not just in brooklyn not
just in new york but in the entire world in the world world-class pizza absolutely loucali one
of my favorite pizzas this looks fantastic oh two slices margarito yes yeah no problem look at this
fresh out of the oven so vastly different than the other sicilians we had earlier
right that's what i love about today's video is that every spot has had a different flair to it
every single one to be a really good cheap date spot they have pre-made negroni's mezcal negroni
negroni and pizza who knew really i'm impressed with the looks of this pizza the last time i was
here i think i got a bad slice yeah this is looking really really aesthetically pleasing
on all levels it's got kind of a little hipster element to this place i'm serving cocktails you
know we've seen sicilian today that was really saucy like upside down slice and more traditional
this is more definitely on the artisanal side just look at those air pockets look at that look
at that aeration it's just so light there's a lot of a lot of spices herbs i'm tasting
a lot of flavor on this like very different than the other pizza we've had today so far the flavor
profile completely different i agree and that char has a nice smoky element to it and it goes so well
with the natural sweetness of a tomato sauce i just love that i just love that i love this
scene right here just staring at the beautiful brownstones of carol gardens this is totally a
vibe yeah if i had to pick one place in a city to live in this neighborhood makes top three at
least guys before i sit down i just gotta go one notch less on the belt we had quite a few slices
of pizza today or just do what i do and not have a belt period that helps a little bit yeah when you
hang out with john and do a pizza crawl leave your belt at home you know queens doesn't get enough
love for pizza fanatics visiting new york in this video right here we check out five amazing pizza
places in queens you'd be crazy not to visit these spots check out this video right here