New Yorkers are fortunate to have quality pizza. In Toronto, it is quite difficult to find it, you have to go to Montreal to find really good pizza in Canada.

I live 30 miles east of the City now and it might as well be a million miles away... the pizza out here in the suburbs SUCKS!

Really? We ate at Il Fornello on King Street the last time we were in Toronto. We found the food, including the pizza, to be very good. It was also pretty reasonably priced. Like I've said in the past, though, I've been to Toronto several times, and I've never had a bad meal.

SC, I have to say, we're pretty lucky. We have some great pizza locally. We even have a place that makes REAL Italian ices.

Not so here on the Island, SB. Considering how many people moved from Brooklyn and Queens to here, it's surprising that the food didn't travel well.

SC, do you remember the Pizza King in Rockville Center, just over the border from Queens? It was a quasi-nightclub that had dancing to jukebox, and that served Italian food.

No, TB, I didn't make it out to the Island much then. The eastern extent of my pizza travels was down on Cross Bay Blvd... there was a place called Pizza City (this was back in the '50s) that my dad used to take me on the way back from Rockaway Point. It was all swamplands then and this was more of a drive-in type place (favored by bikers). Many years later, when I was driving the cab, I had a fare out to the area and saw the pizza place still standing. I can't begin to tell you how many memories came flooding back. I, of course, stopped off for a few slices.

By that time the area was built up and Gotti's hangout was a few blocks away.

It might be the competition, but there are two great pizza places not far from my house, and they're diagonally across the street from one another. There's Nanuet Hotel (which hasn't been a hotel in God knows how long) and Martio's. They both make excellent pizza, both thin crust and Sicilian. The local debate is endless - Hotel vs. Martio's. Everyone has their preference, and mine is Martio's. Martio's also makes an excellent pasta fagioli, and has great ices and housemade gelati.

That a little more fancy. I'm talking about a neighborhood pizzeria, that type of thing.

I see what you mean. It was very good, though.

This thread is killing me! Living in Florida means a never ending search for a mediocre pizza by NY standards. They just do not make 'em very well here. I kid you not, many people think Pizza Hut is good.

SC, thanks to this thread, we got a pie from Martio's and a pint of lemon ice last night. It was delicious.

Your search is over dontomasso!

Leo's Pizza & Italian Restaurant on Alt 19 in Palm Harbor Florida makes a really excellent Pizza pie. Definitely up to NY standards.....

...And their Italian food is very good too.

Yeah, try the veal - it's the best in the city!

Signor V.

If you were headed south on Cross Bay Boulevard at that time, you would first have encountered Big Bow Wow. My folks always took us there, and then to Pizza City--massive one-two punch. After a day at the beach, Weiss's, at the other end of Cross Bay Boulevard, was the last stop.

Update on DiFara's:
My sister in law tells me that he frequently closes early on Friday and Saturday nights, posting a sign: "Out of dough." (ha-ha, at $5 a slice). Her son and daughter in law visited on a Sunday afternoon recently. She called to order a pie at 4 p.m. and got a message: "If you have received this message, there is a two and a half hour wait for a pie."

CiCi's

That scene in Saturday Night Fever when Vinnie was walking and eating the pizza, what was the place where he got it? Is that typical NY pizza that you can fold over. That's the kind of pizza I like.

Yep.

Not that it's any comparison, but Dominoes has a "Brooklyn style" pizza (that you can fold - it has a slightly thinner crust that isn't crispy).

It was filmed on 86th Street in the Bensonhurst section - a predominantly Italian section. That's where the car chase scene in "The French Connection" started.

When I was in New Jersey plawrence and I got a slice of pizza at a local place. He took his pizza back up to the counter because he could not fold it. The worker was Asian, and could not understand why he was so upset. I could just hear him say, "How can I eat it if I can't fold it. It was kind of funny really. In the end, he got his other slice of pizza.

Lenny's Pizza was the name of the place where they filmed the "two, two, gimmee two" scene. And let me tell you that they really had great pizza.

There were so many great neighborhood places like that years ago. I used to love to go to the window and order a slice and a Coke, or get an Italian ice when it was hot out.

Remember the window at Pizza Time on 238th Street, right off White Plains Road, Babe?

You better, that's your old neighborhood!

I can't tell you how many times I left Act III Nightclub (remember that Gindaloon place? ), drunk out of my mind, and ate four slices at four in the morning! Peppino's, on 241st and White Plains Road, was better, but Pizza Time was right next door.

For the record, this would be around 1980. Pizza Time has been gone for awhile, but Peppino's is still there.

My favorite was Lisa's on 233rd and White Plains Road. There was also a place called Frank and Dom's (I think) on White Plains Road between 234th and 235th that was really good.

And for a real sit-down dinner, there was Sorrento's. What was that, 231st and White Plains Road??

I remember every one of those places, Babe. Don't forget, I went to Mount. They're all gone now.

Sorry, everyone I knew went to Spellman.

Spellman is where the smart kids went.

Yeah. They can spell, man.

Metro Detroit's Best Pizzas. I like Pizza Papalis and Buddy's the best.

Best Pizzas of Metro Detroit

Heeeyyy. Lilo's back!!

But what's a brother from Detroit know about pizza?