By West Side Rag
Last week, The New York Times put together its list of “The 22 Best Pizza Places in New York Right Now,” and an Upper West Side eatery made the ranking.
The Times sampled 79 of the city’s most popular pizzerias and came up with a list of the 22 best.
The lone UWS pizza place to make the list? Mama’s Too Pizzeria at 2750 Broadway, between West 105th and 106th streets.
“When Frank Tuttolomondo started selling thick, square slices from his parents’ Upper West Side pizzeria, he was shunned as a heretic,” The New York Times wrote about Tuttolomondo, the founder and owner of Mama’s Too. “’I couldn’t give them away,’ he said. He found an audience after opening his own pizzeria a block away, where slices with fried chicken, cacio e pepe and street corn became standard protocol.”
Tuttolomondo’s parents run Mama’s Pizzeria, the longtime joint at the nearby 941 Amsterdam storefront, off the corner of 106th Street.
The different pies dished out at Mama’s Too include:
- Angry Nonna with hot soppressata, aged mozzarella, Calabrian chili oil, and hot honey.
- Poached Pear with aged mozzarella, poached pear, sweet gorgonzola, and hot honey.
- 18th Avenue with fennel sausage, mozzarella, and roasted peppers.
- Bufalina with beer-battered fried chicken, red devil sauce, gorgonzola crema, roasted chili powder, and chopped scallion.
Other pizzerias in the five boroughs to be featured in the recent New York Times ranking were Joe’s Pizza in Greenwich Village, John’s of Bleecker Street in the West Village, L’Industrie in Williamsburg, and Roberta’s in Bushwick.
