It was blanketed with a creamy, melt-in-your-mouth-like-buttah burrata, which was nicely balanced by large slices of prosciutto. I feel like I have a tendency to say this when I try a new, unbelievable pizza place… but this was one of my favorite pizzas ever. It was one of the daily specials, and sure enough, “special” is a perfect way to describe it. The second pie we ordered absolutely stole the show.

Sadly, the pizza tour was not available the day we were planning to visit, but it got me thinking… why don’t we do our own mini tour?! I decided it would be fun to sample a more artisan style and a traditional New York style. I also solicited advice from Scott of Scott’s Pizza Tours. I took to Twitter, and got a lot of suggestions from followers. It seems like a lot of the very highly acclaimed spots are actually in Brooklyn, but I wanted to stick to Manhattan since we only had the day. Naturally, I started doing a ton of research on the subject. And I love me some pizza… soooooo, we suddenly had a nice little itinerary.Īt that point… it was a matter of narrowing down which New York establishment we were going to sample our ‘Za. I hadn’t yet had a chance to visit Ground Zero yet, so I was on board for that. When I asked what he would like to see and do in NYC (keeping in mind we were only planning a day trip), the two things at the top of his list: the 9/11 Memorial and New York Pizza.

But now, with his daughter just two hours away in Connecticut, he wanted to see what the Big Apple was all about. As a wheat farmer from Montana, New York isn’t a place he ever had a reason to visit. When my dad and step sister came to visit last month, one of the items on Dad’s “bucket list” was to drive to New York City.

Pizza place near twin towers