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A plain slice from Best Pizza [Photograph: Jessica Leibowitz] As a New Yorker, I’m unfit to make the call on whether or not we have the best pizza in the world. It’s against my basic upbringing to even entertain the…

This is a guide that helps you quickly assess a pizza place in New York City. This is excellent because if you’re visiting New York City you may become overwhelmed with the amount of everything. 

There’s a pizza place on every corner, and next to that pizza place is another pizza place. If they can afford rent in Manhattan they must be good, right? Well now you can make that call by playing pizza detective. 

An aside: I’m glad DiFara pizza makes a cameo in the list of go-to places. I highly recommend making the pilgrimage, even though it’s kind of in the middle of nowhere and there’s an absurd line to battle.

I’m interested to see what a guide of this caliber would look like in other cities. Pittsburgh has some quirky places, and Oakland is full of pizza-traps. If a place is selling you a whole pie for $5 you’re in trouble. Imagine the corners they have to cut to make that profitable…

Anyways, it’s a solid read and worth carrying in your back pocket if you ever end up heading towards New York City. 

Di Fara's Pizza in Brooklyn -

I recently took a trip to Brooklyn, New York. The same area that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles got their start and, I’m guessing, their addiction to pizza. A turtle eating pizza makes total sense in a  place like Brooklyn. The pizza there is like an ambrosia passed down by the god. Every one of these pizzerias found their equivalent of Thor’s Hammer, but in the form of an ancient pizza oven.

While traveling through the Olympus of Pizza I did find one clear winner. And no, it was not that fried pizza from Forcella’s in Williamsburg.

One pizza place that understands the balance of the pizza triforce; a perfect blend of sauce, cheese, and crust.

A pizza place that knows how to deliver a fundamentally perfect pie and sidesteps gimmicks.

A pizza so perfect that it was crafted on Zeus’s anvil and delivered by pegasus himself. 

That place is DiFara in Midwood, Brooklyn. I was so inspired by my visit I put together a video chronicling what goes on at DiFara. I talk to some folks who waited an hour in line just to get into the pizza place, and a chef who goes into the nitty gritty of what makes DiFara the best.

Enjoy the video. I’ll have more on DiFara Pizza tomorrow.