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I freaking loved eating pizza here! There is absolutely nothing I did not like about this place. The price of $2.75 for a Monstrous slice of pizza is unbelievable. They have to serve it on two plates just to hold its glorious volume. I think the prices have gone up a quarter since then, but it's still the only thing in the NYC/NJ area that isn't exorbitantly expensive (especially relative to prices seen when growing up in the midwest).
You can grab it to go on your way to the PATH train, or grab a chair in their outdoor seating on Washington Street. They even serve beer! What's not to love?
Ran in here today to try their pizza since it's considered best in Hoboken by some (FYI - I've been to Grimaldi's...it's 3 stars tops). Here's the rundown:
-Pizza - 4 stars - a bit greasy is the only negative (really thought the monster sizing of the slice would somehow make it mediocre - I was wrong). However, Filippo's still wins best slice in Hoboken for me.
-Price - 5 stars because a truly monstrous slice is $3 (w/ tax)
-Service - table service sucked...1-2 stars and the primary reason Tudino's isn't getting 5 stars
-Atmosphere - outdoor seating on Washington with a monster slice is money
Giovanni's and Tudino's are constantly at war (and in collaboration) with each other. Tudino's has the bigger slice, while Giovanni's has the better taste. I think both of them are pretty average.
You will most definitely get a HUGE slice of pizza from Tudino's. However, I don't really think it's that great. Nothing terribly impressive about it other than its ginormous size and late hours (where it makes a lot of its money. This is Hoboken after all.)
I haven't had this pizza in years but whenever I'm back in Hoboken I make my way to get their pizza. They used to deliver their large slice of pizza in a box to my apartment. It was so delicious and so inexpensive. Authentic pizza for sure! This is a must when you visit the NYC metro area!!!!
I read reviews about this place from several sources. Being a little newer to the Hoboken area, I thought, I'll give this pizza joint a try. Had a pepperoni pizza delivered. It was Halloween, had to wait over an hour, which okay, it was a busy night, no problem. But I was expecting heaven in a box. Wasn't there. The pizza was extra salty and the crust was okay, not great. Not to mention that 1/3 of the pizza crust was black and burnt. Maybe my expectations were a little too high, but I'm convinced that Giovanni's is better tasting than Benny's! I'll have to try a few more pizzerias in town to see where my tastebuds sing!
Columbians rejoice! Benny Tudino's Pizzeria (http://www.hobokenmenu...) offers the same GIANT $3 slices of pizza -- cooked slightly crisp on the bottom with slightly chewy dough, sweet tomato sauce and gooey cheese -- that we've grown accustomed to enjoying at Koronet Pizza on Broadway and 111th Street.
You want toppings on your pizza? FUGGEDABOUTIT! You're not coming here for the toppings. All of their giant slices (except for pepperoni) begin life as a 32" cheese pie. Toppings are sprinkled on a plain slice, tossed in the oven for a couple of minutes, and served up. As a result, the toppings don't get the opportunity to get really incorporated into the cheese.
There's little more nostalgic and satisfying to me than a $3 giant slice of greasy, piping hot pizza after a couple of pitchers of beer.. but, wait.. unlike Koronet Pizza, Benny Tudino's Pizzeria has a liquor license! The powers that be in Hoboken have graciously permitted us to guzzle down beer or wine while enjoying a giant slab of pizza. Hallelujah!
I'm undecided about this place. Its pretty good, but I think they're definitely overrated. Although I have yet to discover Hoboken's best pizza, I don't think Benny Tudino's is it.
Where they lack in flavor, they make up for it the size of their slices. They are absolutely huge! I've gone in starving and ordered two slices, fooling myself that I could actually eat them. No way... after 1 slice, I'm completely full. Prices are good, too.
But overall, I just don't think its fabulous. The flavor isn's there... I'm not crazy about the sauce they use. The pizza's good, but I wouldn't go out of my way for it. Maybe not Hoboken's best slice, but certainly Hobken's biggest slice.
I cannot understand how people actually enjoy the pizza here!!!! Yeah, it's a big slice at a reasonable price but it tastes like sh*t. People who go here and enjoy the pizza usually were out drinking all night and need a quick fix. I was sooooooo disappointed with the pizza. I would rather pay for 2 slices of "normal" pizza as opposed to this garbage. You want real pizza, go further up 495/3 to Clifton/Nutley...this place couldnt hold a shred of mozz to any place in those areas!
Although the pizza is large, I find the flavor a little lacking and the cheese tends to not sit right on the pizza.
Its nice that is open late though when other places in Hoboken are closed! And they have a few big tables so you can go here in a large group without needing them to push a million tables together.
Although there are many pizza places in Hoboken, its one that's good to visit from time to time, but its surely not my favorite.
I love Hoboken. Not just because I'm born and raised New Jersey, but because they have Benny Tudino's. Pizza aficionados rejoice...
PROS
-Monster slices. We're talking huge here. One slice is easily two slices at any other joint.
-Classic NY/NJ style pizza. They're not serving the gormet tofu pies... these pies are hot, greasy, and cheesy; the way they're supposed to be. It reminds me of the slice you rode your bike to get after a long day in the summer sun as a kid.
-It FEELS like a pizzeria. There are pictures of famous italians on the wall and the placemats are made of paper. The people that work there are nice, but they don't take crap either. Not to mention they serve beer (Peroni to boot).
-Outdoor seating on Washington Street.
CON
-Once I burned the top of my mouth on their pizza. It's not their fault though. I was really hungry.
Best place in New Jersey once coming home from a Yankee game we went to the near by mickey ds and they did not have bugers so we went there
If you want a monster slice to fill you up with a fountain soda or cold beer, Benny's is where you want to be. It's cheap and tasty. Is it the best pizza in Hoboken, no, but it's tasty and one slice is enough to tide you over for a meal. I'm serious, their slices are like the size of a small child. One thing I don't like about Benny's - if you want a topping, they throw it on top and put it in the oven, it's not baked in with the cheese, unless you order a pie. But, if you come to Hoboken, don't miss out on a Benny's slice - it's a must!
This place is my favorite pizzeria! Their giant slices fill you up and taste great. I also love the atmosphere and the service is pretty good too. I have no complaints about Benny's. It's going to be tough finding a replacement for this place when I move back to Florida next year.
Their slices are always great, truly good tasting pizza.
ok the slice is big but lacking taste , flavor and grasey . other places i,ve tried in hoboken got much butter pizza than penny, never go to penny any more.
This is real pizza! Although San Francisco is full of fabulous food, they don't know how to make a proper slice of pizza. I was in pure heaven when I had one of Benny Tudino's super-sized paper thin slices free of all the crap they throw on pizza on the west coast. I wish this place delivered cross country!
You get a lot for your buck, but the taste is just average.
When my out-of-town friends visit, they are always amazed by the fact that the pizza is bigger than your face.
However, they are also equally content with a 30 pack of Natty Ice and cafeteria Jamaican beef patties (bad combination that night), so they are very low maintenance.
The pizza slices are ridiculously big. It's about the size of 1.5 slices of 3 brothers pizza down by Belmar (if anyone's familiar with the jersey shore). For the size of the slice, they make it well and it's VERY cheap. The crust is on the thinner side & slightly crispy (I'm a thin crust type of girl).
The workers are nice too. I went there the other night when they were getting closer to closing time & ordered 6 slices of pizzas. They gave us 2 extra slices for free.
Overall, great for the price & size. In the big scheme of the pizza world, it's decent (but not AMAZING - hence the 4 stars).
I wanna say that this is the best pizza Ive ever had but as a New Yorker - thats not gonna happen.
This is definitely the biggest Ive ever had. I went with a handful of friends for a birthday thing - and he refused to order anything else but a plain house pizza. He made a good call.
The pizza was made perfectly - no rawness, no burnt sides, fluffy crust. Most pizza Ive had are usually doused with grease but this was not. When you fold most slices, the grease usually runs down some end, and sometimes down your arm. This was not the case with Benny's.
Granted the slice was big but I was up for seconds.
The atmosphere was cozy and the waitress was witty. We liked her. Its worth going through the Holland.
Perfect for the summer. A nice slice and some draft beer in a plastic cup. Sign me up?
Would I go here with my friends and family? No.
Would I head here after boozing it up elsewhere? Yes.
What can I say about this place - HUGE slabs of pizza, almost pornographic in their size. Accompany these monstrous slabs with a Bass Ale, and you have the Ava Devine of Hoboken pizza parlors.
better than most new york pizza spots AND you can buy beer to drink with it. i wish every pizza place had a license to sell beer, especially in the summer.
my only gripe is that they didn't heat my pizza up on the 4th of july when i was in town. usually they don't have to heat up their giant slices because their business is so bustling that hot pizzas are always coming out of the oven. but not that time. now i'm shaking my fist in the air while removing a star from my rating and yelling "i'm angry about the room temperature thing!" oh, who am i kidding? i can't shake my fist in the air and type all this with one hand. i can tell you're going to try to make a joke right now, and that's okay.
here's what i think about your joke: your mother!
Fairly average quality pizza, above-average quantity.
They sell beer, that's the only reason I'm bumping it up to 3 stars.
Pizza here is *HUGE* and really really tasty.
I would have bumped this up to four stars had the buffalo wings not tasted like they were completely doused in vinegar.
It's definitely worth coming for the pizza though.
I agree with Anthony M. Same thing happened to my friends and i on St patty's. Raw pizza with raw sausage. Ppl were sick from eating there and not from st patty's day drinking and that is an utter shame
other than that, benny tudino's is regularly not that bad
Huge slices, great prices..... Highly recommend pepperoni with extra sauce. Good solid pizza
If you're in Hoboken and you've never been to Benny's, you owe it to yourself to stop by. The taste won't compare to, say, a personal brick oven pizza, but then again this is pizza by the slice. The slice is huge, which is an understatement in and of itself. If you order a pie, make sure you order the house pie and not just a regular pie. The house pie is the gargantuan sized one that's very filling. Prices per slice went up recently (all around Hoboken not just here), but $3 for the slice is the same as you pay across the street at Giovanni's, but you get about 30% more pizza for the buck.
I usually just get my slices plain or at most with Pepperoni. Don't try and order it with a bunch of random toppings as you won't appreciate the slice. Overall, my favorite pizzeria in the area - highly recommended.
Monster pizza by the slice is very good but not great; the pies are the same as any other pie.
Open late, which is great, but I really like the wings. They give you a side of sauce and a side of blue cheese with every order so you can flavor to taste, which is much better than some of the sloppy wings you can get from delivery.
A definite Hoboken staple that's worth a try if you've never been there (or if you have been there and know where to stop on the walk home at 2am!)
Ummm this place is amazing and a serious throw back to old school Italian Hoboken. Like the reviews below, the slices are HUGE. One slice is a normal pizzeria's two slices. Thick crust, thin pizza, tons of cheese all for less than 3$!!
I always bring out of towners here mainly to hear the shock in their voice when they put one slice on two paper plates. OMFG I will never eat this entire piece doesn't last long but no way can you eat two in one sitting unless you're ravenous!
Service is friendly and they remember you if you've been there more than once. The atmosphere reminds me of Brooklyn pizzeria's with old Italian celebrities and Mr.Tudino himself on the wall. I think if Sinatra was alive he'd frequent this joint and hang out with the other Hoboken old timers outside.
Fair warning: Once you come here, you'll have a hard time going anywhere else for pizza.
There's three categories of pizza, imo.
Great pizza, the kind that you cant stop eating no matter how much you've had, cause its soo delicious,
Really good pizza, the kind that every neighborhood used to have. Its great when you're in the mood, its nearby and convenient, and hits the spot,
and there's barely worth eating pizza, which seems to be the majority of places these days.
Benny's falls into the REALLY GOOD category. Wish i had a place like this in delivery range of my house. Thin crust, flavorful cheese and sauce, and just right.
Everyone knows that pizza places clutter the New York area, including Hoboken, the spare borough, like all our other infestations: rats, tourists, and Starbucks. How many Famous Ray's are there in Manhattan? I don't know, but I suspect it's four digits. One of the surest signs that New York is the greatest city on the planet is the density of our pizzeria population.
But all pizzas are not created equal.
There are the legends, of course. This or that shop with an Italian name for extra authenticity. There's that place in the West Village where the guy from the Daily Show yelled at Spider-Man in Spider-Man 2.
And there's Benny Tudino's.
Other reviews mention the size of the slice. If you're skimming this review, I need you to stop for a moment. Imagine a pizza, twenty inches in diameter. Now, cut it into quarters. That is not a slice of Benny's pizza. Add in a perfect combination of sauce, cheese, and soft but not doughy bread. There. That's the stuff.
This is the sort of slice Achilles devoured before laying the smack down on Hector. A single slice of Benny's pizza could demolish the entire UFC. If you're reading this and weird bruises started forming all over your body, it's because you were preemptively rocked by a slice of Benny's.
It goes without saying that the pizza is also well-priced. All this ranting would mean nothing if you actually had to pay for three slices when ordering one of Benny's. If this pizza were actually expensive, this would be a far different review, one telling you about my plans to commit arson. But the slices are very-well priced, so the place doesn't get burned down, and I stay out of prison! Yay!
I suppose you could order from Benny's without ordering a massive slice. It's possible. They have "large" pizzas on the menu, and I'm sure some jerkhole is ordering them. But you and I go way back, and I know you're not a jerkhole.
A friend told me my original review sucked... I have such sweet friends... so I caved to the peer pressure and am writing a review update.
When I said 'good size slices' I should have said 'big-ass slices.' That was my 'mistake' in the original review that sent my friend off. He was right though. The slices are actually huge. Hot subs and pasta dishes are quite good too. After a night of boozing there's no better value or late-night munch in Hoboken.
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I know I've eaten decent slices here in the past but...today they served me undercooked pizza and RAW pepperoni. Granted it was St. Paddys and Hoboken was a cluster-F. However, no excuses, no raw pizza, no matter what. They get 2 stars instead of 1 because the serve beer.
A slice that has to straddle 2 paper plates to stay horizontal a la the bigger the cushion the better the pushin'.
Served hot, tangy with the right amount of tomato, and cheesy but not cheezy.
$3 gets you just enough, not more not less, but definitely a perfect slice.
What a way to start my trip back home to the motherland!
Immediately upon returning to New Jersey, I requested the NY style of pizza that is oh-so-hard to find in Chicago. We headed over to Benny Tudino's for a quick lunch. Let me tell ya - the manner in which I devoured that 'za must have resembled how a long-time prisoner ravages a lady after years of confinement. Some of the best 'za I've had in ages.
Don't miss the garlic bread with cheese - it's covered with really fresh pieces of garlic. YUM.
It was a good thing I walked several miles from my buddy's place in Jersey City to Washington Street in Hoboken. We stopped at Benny's for a couple slices of their infamous house pizza.
I am telling you that one slice was about as big as the front of my torso, I am only slightly exaggerating. This behemoth is equivalent to a small pizza. We got half sausage and half pepperoni. The sausage was thin sliced the long way and was cooked perfectly. You can't go wrong with pepperoni, although it does get a bit greasy.
The pizza was fantastic, the waitress was very busy but also very friendly. She made a sincere effort to take care of us and all her customers efficiently, which is a surprise for New Jersey.
Being Saturday morning, I was pleased to see they had the Chelsea v. Manchester City football game on. Unfortunately Chelsea won 3-1 but John Terry got red carded!
You gotta check this place out. I recommend only one slice. Two slices did me in. I didn't eat the rest of the day. Good thing I did a lot of walking that day!
The best pizza in Hoboken, and for three dollars, the best value in town. It's a local institution, and if you want better, you have to travel to Harlem or Brooklyn. Plus the old-school staff, colorful born-and-bred locals and the ever-present Hoboken police make for all the ambiance you want in a local pizza icon.
These slices are serious amounts of HUGE. Great price for that much pizza.
So why only three stars? Not the greatest pizza ever and not the greatest service ever. We actually had a server get annoyed that we wanted refills on our drinks.
All in all? Yeah, I'll be back. One slice enough to feed a family of 5 is still enticing.
This pizza was pretty good, but since I am both a) super picky about pizza lately and b) having a lot of GOOD pizza lately, I think it would have been tough to make me super impressed. Good cheese, all right enough sauce, and a fluffier crust which is important to me. Awfully greasy, and required blotting each slice which I haven't done in a while (I think since an ex-boyfriend made fun of me and told me it made no difference). Good distribution of toppings, but the toppings are only okay. All in all, it was certainly fine enough, but whether or not I'm going to be chomping at the bit for more of their pizza remains to be seen, but I'm going to go with no.
ETA- Pretty lousy eggplant parm hero- sticking with my three stars...
This is the best pizza on the planet.
Benny's is famous for their overly large slices of pizza and is a late night grub spot for beer munchies.
I have found the pizza to be okay - not great by any means. You pay 3 bucks and get a humongous slice of pizza which is probably why ppl like it so much. I have tried it a few times, wasted I was a big fan, however the facade was over once I sobered up. Don't get me wrong its still good pizza but, I've had plenty that are better. In terms of late night pizza - Imposto's down on 1st and wash is better. You just get the most bang for you buck here.
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