Vinny Vella's Pizza

Elite '08

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Chris F.

Brooklyn, NY

I spent months avoiding this place because of its awful neon signed, generic appearance, but boy was I wrong.

The Vinnie's Grandma pie (a square thin-crust with tomato sauce, mozzarella, garlic, basil, and olive oil) is simple, yet an unexpected masterpiece.

Non-pizza menu items (like the salads and rice balls) don't live up to the joyousness of the Grandma's pie, so stick to the thin-crust pies here.

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Karin B.

Brooklyn, NY

When I walked by Vinnie Vella's, I glanced at the menu in the window and my heart skipped a beat. "Chicago--round, deep dish" on the menu.

Now, I grew up on Chicago-style pizza--we're talking big, fat two-inch-high crust, loaded with sauce and so much cheese you could choke on it if you're not careful. It had been years since I'd had Chicago-style pizza--certainly not while I've been in NYC so I was psyched while I waited for the arrival of our Chi-style pizza from Vinny Vella's.

The buzzer rang. I raced down the steps and flung open the front door to greet the delivery guy who stood there holding my pizza and I knew right away. Wah wah wah wahhhhh......

The box was a regular, old pizza box that he casually held with one hand. Now, Chi-style pizza weighs at least 10 pounds and there was no way that a two-inch-high crust was crammed in that one-inch-high pizza box.

No, what was crammed in that box was a round, thick-crust pizza. The smattering of cheese that was maybe once on the pie was stuck to the top of the box. There was no Chicago-style pizza from Vinny Vella's for me--instead, there was only tomato sauce covered pizza crust, the most disappointing delivery in recent memory.

And so my quest for Chicago-style pizza in NYC continues...

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