Philomena's Pizza

May D. 3 months ago

We arrived just as they opened upon the recommendation from the YouTuber Babish. We ordered one of every slice for us to try (that is why every pizza is cut in half in the photo) and I am glad we gave this place a try. Philomena offers many solid pizza slices! I personally enjoyed the all square options, but other group favorites included the eggplant and raging bull. A quite a nice plus was that the owner so friendly and kind! Really put the cherry on top of a nice lunch

Glenn Henshaw 4 months ago

Philomena makes pizza with quality ingredients and creative styles and flavors. the picture I’ve included is of their vodka slice. Vodka sauce of course, ricotta cheese, and as for most of their non-grandma slices, they add grated Parmesan and fresh basil. As usual the crust has a great texture very fresh high-quality. I’ll say the same about the sauce. The choice of ricotta cheese had me suspicious at first. I don’t like ricotta cheese that much because it doesn’t have so much flavor. But since the vodka sauce was what was featured here in this slice, it fit very well. What I think is going on is that there’s a lot of sauce on this on this pizza. A lot of sauce can create bitterness but the ricotta cheese blends well and allows you to enjoy the sauce and the pizza in general. So for me this is one of the only cases where I like ricotta cheese. The owner is not willing to communicate about what he does— he’s kind of like ricotta . but I imagine he knows what he’s doing. Pretty good pizza.

Daniel 1010 6 months ago

I’ve been on a pizza craze for the longest comparing the best slices in nyc and wow this place caught me off guard out of no where and is the best slice I’ve had compared to all these mainstream pizza places. The way the dough is light but crispy but also chewy is incredible then the cheese to sauce ration with the option of putting stracciatella is beyond amazing this place is my new favorite in nyc

Nicole Tilford 6 months ago

Great flavor in all ingredients. No notes. My favorite bite surprisingly was the cherry tomato on the pesto slice. Such small attention to detail on these you can tell every ingredient was treated with care.

elton dedaj 7 months ago

The new top spot in nyc for modern artisan style pizza. I’ve traveled over 10 times already in the last month to have it since discovering them. Their dough is perfect and every time I come back it reaffirms to me how incredible it is. Compared to other top spots in the city like lindustry and jonnys on orchard st, this manages to stand out amongst all of them. Consistency has been 100% every time and you can feel the love in every bite and into the dough. Honestly surreal to still find a spot that can blow me away like this, if I lived in queens this would be an everyday visit for me. If you’re lucky enough to live near please enjoy it for me. I will for sure be making a trip whenever possible. The price point for this quality of pizza is also hard to comprehend. Amazing overall, my favorite pizza I’ve ever had to be honest at the moment. The great part is, every time a new slice stands out. The onions under the sauce on the raging bull slice is genius. You can feel the passion into this pizza.