John's of Bleecker Street
Best Pizzeria in New York · NY
Coal-fired, whole pies only, no slices. Since 1929.
John's of Bleecker Street has been baking coal-fired, brick-oven pizza in Greenwich Village since 1929, when Italian immigrant Giovanni "John" Sasso dismantled his original oven and rebuilt it at 278 Bleecker Street. It's one of the last of New York's original coal-oven pizzerias and helped define the city's thin-crust tomato pie.
The rules are famous and unbending: whole pies only, never by the slice, blistered in an 850° coal-fired oven, eaten in wooden booths carved with decades of initials. Nearly a century on, it's still turning out the same char-edged pies.
That old-school constancy is exactly what the 2025 Centurion Award for New York recognizes.
What they're known for
- Coal-fired brick-oven pizza
- Whole pies only — no slices
- Classic tomato pie & calzones
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2025 Centurion Award
Best Pizzeria in New York New York, NY · Awarded under the 2025 evaluation View the 2025 award →Awards run one calendar year and renew only if the business clears the bar again. Selection is by published criteria, never for sale.
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