{"id":194847,"date":"2025-09-02T19:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/194847\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T19:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:09:11","slug":"louie-ernies-named-best-hole-in-the-wall-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/194847\/","title":{"rendered":"Louie & Ernie\u2019s Named Best Hole-in-the-Wall in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Yorkers don\u2019t exactly agree on much, except maybe that the best pizza is never found in a glossy dining room with a marble bar and a wood-fired oven imported from Naples. It\u2019s usually tucked inside a tiny storefront that looks like someone\u2019s cousin\u2019s basement. Which is why it feels right that Louie & Ernie\u2019s Pizza<\/a>\u00a0in the Bronx just landed the crown as the best hole-in-the-wall restaurant in New York.<\/p>\n

RECOMMENDED: The best pizza places in NYC, for simple slices and elaborate whole pies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The pick comes from Food Republic\u2019s new roundup of the best hole-in-the-wall restaurants in every state<\/a>, a coast-to-coast celebration of the kind of places with handwritten menus, squeaky screen doors and enough history to make you feel like you\u2019re part of the family after one visit. For New York, they didn\u2019t look to a flashy Manhattan slice shop or a TikTok-famous Neapolitan joint. They went straight to Pelham Bay, where Louie & Ernie\u2019s has been slinging perfect pies since 1959 (after a stint in Harlem dating back to 1947).<\/p>\n

What makes it worthy of the title? For one, the sausage pie. Locals will tell you this is the move, with fennel-laced sausage from a nearby butcher scattered generously across a sauce-slicked, thin-crusted pie that teeters on the edge of charred. It\u2019s not the kind of pizza you eat politely; it\u2019s the kind you fold, inhale and then wonder how you\u2019ve already taken down three slices before the box has cooled.<\/p>\n

Inside, there are only a handful of tables, but the real magic happens out front on car hoods or in the backyard patio, where neighborhood regulars swap stories about eating here since they were kids. There\u2019s no pretension, no gimmickry\u2014just pizza done so well that you almost don\u2019t want the secret getting out. (Almost.)<\/p>\n

Today, the shop is run by John and Cosimo, who took over from Ernie in 1987 and have kept the tradition alive with the same no-shortcuts approach. The vibe is pure Bronx: warm, unflashy and rooted in community. And while awards and accolades are nice, the real proof is in the repeat customers\u2014families, firefighters, little league teams\u2014who keep Louie & Ernie\u2019s buzzing day after day.<\/p>\n

So yes, New York\u2019s \u201cbest hole-in-the-wall\u201d might just be a pizza joint that looks like a house. And honestly, what could be more New York than that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Yorkers don\u2019t exactly agree on much, except maybe that the best pizza is never found in a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":194848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,10633,405,403,10634,5226,5225,5228,5227,988,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-194847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-categories-restaurants","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news-eating","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-restaurants","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115136283581106917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}