{"id":201827,"date":"2025-09-05T08:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/201827\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T08:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:25:10","slug":"food-network-names-lb-spumoni-gardens-best-pizza-slice-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/201827\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Network Names L&B Spumoni Gardens Best Pizza Slice in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

From corner slice shops to sit-down red-sauce joints, New York City is a never-ending competition of bubbling cheese and blistered crusts. Many New York pizza places<\/a> deserve accolades, but Food Network<\/a> has spoken, and the crown for best slice in all of New York State goes to none other than L&B Spumoni Gardens<\/a> in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

This neighborhood legend has been around since 1939, starting as a humble pushcart before evolving into a three-in-one institution: ice cream parlor, restaurant and, of course, pizzeria. The star of the show? The\u00a0world-famous Sicilian slice\u2014an upside-down masterpiece where cheese goes down first, sweet tomato sauce lands on top, and everything gets finished with a hefty snowing of Parmesan\u2014seals the deal. The result is a thick, springy square with golden-brown edges and a flavor that\u2019s more layered than your standard New York triangle. It\u2019s not your everyday slice\u2014but that\u2019s exactly why people line up for it.<\/p>\n

RECOMMENDED:\u00a0Six NYC pizzerias were just named among the best pizza in the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

And beyond that stellar Sicilian, Spumoni Gardens is beloved for just that: the spumoni, squeezable paper cups of creamy, dreamy tricolor gelato in pistachio, chocolate and vanilla. It’s just the thing to cap off that savory pizza feast.<\/p>\n

Contenders could have easily included Di Fara<\/a>, where the late Dom DeMarco\u2019s legendary hand-cut basil slices defined a generation of pizza lovers, or Joe\u2019s Pizza<\/a>, the Greenwich Village standby that\u2019s basically shorthand for the \u201cclassic New York slice.\u201d Even the no-frills, old-school John\u2019s of Bleecker Street<\/a>, or Prince Street Pizza<\/a> with its famed pepperoni cups, could have made the cut. But when it came down to one slice to rule them all, Spumoni Gardens took it.<\/p>\n

Curious how New York’s neighbors fared? Dominick\u2019s over in New Jersey, run by Brooklyn-born Peter and Sal Lombardo, has the Garden State buzzing with spicy Brooklyn-style pies and rare Palermo squares. And up in Connecticut, New Haven\u2019s legendary pie culture is strong with Da Legna, bringing its New Haven-meets-Neapolitan style pizza featuring buffalo mozzarella and San Daniele cured meats to the slice crowd.<\/p>\n

Find the full list of the bests slices in the U.S., according to Food Network,\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Still, if you want the best slice in New York, the verdict is in. Head to Bensonhurst, grab that upside-down Sicilian square, and taste why Spumoni Gardens has been the city\u2019s not-so-secret treasure for over 80 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From corner slice shops to sit-down red-sauce joints, New York City is a never-ending competition of bubbling cheese…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":201828,"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-201827","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\/115150738236728689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201827","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=201827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}