Brooklyn Pizza Crew
Grandma Square – Fresh Basil, Parmigiano-Reggiano. Olive Oil. Housemade Mozzarella, Tomato Sauce
Sophia Loren – Roma Tomatoes, Parmigiano-Reggiano, Housemade Mozzarella, Fresh Garlic, Fresh Basil
Margherita – Parmigiano-Reggiano, Housemade Mozzarella, Olive Oil, Fresh Basil, Tomato Sauce
The Pepperoni – Grande Mozzarella, Tomato Sauce
Owned by Nino Coniglio and the team behind Williamsburg Pizza, the Union Avenue location visited in 2013 and the Lower East Side spot enjoyed just two days prior, Brooklyn Pizza Crew in Crown Heights was stop one during a Thursday food tour for five through Brooklyn, the Pizza at this location even better than the slices experienced previously thanks to an arrival just moments after the shop opened at 11:30am, none of the seven slices ordered more than ten minutes out of the oven.
Every bit as focused on top tier ingredients as the other Williamsburg Pizza locations, everything from Dough and Sauce to Mozzarella made in-house, Brooklyn Pizza Crew at 758 Nostrand Avenue is a virtually identical experience to the rest of the group’s shops save for the size of its footprint, a lengthy space lined in picnic tables with a mural lining one wall, the other stacked in Pizza Boxes and a cooler containing chilled beverages.
Offering an identical menu and prices as the space on Broome Street, the desire to retry some of the esoteric toppings from 2013 trumped by the fact that it would have taken time when everything else was fresh and ready to go, an eventual order covered three of The Pepperoni, two Grandmas, a Sophia Loren plus a Margheriata, all of them piping hot with plenty of milky Mozzarella and the Brooklyn Round Slices even more springy than they were in Manhattan thanks to the fact that they did not need to be reheated.
Anything but the typical 99-cent slice shop, those bastions of greasy Meat and rubbery Cheese that so many New Yorkers hang their hat on as ‘the best’ in cities around the world, Williamsburg Pizza and Brooklyn Pizza Crew show a true appreciation for craft that is no different from the guys and gals committed to Neapolitan tradition or Neo-Brooklyn Pies and anyone visiting Manhattan would be well served to pass by ten lesser shops to get ahold of one of Coniglio’s masterpieces.
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