Lombardi's

In 1905, Lombardi's was licensed to by the City of New York to become America's first pizzeria*. A century later and Lombardi's is still churning out amazing Neopolitan style pizza to hungry New Yorkers and flocks of tourists. The pizzas are still baked in the same coal oven that they've used since 1905 (though prices have gone up since the first pies used to cost $.05 each back then).

Heads up: Lombardi's is cash only and, for those who care about things like this (re: me), there are no free refills on soda.


Thing's Tony Liked: 

• The meatball pizza toppings
• The pizza itself
• Enjoying the hell out of the fact I didn't order a salad at Lombardi's

Things's Katie Liked:

• The pizza. Smoky-crusted, sweet-sauced, creamy-mozzarella-topped heavenly pizza. 

Lombardi's Pizza
32 Spring Street
New York, NY 10012
(212) 941-7994

* This is debatable. According to Wikipedia, "In 1984 the original Lombardi's closed. In 1994, Lombardi's restaurant was re-opened a block away at 32 Spring Street by pizza makers John Brescio, a childhood friend of Lombardi's grandson, and Gennaro Lombardi III, Gennaro Lombardi's grandson. This change in location combined with the 10 year gap in service has now cast doubt on which pizzeria can claim to be the "oldest". Papa’s Tomato Pies in Trenton, NJ opened in 1912 and has operated without interruption ever since, thus making it 3 years "older" than Lombardi's if the decade long hiatus is taken into account."