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Pizza Walking Tour in Manhattan with Friendly Local Guide

2 Hours Round trip from New York Moderate pace

The journey

Trip highlights
  • 01 Taste 3 slices of pizza in Manhattan
  • 02 Walk through Little Italy, Greenwich Village, and the Lower East Side
  • 03 Learn about NYC pizza culture from a friendly local guide
  • 04 Visit neighbourhoods known for iconic pizzerias
  • 05 Enjoy a private walking tour experience
  • 06 Receive a printed pocket pizza journal guide

Discover Manhattan one slice at a time on this pizza walking tour through some of New York City’s most iconic neighbourhoods. Led by a friendly local guide, you’ll explore the city’s deep pizza culture while tasting classic styles and hearing stories about the streets, shops, and communities that shaped them.

From Little Italy and Greenwich Village to the Lower East Side, this experience combines street food and local history in an easy two-hour walk. Along the way, enjoy included pizza slices, get insider tips on standout pizzerias, and pick up a pocket pizza journal guide to help continue your NYC food adventure after the tour.

Discover Manhattan one slice at a time on this pizza walking tour through some of New York City’s most iconic neighbourhoods.

From the itinerary

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 2 Hours
Tour type Private
Activity level Moderate
Accommodation Not included
Transport Not included
Wheelchair access No
Cities Manhattan, New York
Languages English

Day by day

The itinerary

1
Day 01

You have probably seen the travel TV shows where the lost tried different types of pizza. On this tour, you would have the chance to try the true taste of NYC. Our spectacular tour guide will help you to find the best spot for cheese, delicious slices in the whole New York. While exploring the pizza the local history and culture will amaze you no worse than the taste of pizza.The tour starts with the Crosstown Pizza Walking Tour which includes well-known and the oldest pizzeria place in America-Litlle Italy with the hundred of different restaurants where you can order the pizza slices, burgers, pasta and all of the Italian food samples that were brought by Italian emigrants in early 1900s. On this part of the tour, we will also pass through the neighbouring Greenwich Village with amazing pizzerias such as Blecker Street Pizza.

On the North Village of the Greenwich, we will stop at one of the most iconic pizzerias in the world-Joe's pizza is top 10 listing restaurant guides in Time Out New York. Joe's Pizza is also referred to as « the quintessential New York slice.»The next tour destination is the Lower East Side. This pizza walking excursion is Manhattan's pizza lover's paradise. Here you can find the Scarr's Pizza the old-fashioned Neapolitan pies, pizza-by-slices windows. Here the pizza makers will even make the special modern interpretation of New York City's signature dish. You can even learn from the pizza maker what effects of different ovens and signature manoeuvres.The unique place for the whole NYC where the owners are having the policy of no phones and no ways to make the reservations. This is the VIPs like Lenny Kravits and Barack Obama are having their regular dinner at. If you are wondering what is so special about this place? Well,

firstly the Litlle Italy is the place where it is hard to find the decent Italian restaurant that follows the traditions of the country, most of the pizzerias in Litle Italy are pretty influenced with the American culture. However, the Emilio's Ballato is the restaurant that shows the old-fashioned Italian interior and design of the room is lit with crystal chandeliers with the framed photos of celebrities which are lined with faded walls. The service is deadpan and the food is spectacular, don’t you dare skip the winelist since the experience of having the well-trained wine servers is precious. On the menu, you can find the antipasto platter, baked clams, and homecooked tagliatelle Bolognese.The Greenwich Village’s favourite place for the outstanding pizza is the Blecker Street Pizza. To confirm this fact, this pizzeria was voted “Best Pizza in NY” by the Food Network several times.

This place is more casual and cramped walls which are full of the celebrities photo like Mike Tyson and Steven Tyler. The Blecker Street Pizza has its signature pizza type which is the Nonna Marine slice with homemade marinara sauce and the mozzarella cheese and basil on the top. Luckily, their doors open until 5 am Friday to Sunday and you can easily pick up some pizza snack between you bar hops.

If you want to try the best pizza in Greenwich Village the Blecker Street Pizza is the best option. You will be probably salivating for more.Established in 1975 by independent owner Joe Pozzuoli who is originally from Naples, Italy. For over 37 years Joe has been living as the «Greenwich Village institution» and offering the classic New York slices.

HIs pizzeria is a top favourite amongst the tourists as well as locals who know where to get the authentic street slice of pizza. In 2009 Joe's Pizza was listed as one the «Best 25 Pizzas on Earth» by GQ Magazine. After trying Joe's slice you would never try any other pizza again. Whenever you are hungry, you should not hesitate to come back to JOe's Pizza.The Scarr's Pizza owner is not the ordinary immigrant from Italy, Scarr Pimental is 38-years-old Dominican –American guy who mills the grains on his own every day. This place has its style and policy that the owner does follow. When you just come in it feels like the café survived the Koch Administration, however, the decorations can tell you nothing about the pizza quality they cook here. When the pizza arrives you will have a thought that it is the basic New York pizza, nothing special, thin, wide-brimmed with the cheese and tomato sauce. But after the first bite, you will understand your miscalculation since the taste is close to the perfect pizza where the complex texture, light, even delicate crust which gives you the long aftertaste.

The guys here do know how to cook the fantastic pizza that understands how to make ideal pizza in NYC.

The fine print

Trip details

What's Included

  • 3 slices of pizza
  • Friendly local guide
  • Private tour

What's Not Included

  • Drinks
  • Toppings (toppings can be purchased for an extra fee)

Know before you go

  • STROLLER OR PRAM ACCESSIBLE
  • PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NEARBY
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Not suitable for pets
  • Infants must not sit on laps
  • Infant seats unavailable

Logistics

Meeting & route

Meeting point
New York, US
Tour start
New York, US
Tour ends at the same location as the start point.
End of the journey

Your 2 hours finish where they began, in New York.

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