New Pizza Place - Peppe's Pizza

I will definitely be trying this place. Nice review.

This place deserves the hype. I've been there twice and really liked it both times. The only thing to stay away from is the regular takeaway slice. The square slices are wonderful and a veggie delivery pie I got was really delicious.

Carnivore wrote: [quote=Shinybeast]This place deserves the hype. I've been there twice and really liked it both times. The only thing to stay away from is the regular takeaway slice. The square slices are wonderful and a veggie delivery pie I got was really delicious.

But the regular slice is really the best way to judge a place. If it fails that test, that doesn't bode well...

Yeah... If a pizza is really stellar then the re-heat required for your one slice won't destroy it. the deal on Ave J is that they keep those pies moving so that the single slices are sold so quickly they never sit there long enough to need the re-heat. I am wishing this place great good luck and though I don't eat pizza often I am gonna get over there and give it a try.

WhyFi wrote:
...and yet Grimaldi's doesn't serve a single slice.

i didn't think DiFara's did, either...

From the comments section:

I only tried the regular slice and it was no better than one from an average pizzeria with a bit of fresh basil dropped onto it. Half the slice was endcrust, leaving only a few bites that were even close to having the proper balance (and even those were off -- I could barely taste sauce or cheese, only crust and basil). I know better than to judge a place based on one visit so I'll definitely stop in again the next time I'm in the neighborhood. I'll also make sure to try the grandma slice this time and will hope that I just got one from a bad/old slice pie.

WhyFi wrote: [quote=Carnivore]I wasn't talking so much about the slice vs. pie issue (although DiFara's definitely serves individual slices). My point is that if the pizza isn't great without a bunch of toppings, then it's not great.

Understood and agreed. To me, Shinybeast's mention of the "regular takeaway slice," placed more emphasis on the "takeaway" bit, not the "regular" bit. I think that most takeaway slices, unadorned or not, are okay at best (other than places like DiFara's which has amazing turnover). So, in my mind, a takeaway slice is a poor way to judge a place.

For whatever reason, the single plain slices they serve up aren't that great. I generally agree with the "regular slice" test. The full pies are treated entirely differently (read: better everything). Not sure why. I haven't experienced that before (my favorite neighborhood plain slice from Joe's on 5th is exactly the same as what you get with a full plain pie). I thought that I just got a bad slice, but saw that others felt the same way. Long story short, try the square slices (several different varietals) or order a full pie.

UPDATE: To clairfy, what I mean is that their plain Margherita pie (picture here) is not what they use for single takeaway slices.

This place has been written up all over the place. My pizza-loving husband just took me to Difara's on Saturday for the first tme... He places it above Grimaldi's (wooaah!) but I wasn't as impressed, except for the fact that the older gentleman running the joint took the pizza out of the oven with his bare hands!!

We're going to Peppe's on Sunday. I'll let you know what we think.

brooklynisbetter wrote: This place has been written up all over the place. My pizza-loving husband just took me to Difara's on Saturday for the first tme... He places it above Grimaldi's (wooaah!) but I wasn't as impressed, except for the fact that the older gentleman running the joint took the pizza out of the oven with his bare hands!!

We're going to Peppe's on Sunday. I'll let you know what we think.

It strikes me that if you are a true New Yorker you are in that place of the Mystique of Pizza. Those of us who have been blessed with growing up a stones throw from a pizza place like DiFara have come up with the illusion that THAT Is what pizza tastes like. Now that is a hard stone to keep throwing thru your life as you eat pizza in other places and invariably compare.


I remember those nights coming back to Brooklyn from going to that university on Broadway and 116th street and hoping that I made it back by 11pm on the D train so I could catch that slice from the very last full pie .....all hot and steamy and not eat it there but to have the joy of eating it on the way home on a frigid Jan nite, such as this. Ah how it warmed my hands and soul.

Now that sounds so postive but think how it taints your reality of the moment when you just grab "a slice ."

My point.. those of us who grew up eating Difara or Grimaldi or that other joint in Coney Island have the unique and cursed position of not being able to judge a slice in the moment. Right now we delve in to that slice and are carried back to that Prusiant moment.

brooklynisbetter wrote: This place has been written up all over the place. My pizza-loving husband just took me to Difara's on Saturday for the first tme... He places it above Grimaldi's (wooaah!) but I wasn't as impressed, except for the fact that the older gentleman running the joint took the pizza out of the oven with his bare hands!!

We're going to Peppe's on Sunday. I'll let you know what we think.

I don't want to start yet another pizza war, but Grimaldi's is NOT GREAT PIZZA and shouldn't even be uttered in the same breath as Di Fara.

Any true New Yorker would agree. Grimaldis is what out of towners think is "REAL AUTHENTIC BROOKLYN PIZZA".......take a look at who is making the pies next time and how inauthentic it all is!
Its like Patsy's!

I was referring to all the Patsy's in the city....have not been to the one in harlem.

my bad.

I used to live a block from Patsy's in East Harlem. That shit is great. I've been meaning to take a return trip there but of course it's the middle of nowhere. Was great to live near it though. Even if I did eat pizza 4 nights a week.

nubnu wrote: ...so wouldn't a smart business owner organize so that he had enough man power to deliver to all of Park Slope?

i am truly sorry that they won't deliver to you.

as a south sloper, i have gotten the shaft from many places up your way in terms of delivery. i feel your pain.

(through bites of pizza, no doubt)

Wow...You people take pizza way too seriously. Like my husband.

nubnu wrote: Went to Peppe last weekend and enjoyed our pizza very much!
Unfortunately, we just called for DELIVERY and they refused us because we were too far, and they wouldn't just deliver a PIE!
I spoke directly to the owner PEPPE , and told them that their menu clearly states a $10 minimum and when I asked them last weekend if they deliver to Union Street they said "Of Course"....
Now Peppe is telling me he "plays it by ear" when and where they want to deliver.

Well, to be fair, Union Street is a long delivery from where they're located, especially if you live up near 7th and 8th. I thought I was pushing it for a delivery range and I live in South Slope. Also, remember with the size of the place they can't really afford to expand their delivery range too much. I doubt they can turn out a lot of pizzas in that space.

I had the recipe written on the one and only menu I took from them, and I threw it out in anger.....Now I regret it, even though I am thinking about calling Mikey and asking him again.