AOL Best Pizza 2008: NEW YORK PIZZERIA

"New York Pizzeria is the real deal. Giant slices of pizza cut from homemade pies are cooked the old-fashioned way in brick ovens. Hand tossed before your eyes, the Italian and Sicilian pies are the main attractions, while stuffed pizzas like stromboli and spinach calzones are also popular choices."

Lyn Foster

Best of Houston 2008

Best Pizza

At Russo's New York Coal-Fired Pizzeria near the intersection of the Northwest Freeway and Highway 6, Anthony Russo has re-created the old-fashioned coal-fired pizzeria experience in a suburban strip center. But the superhot oven is only part of what Russo is doing right. You don't get a pizza crust with this kind of fabulous texture unless you can turn out a high-rising yeasty dough every day. And the only way to keep such a great pizza from getting gloppy is to teach every apprentice pizza maker in the place that you aren't doing your customers any favors when you pile too many toppings on the pie. And then there's the quality of the toppings themselves. As long as they can keep the oven hot, the dough yeasty and the toppings high in quality and low in quantity, Russo's New York Coal-Fired Pizzeria will have the best pie in Houston.

Best of Citysearch: Houston Restaurants

#1 BEST PIZZA 2006

#2 BEST PIZZA 2008

AOL CityGuide
2007 City's Best Pizzeria

N.Y. Pizza's Great -
Any Way You Slice
It excerpted from "the Adventurous Palate"
Kathi Mosbacher
Houston Chronicle

Frank Sinatra's on the juke box, fluorescent lights flicker overhead. I could be enjoying "a slice" at John's on Bleeker Street in New York, but I'm not. I'm in Meyerland at New York Pizzeria. "New York pizza has the same deserved reputation as Texas barbecue," said chef and owner Anthony Russo."You can eat pizza in every city in the world, but when you take your first bite of New York pizza, you know it's special."

A Slice of Heaven:
New York Pizzeria
bakes up a pie that's the stuff of dreams
By Margaret Biggs
Houston Press.com

"Recently, I spent three weeks working on an archaeological dig in Central America. In camp, we subsisted on a diet of rice and beans, beans and rice and -- on special occasions -- plantains, beans and rice. Small wonder that our favorite entertainment was the "What I'm Gonna Eat When I Get Home" game. We'd lounge around camp in the long tropical evenings and dream of American food. Sweet little Katy from Mississippi would describe her mama's fried chicken, real mashed potatoes and fried okra."

New York Pizzeria"Restaurant Review" Theodore Powers, Food Editor Jewish Herald-Voice "You gotta see it to believe it! The largest pizza in Houston comes from the New York Pizzeria, and like its name, this is a real New York pizza. I took home a 28 inch pizza and had to have my wife open the back door as far as it would go and then still had to tilt the pizza to get it into the house. I had to tilt it again by the entrance to the kitchen. I knew my doors were wide enough for the pizza; I just didn't figure on the even larger box that holds the pizza."   New York Pizzeria Sidewalk Houston Entertainment Guide "This casual dining spot offers Italian fare — appetizers, pasta, meat dishes, salads, desserts and breads — as well as authentic New York City pizza. Chef and owner Anthony Russo grew up in the kitchen of his family's New York restaurant and says he's giving the same attention to his pizzas here as his family did — with dough made from scratch and sauce that comes from an age-old family recipe."     Dear Anthony, "I wanted to personally thank you for satisfying my cravings for a taste of home. I was born and raised (just like Texas cattle) on the lower east side of Manhattan. I have lived in Houston for ten years and have tried every pizza place in this city. Your restaurant is the ONLY one that has hit the nail on the head! Your pizzas and calzones take me right back to Mulberry Street. I was a steady customer at your Medical Center location and I'm thrilled that you have moved into the neighborhood. I wish you great success. Salute!" Linda Grand staff     New York Pizzeria Fine Italian Cuisine, Big Apple Style by Katherine Pannill "It's well known that many believe the best pizza in the world comes from New York. Less well known is that you can find it in Houston -- at New York Pizzeria."