Tax Day Slice Action at NY Pizza Suprema
There’s nothing more miserable than standing in line at the post office, unless it’s standing in line at the post office on Tax Day. For those of you haven’t e-filed and find yourselves in the unfortunate position of heading to the city’s main post office to mail in your returns, might I suggest a side trip to the slightly out of bounds NY Pizza Suprema for a fortifying slice?
From the outside NY Pizza Suprema looks like your standard midtown slice joint. I first took note of Pizza Suprema back in February, when as I was walking by I spotted a large blow up of Ed Levine in their window. A midtown-ish pizza joint with the Serious Eats overlord’s blessing? Interesting, very interesting.
Pizza Suprema prides themselves on having three different sauces that they use on their signature pies.
Their Plain Cheese pizza is topped with their house tomato sauce, mozzarella and Romano cheese and will run you $2.50 a slice.
Their Margarita pizza is topped with a plum tomato sauce and their house made mozzarella(!) along with Romano cheese, a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and fresh basil and goes for $3.75 per slice.
Their Upside Down pizza is a Sicilian pie with the mozzarella on the bottom, a chunky tomato and cooked onion based sauce and then sprinkled with Romano and drizzled with olive oil. The crust is thick but still light and crunchy. The inverted sauce and cheese combo is novel and downright delicious. I will caution that the few times that I’ve been here, I have noticed that not all Upside Down slices are equal so don’t be shy about pointing which slice you want. At $2.75 a slice, this alone is worth the out of bounds trip. And just think of how jealous you’ll make everyone else in line at the post office.
NY Pizza Suprema, 413 8th Avenue in New York City btw 31st and 30th Street
Posted by Brownie at 10:30 am, April 15th, 2010 under Out of Bounds, Pizza.
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Cue KC espousing love of pizza.
Also FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU for putting delicious looking cheesy goodness in my face when I’m hung over.
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Way too hungry after looking at these pics and it’s not lunchtime yet!
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The regular slice and Margarita slice at Pizza Suprema are both quite good. I’m very interested in trying the upside down slice.
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The upside down slice is definitely worth a try. It’s a thick crust but manages to be more crispy than doughy. Delicious. :)
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it is sometimes referred to as a grandma slice Street AND the BEST is at Rosa’s right near NYlife (27th and park i beleive).
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That’s a grandma slice?
I don’t eat ’em so probably why I’m not used to looking at ’em either.
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“Variations abound, but the basic outlines are as follows: a thin layer of dough is stretched into an oiled, square “Sicilian” pan, topped sparingly with shredded mozzarella, crushed uncooked canned tomatoes, chopped garlic and olive oil, and baked until the top bubbles and the bottom is crisp.”
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It sounds like you could bake your own grandma pie, KC…
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AND, i happen to be heading there in ten minutes to give my father something so mayve I will skip Energy Kitchen.
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went there 2 days ago. I love this place. Big FU to the place directly across the street from them. The bakery on the corner should have italian ices pretty soon as well.
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went to rosa’s or this joint above?
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Love making my own pizza, street. Ive been on a diet the past few weeks and havent actually had good, real pizza….dying.
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Boo, eat a slice and die on the treadmills. ;P
Gotta treat yourself right sometimes, kc.
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once i lose what i want, i will..until then, im staying on track/
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@kcjones001, Pizza Suprema. Looks like they redid the interior as well.
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that’s a grandma slice; peep Maffei’s as well on 6th ave and 21st (22nd?).
remember this old thread?
http://midtownlunch.com/downtown-nyc/2009/08/03/what-exactly-is-a-grandma-slice-anyway/
Interesting upside down slice. I never had. (Unless you count times where the cheese slides off and I throw it back on top wrong.) And I’m sure that’s a perfect date slice with sauce covered around my face. :)
PIZZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!