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Welcome to Eat This! Your insider's guide to the best food New York City has to offer. And that doesn't mean sending you to posh and trendy restaurants - you can read about those anywhere. Still, if that’s how you want to blow your dough, knock yourself out...

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You knew I’d have to get on the vaunted subject of pizza, didn’t you? We all have our favorites, we dyed-in-the-wool Noo Yawkas, and we stick with them like glue. But I am a person who can stand a bit of correction now and then, particularly when I can’t pretend to have tried every bloody pizza out there. Oh, I have my favorites, all right, and I’ll tell you all about them. But I’ll start today’s lecture with a loving ode to the best pizza in New York.

The Best
Di Fara’s. Say it with me: Di Fara’s! Avenue J and East. 15th Street, Midwood, Brooklyn. Go there. NOW! Don’t stop anywhere along the way. Pass on the chains and their stuffed-crusts and meat-piles. Say no to any pie with a theme assigned to it. Keep walking if they promise you it’ll be ready in 10 minutes. Any pie worth its salt is worth a wait. If speed is your criteria for ordering, do yourself a favor and pick another food group. Real, life-altering pizza actually takes some time to put together, and is made with real ingredients, like bufala mozzarella.

And if any of these other joints vying for your attention made their pizzas with anything like bufala mozzarella, they wouldn’t need to stuff the crusts or pile on pounds of meat or any of the other chaff that lesser cooks use as smoke and mirrors to hide shoddy ingredients and mediocre preparation.

Di Fara’s, in a lot of ways, defies normal description. It would be like trying to explain the difference between a Thomas Kinkade printed mug and the work of any real artist – the chasm between the two are so great as to be nearly

The work of a genius.

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