"A $40 price tag for plain cheese pizza is pushing it. Especially when you can’t currently order it by the slice. But if you value innovation in the field of pizza science, put Ceres on your to-do list. At this Little Italy shop from a pair of Eleven Madison Park vets, slices are cracker-crisp and inconceivably thin, with minimal flop and puffy, baguette-like crusts that will wear out every muscle in your jaw. The plain one’s great, and the tomato variety has a sauce that’s tart as a granny smith apple. But the obvious winners are a white pie with pancetta, chives, and crème fraîche—think fancy Lays dip—and one with aged balsamic, puddles of ‘njuda with a roasted chili flavor, and globs of creamy burrata." - bryan kim, willa moore, kenny yang, carlo mantuano, molly fitzpatrick