Joe & Pat's NYC
Pizza restaurant · East Village
168 1st Ave, New York, NY 10009
Highlights
Staten Island pizza institution serving cracker-thin pies & Italian classics
Staten Island pizza institution serving cracker-thin pies & Italian classics
"You might think that Rubirosa is the only place that makes a super-thin-crust pie with excellent vodka sauce. News flash: Rubirosa borrows their recipes and style from legendary Staten Island spot Joe & Pat's. (The owner of Rubirosa is related to the team who started Joe & Pat's.) The crust here is almost as thin as matzoh, so we don’t recommend weighing it down with more than one topping. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It just means you can eat more cracker-thin pizza, which you will inevitably want to do. If you don’t live on Staten Island, this old-school restaurant is worth the trip, but there's also a location in the East Village." - bryan kim, willa moore, kenny yang, carlo mantuano, molly fitzpatrick
"In case you live under a rock (Manhattan) and only know about the East Village location of Joe & Pat’s, let us provide you with a little history lesson. Long before Joe & Pat’s opened on 1st Avenue, it existed on Staten Island, in Castleton Corners. The year was 1960, so if we do the math there, they’d been perfecting their thin-crust, Staten Island-style pies for 58 years before they made their Manhattan move. If you call yourself a diehard fan of the vodka pizza (one of the best pies in NYC), you owe it to yourself to try it straight from the source. Round out your order with some baked clams and chicken parm." - willa moore
"In case you live under a rock (Manhattan) and only know about the East Village location of Joe & Pat’s, here’s a history lesson. Long before the First Avenue Joe & Pat’s came the Staten Island original. The year was 1960, which means they spent over half a century perfecting their thin crust pies in Castleton Corners before hopping across the water. So for a crash course in Staten Island pizza—some of the best in any borough—you should go straight to the source. The crusts are so thin it’s easy to finish a couple of pizzas, so add the caesar salad pie, which will make you a certified salad-on-pizza fan. Vodka pie, plain pie, caesar salad pie" - molly fitzpatrick, willa moore, will hartman, bryan kim, sonal shah
"We don’t understand how the cracker-thin crust at Joe & Pat’s can support melted cheese and vodka sauce, but we don’t need to understand in order to enjoy it. Order delivery from the Staten Island original or their location in the East Village." - team infatuation
"Joe & Pat’s stands out from some of the other casual Italian places in the East Village because of how relaxed it is. Even on a Friday night when most people are with big groups ordering a bunch of pizza, the one-room space somehow doesn’t get too loud. In terms of food, the pastas are the unsung heroes of the menu. (There are 12 different kinds to choose from.) They’re mostly $20, but they’re giant, so you’re basically paying for dinner and the following lunch/late-night fridge session as well." - hannah albertine
