This is happs' running list of the best pizza in New Rochelle, NY - the wood-fired places you'd book a table at, the counter shops where you eat a slice standing up, and the neighbourhood pizzerias that have been feeding the same families for thirty years. We've grouped them by what they're actually for, because a Friday-night brick-oven dinner and a Tuesday lunch slice are not the same errand. Last updated September 2026.
A note on how to read this: star ratings are a starting point, not a verdict. Some of the most beloved pizza in New Rochelle comes out of rooms with fluorescent lighting and a Coke fridge, and some of the highest-rated spots are highest-rated because they're small and the people who go there really, really love them. Use the descriptions.
If you want to sit down, order a bottle of something, and let the pie come out blistered from a real oven, these are the rooms.
Pizzeria La Rosa on Russell Ave is the one to send out-of-towners to. Wood-fired brick oven, a full craft-beer bar, and the kind of char that only comes from serious heat - it's the pick when you want the pizza itself to be the event rather than the background. Good for a date, good for a small group that likes to linger.
Terranova Brick Oven Pizzeria at 123 Pelham Rd is a brick-oven pizzeria attached to a full Italian restaurant, which makes it the diplomatic choice for a family where half the table wants pizza and the other half wants a plate of pasta. At 4.8 stars it's one of the highest-rated food spots in the city, full stop, and it earns it on consistency.
Modern Restaurant & Lounge on Huguenot St has been running its brick oven since 1987 and has the lounge to prove it. This is where you go when the night might not end after dinner - Italian menu, brick-oven pies, and a bar you can move to afterwards. A genuinely useful option downtown for a birthday or a group of eight.
This is the working heart of pizza in New Rochelle - counters, quick lunches, and the pies that get carried home in a stack.
Fratelli Pizza and Pasta at 9A Huguenot St covers the full downtown lunch spectrum: pizza, pasta, subs, salads. It's the reliable answer when your group can't agree and you've got forty minutes.
4 Bros Pizza on S Division St is a straightforward downtown slice shop and a fair walk from most of the office and apartment blocks in the middle of town. Good for the fast, unfussy, eat-it-on-your-feet slice.
Mario's Metro Pizza & Pasta at 357 North Ave does pizza plus Italian-American pasta at genuinely gentle prices, which makes it a quiet workhorse for feeding a family mid-week without much ceremony.
Alfredo's Pizza Cafe at 550 North Ave runs classic and specialty pies and has been voted top pizza locally - worth ordering from when you want something beyond plain cheese and don't want to gamble.
Gemelli Pizzeria further up at 752 North Ave sits somewhere between pizzeria and neighbourhood Italian restaurant, which makes it a decent low-key sit-down option on that stretch.
A No 1 Pizza at 628 North Ave is the late-night one. Pizza, wings and burgers, open when most kitchens aren't. Nobody's claiming it's the best pizza in New Rochelle at noon; at midnight the calculus changes considerably.
CSF Family Pizzeria on Lawton St carries the highest rating on this entire list at 4.9 stars. Small operation, devoted following - go once and you'll understand why the number is what it is.
Town House Pizza at 8 Anderson St is an old-school, no-website, walk-in-and-order kind of place. Cash-and-carry pizza culture, still alive downtown.
These are the ones you go to because they're yours - the shop nearest your house that you'd defend in an argument.
Deanna's Pizzeria & Restaurant at 1284 North Ave has been family-owned since 1991 and is known specifically for its grandma-style pizza - thin, square, sauce-forward. If grandma slices are your religion, start here and don't bother arguing with anyone.
Sal's Pizza II on Quaker Ridge Rd is the anchor for that whole northern corner of the city - the after-practice, after-school, don't-feel-like-cooking option.
Pizza Centre at 374 Pelham Rd is a straightforward slice shop and pizzeria serving the Pelham Rd side of town, and a genuinely handy stop if you're coming back from the water.
Cestras Pizza at 624 Main St holds down the Main St end with the kind of steady 4.5-star record that suggests very few people have ever been disappointed.
Saccone's Pizzeria on 6th St is a longtime neighbourhood slice-and-pie shop - unpretentious, familiar, and exactly what a local pizzeria is meant to be.
Folk Valley Pizzeria at 56 Lafayette Ave is another solid neighbourhood option worth knowing if you're on that side of things.
Roberto's Pizza & Pasta on Drake Ave leans takeout and delivery, with pizza and pasta both on offer - useful when nobody in the house wants to leave it.
Dantoni's Pizza sits just over the line at 495 New Rochelle Rd in Bronxville, but it's close enough to the border that plenty of New Rochelle households count it as home turf.
Some nights aren't about the best pizza in New Rochelle, they're about pizza arriving. Papa John's on Main St and Domino's both deliver, and there is no shame in a large group of ten-year-olds and a known quantity. Just don't let it become the default when Deanna's or Saccone's is four minutes away.
If you're new here and want one meal that explains the city's pizza: Pizzeria La Rosa or Terranova for the sit-down version, Deanna's for the grandma slice, and whichever counter is closest to your front door for everything else. That last one is the real answer, and it's different for every person reading this.
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