This is our running list of the best pizza in New Rochelle, NY — sorted by what you're actually in the mood for, not by some arbitrary ranking. Wood-fired pies you sit down for, corner slice shops you eat standing up, grandma squares worth the drive up North Ave, and the places that'll still answer the phone when it's late. Last updated November 2026.
New Rochelle has an unfair amount of good pizza for a city its size, and most of it is family-run and decades deep. The honest answer to "where's the best pizza in New Rochelle" is that it depends on whether you want a napkin or a tablecloth.
These are the spots where the pizza is the reason you booked a table, not an afterthought on a pasta menu.
Pizzeria La Rosa on Russell Ave is the one we send people to first. Wood-fired brick-oven pies and a proper craft-beer bar in the same room — it's the rare pizzeria where the beer list is taken as seriously as the dough. Good for a long dinner with friends where nobody's in a hurry.
Terranova Brick Oven Pizzeria on Pelham Rd is a brick-oven pizzeria attached to a full Italian restaurant, which makes it the safe pick when half your table wants pizza and the other half wants a plate of pasta. It also holds one of the highest ratings in the city at 4.8 stars, and that's not an accident — the consistency is the whole point.
Modern Restaurant & Lounge on Huguenot St has been doing brick-oven pizza and Italian since 1987, with a lounge attached. This is your birthday-dinner, anniversary, out-of-town-guests spot — somewhere you can order a pie and a cocktail and stay for three hours without anyone clearing your plates at you.
Gemelli Pizzeria up on North Ave sits in the same category of neighbourhood pizzeria-slash-Italian-restaurant. It's a weeknight-dinner-with-the-family place more than a destination, and that's exactly its strength.
If you're already downtown and you want pizza in your hand in under five minutes, these are the ones.
CSF Family Pizzeria on Lawton St holds a 4.9-star rating, which is about as close to unanimous as this city gets. It's small, it's family-run, and the people who go there go there constantly. Worth the detour even if you're not on that block.
4 Bros Pizza on S Division St is a straightforward downtown slice shop — reliable, quick, cheap, and exactly what you want between errands or after a show.
Fratelli Pizza and Pasta on Huguenot St covers pizza, pasta, subs and salads, which makes it the easy group-order call when your coworkers can't agree on anything. Downtown and unfussy.
Town House Pizza on Anderson St is the kind of long-standing corner spot that doesn't bother with a website and doesn't need one. Walk in, point, eat.
Mario's Metro Pizza & Pasta on North Ave handles both the slice crowd and the Italian-American pasta crowd, and it does it at a price that makes it an easy habit rather than an occasion.
These are the places people are loyal to in a slightly irrational way — which is usually the best signal there is.
Deanna's Pizzeria & Restaurant up at 1284 North Ave has been family-owned since 1991 and is known for its grandma-style pizza. If you only make one trip up North Ave for pizza, make it this one, and get the grandma. Thin, square, properly done.
Sal's Pizza II on Quaker Ridge Rd is the north-end local — the one Quaker Ridge families order from without discussing it first. Dependable in the way that matters on a Tuesday.
Cestras Pizza on Main St is another longtime neighbourhood fixture with a steady following. Nothing experimental, everything solid.
Saccone's Pizzeria on 6th St has been doing slices and pies in the same neighbourhood for years. It's a slice-shop-first place, so go hungry at lunch.
Alfredo's Pizza Cafe on North Ave does classic and specialty pies and has been voted top pizza locally — worth knowing if you're the sort who orders the specialty pie rather than the plain.
Pizza Centre on Pelham Rd is the practical Pelham Rd option: slice shop, pizzeria, in and out, no ceremony.
Folk Valley Pizzeria on Lafayette Ave rounds out the solid neighbourhood tier — a genuine local spot that locals actually use rather than talk about.
The category nobody writes love letters to and everybody relies on.
Roberto's Pizza & Pasta on Drake Ave is built for takeout and delivery — pizza and pasta, priced gently, straight to the door. This is the "nobody is cooking tonight" number to have saved.
A No 1 Pizza on North Ave does pizza, wings and burgers with late-night hours, which makes it the answer when it's well past dinner and the brick-oven places have long since swept up. Go in with realistic expectations and you'll be fine.
Dantoni's Pizza sits just over the line on New Rochelle Rd in Bronxville, but it's firmly in the orbit of north-end New Rochelle households and belongs on the list.
And yes, Papa John's on Main St and Domino's both deliver here. We're not going to pretend they're the best pizza in New Rochelle, but if you've got a group of nine-year-olds and a coupon, they do a job.
If you're new to town: start at CSF or Deanna's for the neighbourhood version, La Rosa or Terranova for the sit-down version. If you're arguing with someone about the best pizza in New Rochelle, the honest tiebreaker is to order a plain slice from three places in one week and see which one you think about afterwards. That's the test that works.
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