December 5th, 2018
New York, NY
We don’t get too many opportunities to stay in the city for dinner these days with a baby to be picked up from daycare by 6 pm. So, if we want to get out to try some new pizza, we have to go during our lunch break. With only an hour (or so) it can be hard to huff out to Brooklyn or up to Queens, but Manhattan is generally doable. We’ve been saving Scarr’s Pizza for a lunch date since it isn’t too far from our offices.
We’ve been hearing about the slices at Scarr’s for over a year now, although it’s been open since 2016. It just made the list in 2018, which is one of the fastest debuts that we’ve seen. It looks like your generic slice shop, and it would be easy to walk past it. But the slices are far from your average slice. The owner and chef, Scarr Pimentel, mills his own grains every day by hand in the basement.
He has worked at many of the NY pizza greats – Lombardi’s, Artichoke, Joe’s, before opening Scarr’s. So he knows pizza, and he is determined to use quality ingredients. Milling his own grains makes the pizza more nutritious, also. This article was really interesting.
We tried a bunch of regular slices here. The cheese, pepperoni, and margherita slices were all delicious, and you could really taste the difference in the crust. When we went, they didn’t have any squares, but we hear those would be worth going back for.
If you want to read more about Scarr’s and what Pimentel is doing to try and change the NY pizza scene, here’s another good interview.
To visit:
Scarr's Pizza
22 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
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