ROCCO'S NEW YORK STYLE PIZZA — Restaurant in Tokyo

*UPDATE (read below-response to the owner)

Absolutely NOT New York style pizza.

When I first tried it 8-9 years ago, it was a decent slice. Second time I ate there, was given/ate an old and ridiculously hard cardboard-like slice (horrible). The third time (recently-9/2020), I’ve realized it has totally fell off and has changed into some low quality frozen supermarket pizza. Did you change ownership??

You should be ashamed of yourselves to call it New York Style. You are cheating your customers.

*Allow me to respond and explain myself. 1)The reason why I said the reviews were erased is because I have made a review here before (very early on) and it suddenly isn’t there anymore. Perhaps it was an old one that was somewhere deleted. Okay, I will give you the benefit of the doubt here, so I’ll erase that. 2) I DO stand by my review by saying the last two times were not up to par with the 1st. My jaw literally were sore from chewing so hard. Perhaps I got unlucky was given a slice that was sitting around for a while. The last time, the size of the slice was definitely NOT a NY slice size (it was smaller) and the dough was so off. Either the dough wasn’t proofed long enough or it wasn’t fully cooked. The dough was flat with not much texture. 3) I’m sorry to hear about the death of the husband. When I first visited there 9 years ago, he was very welcoming and even made me a fresh pie because I mentioned I was from New York (I’ve never had a problem with your service as it was quite good).

My apologies for the harsh review and the part about “cheating your customers” may be overly dramatic. However, my overall feedback is almost entirely based on the actually product served to me during the last...

Spent 2000 yen of transportation fee to get to Rocco's from Chiba, after a brief research on the best pizza place in the city, and I must say it was completely worth it! This place will put the 3 most known delivery style pizza shops to a shame and can honestly dominate almost all private pizzeria around. Easily the best New York Style Pizza you can eat in Tokyo or maybe in Japan.

Medium size of Quarter with NY Classic, Pepperoni, Hawaiian and Mexican. Their medium size is equivalent to the large size of other shops (mainly delivery franchises) being 36cm, and large size is 46cm.

Each tasted very good, authentically hand made with perfect quantity of ingredients and cheese. Usually I never eat the classic (or the standard) pizza in other places as I never find them worth the money given how they taste, but oh boy, Rocco's classic gave me the best experience. Hawaiian with excellent quality of Pineapples, very juicy and sweat, literally melts in your mouth. My girlfriend loved the Mexican pizza, and I must say Pepperoni here is the closest you can get if you are used to the one in the US.

Definitely will go again, once again easily one of the best Pizzas I...

We are native East Coast ( New York and Boston) people who now live in California. Translated this means we are picky about our pizza and skeptical of people outside of New York who claim to make NY style pizza. We have been traveling for several months with our first foray into Japan. Part of the fun is trying different foods as well as each country's idea of pizza. Got to say we were thrilled with Rocco's. The owners are delightful, friendly and very service oriented. Felt like a neighborhood pizza place. Flavor is there, crust is chewy and cooked in that huge pizza oven. Price is about the same as a pizza in Manhattan. Love you can order a whole pie or by the slice. Only cheaper places offer $1/2 a slice in the city that are crappy. Love to see bigger glasses for water! Wish I was not as full as I would have loved trying...