Brooklyn City Pizzeria & Market — Restaurant in Laguna Niguel

In my search for Orange County's best pizza, it took too long to get here.

As is usual for me, my first time at a place, I order the cheese slice or a cheese pie as the baseline. Here, they had a great lunch special of 2 slices and a drink for under $10 so I was able to enjoy both a cheese and pepperoni slice.

The cheese slice was well above average, but not the highlight. Great slice though. The crust is great, delicious sauce, and quality cheese. The pepperoni slice, however, was a 10/10. It hit every note of a perfect pep slice. I truly can't wait to return just to have this again. On the menu there are also a variety of creative and delicious looking pies, I look forward to trying them all in the future based on the quality of the pizza I tried.

The service was great, nothing but truly friendly employees who were also genuinely interested in your thoughts. A very young staff on a Saturday and it was pleasant to have a youthful group provide such friendly, positive, attentive, and prompt service.

This is preference, but for me it was an ideal atmosphere for a proper pizzeria. Relatively small and basic, but to me, that's what it should be. Few frills, it's just about the food, and as a Brooklyn joint the proper amount of simple NY theming. It's very much a "your neighborhood pizza shop" vibe and I can't compliment that enough....it's all I want, it's all that is needed.

If you're in South Orange County and you're a pizza person, this place is a must. I'm still compiling, but it's quite possible this is the best NY pizza in OC.

My compliments to the owners and staff, I look forward to returning in the...

Brooklyn City Pizzeria delivers on its name! It is the best NY style pizza in Southern California and they offer many other dishes, like garlic knots, pasta and hoagies that are just like you would find back east.

As amazing as the food is, the owners and staff place a special emphasis on customer service. The place is small, and gets very busy - but even in the midst of all the lively chaos, the staff will gladly assist customers and bring their food to the car for them. This is especially true for seniors and mothers with young children or babies. While sitting in the car eating a slice while it was still hot (‘cause, why not?) I watched as a young employee carried a pie for an older gentleman that needed assistance and patiently escorted him across the parking lot without rushing him, until they arrived at his car, where the employee set the food carefully on the passenger seat and made sure the gentlemen got into the car ok. That is such an unusual sight these days and I had to go back in the restaurant and give an additional tip to the employee for the care he provided.

Kudos to the husband and wife owners (who are from Brooklyn and Mahwah) for their vision, the obvious care they put into their food and the emphasis they have instilled in the staff for amazing customer service!!! Support this small business - they deserve...

This is a second review. While I still like the place I would recommend to not bother with the eggplant parmigiana. Actually, it was more like spaghetti and eggplant parmigiana rather than eggplant parmigiana with a side of spaghetti.

I'm pretty disappointed since eggplant is fairly inexpensive but they were very stingy with the eggplant and loaded up with the spaghetti. It should have been there other way around.

I hate when a restaurant tries to make it look like you are getting a lot by putting a lot of pasta in place of the actual entree.

Stay away from the eggplant parmigiana. Not worth it. Flavor wise, it was acceptable but not good enough to make up for the stingy portion size. If I wanted to order spaghetti, I would have. The worst part about this is that I am a diabetic so, I ordered the eggplant instead of a pasta dish but they have way more pasta than the eggplant.

Stick with the pizza and baked ziti.

This is the real deal! Finally, great NY pizza. I'm so excited. I just tried some slices and they were great.

You can tell this is real NY pizza because they sliced the sausage instead of crumbling the sausage like all of the fake NY pizza places in CA.

They also have Sicilian pizza which nobody around here has. That's what I'll be...