iPizzaNY — Restaurant in New York

I had previously never been to this location. The service is extremely friendly! The food however is bad. There are simply far too many outstanding pizza places every block to justify ever coming here again. The hells kitchen homeboy went from being a must eat every time we land in New York, to completely dismisable. I'm not sure what happened to their cheese and dough but its obviously changed. The dough is much more generic now and way too thick and doughy. Only the edges are what the entire slice used to be which was that crunch chewy dough anyone looking for a great pizza is looking for. Also the amount of pepperoni seems to have been cut down. It's about half, probably more like 3 qtrs what it used to be. Yeah I'll post a picture it hasn't been cut in half but its definitely been dropped down by approx a 3rd, which doesn't seem like much but it's important to know that before, you could get crunch pepperoni in every single bite. Now I found myself eating bad bites, logging for the next one with pepperoni.

The salad was also extremely generic and bad. Way way way too much dressing. Soggy almost immediately.

Lastly was the slice I ordered which they put in the oven right away, rather than waited till my pie was nearing completion. Which means, it sat in the warming area of the oven while they made my pie. Tossing the dough, sautéing, toppings, and in the oven. So when they pulled out my slice which was a bianco with pesto and olive (can't remember what they call that one), the pesto was almost black, dark dark brown, the olives were completely dried out and shriveled and the crust basically burnt.

To be clear, I am not basing my review off of that single bad slice. My hells kitchen homeboy has absolutely become something I no longer long for.

I'd avoid this place from here on out. For the record, it pains me to leave this review because the service is so welcoming and nice. But I'll never change my opinion of the food because of service or anything other than the food itself...

Mediocre pizza. Genuinely surprised at how low-quality the ingredients were - I wonder where they even find sauce and cheese with so little flavor? Garlic and Rocky's are both within a block, so no reason to ever bother with this spot.

The crazy thing is how obviously fake/paid for 90%+ of the reviews are. The hyperbole is ridiculous: "best pizza I've ever had" "best pizza in NYC" "best shrimp scampi" "they do something no other pizza shop does - heat the pizza before they serve it" like what are y'all even talking about? If you're going to manufacture a bunch of fake reviews at least try to make them believable.

Also note how this chain has a bunch of other locations and the reviews are all mediocre. As if it's believable that this location is just so much better than all the others that are rated ~3.5 stars on average, but this one has a nearly 5 star rating with nearly 200 reviews? Come on.

Gross pizza and gross business practices....

⚠️ DO NOT EAT HERE ⚠️ — iPizzaNY Review

I’m writing this to warn anyone considering eating at iPizzaNY — do not eat here at all. This place is extremely unsanitary and has a long history of health violations.

If you don’t want to take my word for it, go to the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) website and look up “iPizzaNY” yourself. You’ll see multiple inspection reports from the past 2–3 years showing serious violations, including issues with rats, improper food storage, and other alarming sanitation problems.

It’s shocking that this restaurant is even allowed to stay open with the number of violations it’s had. They clearly don’t care about cleanliness or customer safety.

There are plenty of better, safer pizza spots in New York City — avoid iPizzaNY completely. Protect your health and check the facts for yourself on the official DOHMH inspection database before...