Pizzeria Giove — Restaurant in New York

Pizzeria Giove is the best wood burning pizza on the Island. I love their story as told on their menu, even though they spelled Pizzaiolo wrong ... We went on quiet Sunday during 4th of July weekend and we were the only people in the restaurant. We ordered a caesar salad and fried calamari to start. The apps came out quickly. The caesar was good, though I prefer shaved parmiggiano on mine. The calamari was underseasoned and came with the tiniest shot glass of sauce, which wasn't enough for half of the platter. It was a good amount of calamari. Now onto the main event, first off the menu is broken down into 2 pricing categories: small and large. The small 14" pizzas (6 slices) run around $15 and the large 18" pizzas (8 slices) run around $32 and up... Unfortunately, they don't allow you do do half and half pizzas, which forces you to order 2 small pies. The pizza took forever to come out. We were the only ones in the restaurant and if you are making true wood burning or coal burning oven pizza, they shouldn't take more than 2 minutes to cook. The margherita was just okay. The pizza texture is extremely thin and crispy, which I like, but I prefer some small air pockets on thin pizza, yielding a nice chew. The specialty pizza we ordered was called the Gustoso, which had straciatella, hot sopressata and sweet sausage. It was excellent, like hard to stop eating even though we were so full. Stracciatella is mozzarella stored in heavy cream so it's like you are eating cream sauce on your pizza, which is really tasty. If you are stopping on for the first time, try the small...

My first and only visit I asked for a 1/2 sausage pie. I didn't think I needed to say don't char black the crust and are you going to put any sauce on it. It was beyond horrible. Like they smeared a faint bit of some sauce near the edge of the crust that ended up black and the cheese was as tho it was a huge wad flatened against the entire pie. I paid and left and came back after I got into the car and saw this. I was told the reason the crust was burned was because they make thin crust pizza. Lol. What a joke and sure they'd make me another one. If this was their best - I wasn't wasting any more of my time for a repeat. I was not offered my money back. I was starving and I ate one one horrible all chewy cheese slice no sauce whatsoever under it and gave the other slices to some teens on New Dorp Lane. They laughed and said they didn't care if I already had a slice. Yes ignorance is bliss. If you want black burned crust and a sheet of thick cheese on your pizza. Yes by all means go there. Maybe they only do this for take out. I can't imagine they'd give any eatvin customer...

First off, their delivery boy cut us off and drove like an a-hole to secure a parking spot in front of the pizzeria. Second, we were told pies would be ready at 6:20 for pick up and we received them at 6:52, with no apology for the wait. The vodka pie was light on the vodka sauce. The regular cheese pie was very oily, over salted, and a tad bit floppy on the crust. The specialty pie (muzz, sausage, arugula) was very good and is the only reason they did not receive 1 star. With all of the raving reviews regarding the food here my only guess is that they forgot our order and had to rush to make it. Regardless, I was really disappointed. I am born and raised in Staten Island but have since moved away from NY. Coming back and eating pizza is usually a treat but this was not a treat at all. 3 pies for $72 to get cut off, flipped off, forgotten about and then given overly salted pies with a lackluster sauce just pisses me off. Go to Joe and Pat's,...