Best road-trip restaurants in New York
Start here: 199 route-useful dining stops in New York, grouped by town and filtered by cuisine or price. This is the curated road-trip layer, not every restaurant in the state.
Updated 2026-07-01. Check current hours, reservations, and seasonal closures before you go.
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Brooklyn2
Cash-only candlelit Carroll Gardens pizzeria where Mark Iacono rolls dough with a wine bottle, drawing hours-long lines for BYOB pies.
Coney Island coal-oven pizzeria family-run since 1924, open only weekends, revered as one of the oldest continuously operating pizzerias in America.
Buffalo1
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Legendary since 1965, hand-crafted pies that draw pilgrims. (Midwood, Brooklyn)
Greenwich Village slice shop open since 1975, considered the quintessential New York plain slice and a required late-night stop.
Upper West Side slice shop crowned among the world's best pizzas.
SoHo slice institution famous for its spicy pepperoni square. (Nolita)
Bushwick pioneer with wood-fired pizzas and picnic-bench cool. (Bushwick, Brooklyn)
Lower East Side pizzeria milling its own flour and using local ingredients for a fresh, retro-cool New York slice.
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