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Juliana's
Juliana's opened in December 2012 in DUMBO, Brooklyn, founded by Patsy Grimaldi, who came out of retirement at age 80 to open it — a genuinely unusual restaurant-industry comeback, in the exact building he'd previously run as the original Grimaldi's Pizzeria before selling that brand name and its franchise rights in 1998. Grimaldi named the new restaurant Juliana's after his mother, Maria "Juliana" Lancieri Grimaldi, a personal tribute built into the business's identity from day one. The opening itself was delayed by legal disputes with the Grimaldi's brand he'd sold years earlier, pushing what was originally planned as a March 2012 debut back to that December — a reminder that even a beloved, retired pizzaiolo returning to his own old kitchen wasn't a simple, uncomplicated homecoming. That legal tangle aside, Juliana's gave Grimaldi a chance to return to the same coal-fired oven and DUMBO storefront where he'd already built one legendary pizza reputation, effectively competing directly with the brand carrying his own former name a few doors down — a genuinely strange dynamic that's become part of the neighborhood's pizza lore, with regulars debating which of the two is actually closer to the "real" Grimaldi's pizza. For a New York pizza list, Juliana's is the essential "the founder's actual comeback" entry — an 80-year-old pizzaiolo returning to his own original kitchen to make the case, in person, that he never needed the name he'd sold to make the pizza that made it famous.
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Prince Street Pizza
Prince Street Pizza opened in 2012 in Nolita, built around Sicilian family recipes passed down through the Morano family, operating on a specific culinary philosophy the restaurant has described simply: if you can put it on pasta, you can put it on pizza. That approach shows up most clearly in the shop's signature square slice, a thick, focaccia-like Sicilian-style pie that's a genuinely different eating experience from a classic thin New York triangle. The Spicy Spring — a square slice topped with spicy soppressata that curls and crisps at the edges as it bakes — has become the specific order most people mean when they talk about Prince Street Pizza, a dish specific enough to have its own reputation somewhat separate from the restaurant as a whole, driving lines down the block on a regular basis. That square-slice format sits in genuine contrast to the classic thin New York triangle that dominates most of the rest of this list — thicker, more bread-forward, built to carry a heavier topping load without going soggy, closer in spirit to a Sicilian nonna's home cooking than a coal-oven Neapolitan tradition. For a New York pizza list, Prince Street Pizza is the essential "the square slice, done right" entry — a Sicilian family recipe turned into one of the most specifically-ordered single dishes in the city's entire pizza scene.
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