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Upscale brick-oven pizzas, calzones & wine served up in a rustic, stylish eatery.
What to order: Large Pie with Basil · Large Calzone · Three Cheese Fusilli (if available)From Google Maps reviews.
Food: Lucali was honestly disappointing, especially because I went in wanting to love it. I’ve followed this place for years and heard all the hype, so I expected something much stronger. The flavor itself was excellent, which is what makes the review frustrating. You can taste the quality in the sauce, cheese, crust, and pepperoni. The calzone was the best thing we had fresh and probably the only item that really made sense in the moment. It was rich, cheesy, satisfying, and felt more complete
Totally worth the hype! This is the best pizza I’ve had in New York. We came Monday around 3pm to wait in line and get a table for later that night. Around 3:30pm someone came and started taking peoples reservations. We were able to get a table for 4 people at 7pm. When we came back at our scheduled time we were seated shortly after checking in. We shared one pizza, one calzone and one pasta and felt it was the perfect amount of food to share. We had half cheese and half pepperoni for the pizza
The pizza is good. But is it worth waiting hours in line for? Absolutely not. This place has a ridiculous in-person reservation system that wastes everyone's time. Instead of taking reservations online, on the phone, or days in advance like most well-functioning restaurants do, Lucali decided that the most efficient way to reserve a table is to have people show in-person the afternoon of their reservation, have a host manually take down names on a clipboard, and then have people return later tha
From the May 24, 2023 health inspection. Lower-priority items are listed after the serious ones.
Food was left exposed to possible contamination during storage, prep, or serving.
Cold food was held above 41°F, warm enough for bacteria to grow.