Review: Brooklyn's Pizzeria (Edgewater, NJ)

Ok, before we start hitting you with all of the fish from Christmas Eve, we figured we'd sneak this one in on you...

Photo: The steaming pie (half extra-sauce/half black olives) at Brooklyn's Pizzeria hits the table, and we're ready to hit it HARD

We've been regular customers of Brooklyn's Brick Oven Pizzeria in Edgewater, NJ for as long as we have known each other. Actually our second date was dinner at "Brooklyn's" and a movie ("Old School") at the National Amusements theater next door. Being the discerning pizza eaters we are, you'd have to think that Brooklyn's makes a good pie in order for us to keep coming back. They do. The best way to describe their pies would be to compare them to Grimaldi's of Brooklyn, and with good reason. The guys who own this place are related to the Grimaldi's clan. They also use a coal-fired oven, and their sauce has the same nice-balanced acidity and tang that makes it stand out. The funny thing is that there is a Grimaldi's in our hometown of Hoboken, (now unafilliated with the Brooklyn branch) and Brooklyn's Pizzeria in Edgewater is so much better than it that we opt to jump in the car and drive 20 minutes out of the way to go there.

NOTE: There are several other Brooklyn's Pizzeria's in NJ (Hackensack and Ridgewood) but we've never visited them so we can't vouch for the quality.

Photo: Jonny's preferred slice...black olives.

Photo: Nikki's preferred slice...extra sauce.

We typically order a large pie, half extra-sauce (Nikki), half black olives (Jonny). I've also played around with other toppings:

mushrooms - don't get them as they make the pie to watery

sausage - excellent

green peppers - tasty

ricotta - avoid, not much taste and it weighs the pie down)

We usually start with an antipasto or tossed salad with marinated mushrooms, roasted peppers, olives and tomatoes. The antipasto is good, but avoid the mozzarella cheese which look like bricks and have about as much taste as cement.

Photo: The antipasto is good, but avoid the mozzarella "bricks". They are tasteless and we're convinced that if you picked one up and threw it at the waiter you'd knock them out cold.

Brooklyn's Brick Oven Pizzeria
443 River Road
Edgewater, NJ 07020
201-945-9096

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CASH ONLY