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NY & C Gives The 'Good Pizza on the West Coast' Thing a Try

Where: 1120 Wilshire Blvd [map], Santa Monica, CA, United States, 90401
October 9, 2009 at 5:06 PM | by | Comments (0)

It's hard to find a quality slice of pizza in Los Angeles and in fact, most shops here just try to emulate a New York or Chicago-style pizza. The attempts are appreciated by East Coasters like ourselves but of course, it's just never the same. The biggest stand-out so far has been Joe's Pizza, just off the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, which is an outpost of the famous Joe's Pizza on Bleeker Street.

However, a new pizza joint has opened, also in Santa Monica, on Wilshire Boulevard and it's decided to split its offerings between New York and Chicago style pizza. NY & C even splits its physical space between Chicago and New York. One wall is devoted to NYC photos and memorabilia and the other is for Chicago.

There's deep dish Chicago-style pizza and specialty pizzas like the Navy Pier (green peppers, tomatoes, garlic and mushrooms) and the Windy City with four types of meat (sausage, pepperoni, salami, sliced beef), mushrooms and extra cheese. There's another pizza with meatballs, mushrooms, tomatoes and green peppers that's called The Sears Tower. Um. Do you mean the Willis Tower.

On the NYC side of the menu, individual slices can be served, plain or with your choice of toppings. On opening day, only three were available but the restaurant plans to include more (if they haven't already.) The specialty pizzas include the Central Park, the Times Square and The Empire State with different variations of the Chicago specialty pizzas.

We ordered two slices of pepperoni pizza and we were pleased to see that the wide slices came in a medium heft. (Not those super skinny kinds.) The cheese and pepperoni was perfectly gooey and oily, just what you we want in our pizza. But the dough is still off. It's probably something in the water.

The service was also a little frazzled but since it was their first day open, we'll give them a break. The restaurant has a Pac-Mac table machine in the corner, about six flat-screen TVs and a bar at the back to sip down some wine with your slices.

There's two other pizza joints nearby--Dagowood's and The Slice--making this almost a sort of Pizza Row here in Santa Monica. But NY & C is by far the best. Still, we'll have to line up a slice of their pizza with one from Joe's for the ultimate West Coast pizza taste test.

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