Lisa’s Pizza & Restaurant

This is the best Italian restaurant I have ever been to in my life. Everyone I have introduced this restaurant to became addicted. Part of the reason I moved to Tribeca was knowing they would deliver to me. It is unfortunate that they closed, I am BEGGING anyone who knows the owner or chef to contact me! They closed a week after my big 30^th birthday party for which they catered. At least that was memorable! My favorite dishes were the lasagna and penne alfredo with boiled chicken. They gave plentiful amounts for a wonderful price. Nothing beats them.

Now CLOSED.
Kind of a shame. They had a really good Grandma slice, but the rest of the options were always average. Place was old and dingy inside too, needed some renovation. Tough to compete with a dollar pizza joint up the street that turns out one fresh cheese pie after another… meanwhile Lisa’s slices always has to be reheated, and that never tastes as good.

This place is now all boarded up, closed SHUT !

Best pizza on Fulton street. Go here for a heinegan and a couple slices anytime I’m feeling pizza. There’s always room for a slice.

Food here was great but they just closed up this past weekend due to a high rent increase (according to the sign in the window). So sad that this is becoming the fate of every mom & pop restaurant, soon there will only be corporate restaurants in Manhattan.

Was crashing at my Moms place downtown for a few days for the holidays and she suggested ordering from here, I saw the Unilocal reviews were mostly for the pizza and mostly bad but since I dont like pizza I wasnt getting that anyway. I decided to get Linguini with White Clam Sauce. Have to admit I was fearing it was gonna be canned sauce but I was very happily surprised to see a homemade suce with very large, shucked clams, lots of red pepper flakes and enough garlic to ward off the entire Twilight series. Very well cooked pasta and a sauce as good as any I have had. So if you like white clam sauce skip the pizza and give it a try.

I have been ordering delivery from Lisa’s pizza since 2007. Super friendly service. I personally love the chicken francaise, with garlic bread and broccoli. yum. I also love the pizza… its not the absolute best pizza i have ever had. but it is delicious and well worth it. suggest order a whole pie (and not just a slice). garlic knots are also super yummy. pass on the chicken wings.

The pizza is only ok. The sauce lacks flavor. But the place does have the BEST garlic knots EVER.

The Gorilla says:
«Sausage and mushroom;
Pepperoni and olive:
Great combinations!»

A
Slice will
Set you back
2.75.
Poor environment and average taste.

This is an average pizzeria with average pizza. Good to grab a slice on the go when you have 7 minutes to get back to work. Not sold on the cleanliness and their other foods don’t look … appetizing. Not much to look at and definitely not worth a conversation.

I concur with many of the other reviews here: Lisa Pizzeria is not very good. Too much cheese, a bland sauce, and a crust that is recognizably of pizza, but just.
If you’re near Lisa and craving pizza, go across the street to the Fulton Street Market. Their pizza is not amazing, but it’s a fair bit better than Lisa.

not a fan at all. the pizza always looks old and gross, and it doesnt taste much better. I dont think ive ever seen a super fresh looking pie. Lisa’s is super close to my apartment so in a pinch i sometimes end up getting a slice or pie, but i always regret it. Certainly not the best. On the plus side the garlic knots are not to bad. the prices are also strangely in inconsistent.

They have Italian ice here!!! That’s a great thing right there. I went here for pizza years back & I remember it was all right and at a reasonable price (though maybe the quality declined since I had it in 2009). Also, they gave us quality cups for our ice. The small was $ 2 but you got an actual cup that didn’t leak as the ice melted in the heat.

Just got an Italian ice here, but it was awesome, and they were courteous.

I work right next to this place and will never come back. It just is not very good pizza, I think I threw more away than I ate simply because working on an empty stomach was more appealing than finishing this pizza. It was also really obnoxious waiting in line for this particular pizza I don’t know why but apparently walking into this joint means you forget basic math and can’t seem to figure out how to pay.

Define mediocrity — Lisa’s pizza.
If you’re craving pizza it does the trick… but so does digiorno

Randomly stopped here after feeling hungry right before walking the Brooklyn Bridge. This place hit the spot! Must get: Calzone w/​garlic poppers. Friendly service, great food, reasonable prices.

Like the song says, you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.
For some of us, that means New York-​style pizza when you don’t live in New York — that is, I don’t think many of you who’ve low-​rated Lisa Pizzeria will understand how good the place actually is until you have to move away from the city, away to the West Coast like my long-​suffering wife did when we got married, where the pizza is nowhere near as good as it is in the city, but at least it’s not that god-​forsaken Chicago-​style deep dish atrocity. (And forgive me, Chicago, I do love you so dearly, but that ain’t pizza.)
The first memory I have of Lisa Pizzeria’s pies is, naturally, tinted with nostalgia and budding romance: when my wife lived in 99 John, friends of hers who also happened to be neighbors had us over, our first couples’ date, sharing a pepperoni pie from Lisa’s and losing at speed Scrabble.
But something’s merits aren’t simply defined by the lack of goodness around it, that is, Lisa’s pizzas aren’t good just because there’s nothing besides California Pizza Kitchen (ugh) around where we are now, or that there aren’t other, better pizzerias in the Financial District. But the pies themselves are solid, stand-​up versions of the New York slice: thin of crust, light cheese, olive oil that you ought not blot off but should rather allow to roll to the vertex of the slice you’ve folded in half length-​wise to eat. The crust is crisp but gives to a chewiness that is the platonic ideal of carbohydrate-​rich foods, whether they be the perfect bagel, Chinese home-​style chow mein, or this humble slice of New York.
When I first arrived in town for a recent conference I frantically looked for a slice to scratch the itch, and the best I could do near Times Square (the horror) was good enough, one of the ubiquitous Famiglia pizzerias, which was still 12 parsecs for a Kessel Run better than the vast majority of the stuff out here in the West, where perfection in carbs is too often eschewed rather than chewed. But later in the week my wife and I found ourselves back down in the Financial District and visited the gustatory witness to our early love, and sometimes, just sometimes, things weren’t just better in retrospect, I really do love my wife that much, and the pizza at Lisa Pizzeria really is a pretty good slice of New York pie.
The other beautiful thing about New York pizzerias that we just don’t get out here: Lisa’s sells tall boys of Budweiser and other beers in their fridge case — how in the world can that rate anything less than three stars?!

I really can’t speak to having dinner and sitting down at Lisa’s… who would do that anyway? With all of the amazing restaurants in NYC and all of the «just OK» restaurants at the Seaport… why sit down and enjoy a meal at Lisa’s?
Lisa’s is great for takeout and that’s about it.
Since I live in the neighborhood and there aren’t that many pizza joints, I resort to Lisa’s. It’s not terrible, it’s not great. It’s your average local pizza delivery. HOWEVER… the calzones are amazing.