Di Fara Pizza • 1965

Domenico DeMarco shaped every pizza by hand in this Midwood corner shop for over half a century, hand-slicing imported pepperoni and finishing each pie with fresh basil scissors-cut at the oven. The ritual—slow, meticulous, uncompromising—earned Di Fara the top Zagat food rating in New York City and a pilgrimage-worthy reputation that outlasted Dom himself, who passed in 2022. His family still works the ovens, turning out pies that taste like devotion.