📍L'Industrie Pizzeria, New York City

Brooklyn Crawl: Stop 3

NYC's Bushwick, Williamsburg, and Greenpoint sections are hyper-concentrated with great coffee shops, food, and bars. So when a friend visited from Los Angeles, I got the opportunity to revisit some favorites.

Stop 1: Sey Coffee
Stop 2: Win Son Bakery
Stop 3: L'Industrie Pizzeria
Stop 4: Brewery
Stop 5: Pizza
Stop 6: CocktailsHand-written

After coffee at Sey and breakfast at Win Son Bakery, we walked another 20 or so minutes in Williamsburg. This crawl was originally conceived as a pizza crawl. It took until stop three to get pizza.

It’s on the corner of a block in South Williamsburg. There’s usually a small line outside surrounded by groups of people waiting for their pizza. Hand-written signs on the back of paper plates posted everywhere about daily specials and menu changes. There’s a permanent shed outside with picnic tables for eating. An attendant brings people from the outside line inside so they can order when there’s room.

If it wasn’t for the crowd, this place would be very unassuming. It took less than 10 minutes from the back of the line to place an order. You get a buzzer and wait outside in one of those groups. It probably another 10 minutes to get the slices. You can put some toppings like chili flakes or oil if you’d like, we did not.

The slices look classic New York but a bit upmarket. There’s fresh basil and a little parmesan on the slices. Two things stick out to me about these slices— they’re fresh and crisp. I had the Margherita, the closest they offer to a plain slice.

NY-style pizza usually has a slightly sweet sauce with notes of garlic and oregano but this one had a fresh, almost raw, tomato-forward flavor. The cheese took a back seat, especially as the acid in the sauce just cut through the slice. The crust was thin, light, and crackly. When you tried to fold it, the crust would break in half on the edge like a cracker. They’re known as a place using higher quality ingredients and it shows in the pizza they make. After back-to-back food spots, it’s time to grab a few beers.

📍L'Industrie Pizzeria
254 S 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY 11211