This hyped New York-style pizza restaurant is opening a new slice shop in central London

Photograph: Carmy’s

London truly has a deluge of pizza. For a long time, most of that pizza was of the floppy, tangy, Neapolitan kind – the type you get at Napoli on the Road, Rudy’s or Yard Sale. But while Neapolitan still very much has its place, its glory days are long gone. Now, the capital has a huge thing for New York-style pizza.

NYC-style pies are characterised by a thin crispy base and thick marinara topping. Alongside the likes of Bad Boys Pizzeria, Crisp and Vincenzo’s, one of Time Out’s favourite places doing New York-style is Carmela’s in Islington. So, we’re buzzing at the news that the Carmela’s team is launching a brand new slice shop in a matter of months. 

The new joint will be called Carmy’s and will land at at 1 Monmouth Street in Covent Garden in the summer. The pizzeria’s founding trio is made up of Phil Chaykin, Gerry del Guercio and Paul Delany. Chaykin is also the brains behind Ugly Dumpling in Soho while the other two are best known as social media restaurant reviewers Bite Twice.

Photograph: Carmy’s

You won’t be able to order a whole 18-inch at Carmy’s. This joint will focus on snappy order-and-go service and offer just three types of individual slices: cheese, pepperoni and a rotating special. Its manifesto is ‘product, consistency and speed’ and there’ll be ‘mo reservations, no dining room, no overcomplication’.

Just like Carmela’s, all of the ingredients will be sourced from the UK or Italy. An announcement of the new slice shop read: ‘Carmy’s isn’t trying to reinvent pizza. It’s trying to do New York slices properly, in a city that’s only just starting to take them seriously.’

That’s about all we know about Carmy’s for now. Like we said, it’ll launch in the summer, but an exact opening date hasn’t been announced yet. 

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