L&L Pizza and Pasta New York Style

Usually when a pizzeria has over 30 reviews by the OneBite community, the overall rating is pretty accurate, unless the reviews are artificially inflated with perfect 10s. While there are a few b.s. 10s, it’s the ridiculous number of scores in the 9s leading to an overall rating of 8.6 that have led me astray to think this pizza was something special. They call it “New York Style,” but the only style it’s similar to is a New York dollar slice. Don’t get me wrong, this is not bad pizza; it’s a very traditional pie, rigid dough, above average in taste, lots of crumbs underneath to keep the pie dry and firm, with solidly crispy crust. The cheese is standard, nothing special, good flavor, not great, typical shredded pizza cheese. The sauce is on the sweet side, also nice flavor, but not memorable or distinct, still pretty good, definitely better than average. This is a fine “any day of the week” pie, a “dime-a-dozen” pizza, not bad, not exceptional. But the wildly high scores from the OneBite community led to lofty expectations that actually may have hurt my overall score since I felt like this was a big letdown. I think 7.3 is a very fair rating; don’t come here expecting a travel-worthy 8+ pie and to give this a 9+ is blasphemy.