V I Pizza
“I know that they're famous for their sicilian slices but I am loyal to my Spicy Chicken pizza.”
“Since moving to Jersey in 2000, this is a must stop when passing through Queens.”
“I am forever in love with garlic knots and most pizzerias havr either taken them off their menu or serve it half assed.”
V I Pizza
Take-out: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
8 reviews
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Solid pizzeria, conveniently located 3 blocks from my apartment. Large pies are surprisingly $2-3 cheaper than other places in the immediate area. Just the right amount of sauce and cheese. My only complaint is that they do not take credit cards.
Even though I live a couple blocks to say.. I shamelessly admit that I don't eat here often bc there is no delivery service. But if they did, oh man!! Id call every week. Their sicilian slices are amazing along with their garlic knots. I am forever in love with garlic knots and most pizzerias havr either taken them off their menu or serve it half assed. But over here, they are dripping with goodness! Not to mention their friendly staff~~
Dare I say… Best Pizza in Bayside. Yep I sure do.
I've had some amazing pizza in my life and VIP def ranks up there. It's a bit of a drive for me and they don't deliver to my house but whenever I am in the area I simply cannot resist popping in for a slice. Even if I am not even hungry. There's always room for a VIP slice 🙂
Great crust, good sauce to cheese ratio. Nice flavors and not skimpy on the toppings either. Pizza places may come and go but with pizza like this VIP ain't going nowhere anytime soon!
1 star or 2? Went here after reading some say the best Sicilian slice.
It all looked good and the texture of the crust was okay but these slices (and we had a regular too) had zero flavor. After eating we both looked at each other and said – just consumed 1,000 absolutely tasteless calories – I mean no flavor at all.. it was the strangest thing.
Still on the hunt for the best Sicilian.
I'm giving VIPizza five stars, not because it ranks up there with John's of Bleecker or Totonno's but because a) it's so far the best pizza I've had in Queens, and b) it's good old fashioned, true-blue, authentic old school NYC pizza.
VIPizza has been operating since 1959 — meaning, the store has seen Fidel Castro come to power, Alaska and Hawaii become states, the first man-made object reaches Moon, and the Twilight Zone airs its first episode. Now that's old school! The store has that old-school NYC feeling of the larger pizzeria (you know there were some pizzerias that were nothing more than a counter with circle seats? This place looks old-school, but has tables.)
A scan of their offerings shows they are definitely not skimpy on toppings, and they have many, many offerings. I wanted to know how good their pizza is, so I opted for their regular slice, which I'll get to in a moment. Unfortunately, they don't take credit cards, which sometimes makes me wonder about unreported income, but there are some restaurants that are so good and successful that missed profit due to lost sales doesn't bother them.
They specialize in pizza: They sell pizza, calzone, garlic knots, and nothing else. Since this is 2015, and not 1980, they do offer the modern stuff like grandma slices, spicy chicken toppings, etc, but I prefer to review the base of their offerings, which in the pizza world is a "regular slice", the kind you used to get for fifty cents in 1980.
Regular slice: A-
A common complaint I have about modern NYC pizza is the cheap and tasteless mozzarella. You bite into the slice and get a mouthful of flavorless oily gummy cheese. Yuck. The mozzarella at VIPizza has great flavor. Tastes very fresh.
The pizza has a little oil drip, but not overly much. I wouldn't call it an oily pizza. Pointing my pizza downward, I only had 2-4 drops, which is pretty good.
The tomato sauce is old-school NYC: fresh and dynamic but slightly bland. I would've liked to have a slightly more punchy tomato flavor. On the other hand, the tomato sauce was definitely *not* sweet, which is something I've come to hate about modern NYC pizza.
The ratios of cheese to sauce and sauce to crust is perfect. They have obviously been perfecting that for over 50 years, because I don't think it can get more perfect.
The crust is obviously fresh. It's a no-brainier that they make the dough there on the premises. The under crust is very thin. The outside crust is also thin (a pet-peeve of mine is the big "fluffy" outer rim crust you see on pizzas from abominations like Domino's). In fact, I daresay that the crust here is nearly perfect for this type of pizza. My one complaint is that the crust is a little too crusty when they take it out of the oven. When you fold the pizza in half, it cracks a little too much. I think this indicates their oven temperature might be too high for warming pizza. But it doesn't really matter because everything else is so perfect.
I went to bayside high school which was only a few blocks away from this Gem of a pizzeria. Aside from all the crazy high school related arguments that I've witnessed go down here around 3-3:30PM, I've always enjoyed their pizza.
This place is old school at it's finest. I had the pleasure of dropping by a few weeks ago and nothing has changed other than the prices. This place moves their pizza fast so you don't really have to worry about getting an old slice. I will say that reheated pizza always tastes better than the fresh stuff. Prey that you don't get a pie straight out of the oven. It's just not the same. :).
VI is one of the better pizza parlors in Queens. They have been in the same location for over 30 plus years. They make an awesome regular and Sicilian slice. I use to love coming here after getting polluted at 1ST Edition. But you don't have to get drunk to enjoy VI. Keep doing what your doing.
This has got to be my all-time favorite place to get pizza.
My best friend and I used to come here almost every single day when we were in 8th grade, we would walk home from 158 and go in, grab a slice, enjoy our slice and chat. The one slice we always always get is the Spicy Chicken slice and it is SO good. I've had spicy chicken slices in other places but it's never the same. Some pizza spots don't even offer spicy chicken and only have buffalo chicken but it's not the same!! I don't know why it's so good but I crave this almost every month it's pretty bad. The spicy chicken comes with blue cheese? (I'm really bad with cheeses) and it really compliments the spicy chicken. All their slices are thin but not too thin where it's like a piece of crispy paper. Their pepperoni slices are also good as well as their plain. I know that they're famous for their sicilian slices but I am loyal to my Spicy Chicken pizza. My parents usually get the sicilian and they always enjoy it!
The workers are also super friendly and joyful, it makes the experience even better.
Definitely try if you're on Bell Blvd, so worth it 🙂