Lenny’s Pizzeria
“always open when I need them and the garlic knots and yum-tastic!”
“This is nothing fancy but it's a great slice (perhaps with pepperoni if you're feeling adventurous, I usually just get a plain slice).”
“Great place to grab quick take out and walk right across the street to Buttermilk Bar for a few drinks and your delicious Italian food.”
Lenny’s Pizzeria
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
8 reviews
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Love the history, hated the pizza. Walking in, you can tell the place has been open a long time, just from the design and layout of the pizzeria is an indication. It's a classic, old school pizzeria that offers pretty much all of what NY pizzerias offer. Once you get inside, there is a display of what they sell from reg slices, to sicilians, to grandmas to margaritas etc but the first thing that I noticed on all the pies, which was a very bad indication of how my pizza would turn out, was the cheap look of the cheese. I was born and raised in NY and I have been eating pizza since I was a little kid and as much as I appreciate the nostalgia of a classic, old school pizzeria, the pizza here was a miss.
The food:
Grandma slice- This is usually my go to since you usually have a nice tangy sauce that combines a focaccia like bottom with nice stringy cheese, this was not. It tasted like toasted cardboard with government cheese. #SadFace This might have to be one of the worse Grandma slices I ever had. When you use cheap ingredients, a bad end product will show. On the bright side, the sauce was pretty good, it had a nice tang.
Reg slice- The cheese was the first thing I noticed and it wasn't pretty. The bottom had a slight crunch, but it was floppy and boring and depressing.
If you are looking to get a tasty, fresh slice of pizza for lunch and are walking down 5th Ave through South Park Slope and into the nebulous zone of "Greenwood Heights," continue walking right past Lenny's and proceed to Luigi's for a far superior slice. If, however, you are looking for late night eats, do let the blazing lights, which let pedestrians know loudly and clearly that Lenny's is indeed still open for business, welcome you to this rather average, barely-a-step-above-Ray's pizza joint.
The blazing lights on Lenny's sign are echoed by the obnoxiously bright, fluorescent decor of the interior, which can boast of only one thing–ample seating space. I tried a margarita slice here, which had likely been sitting out all day, then reheated to an acceptable temperature, along with some garlic knots. The slice was nothing to write home about–cardboardy crust, not very tasty sauce, not especially fresh mozzarella. The garlic knots were wrapped in tinfoil on their way into the oven, and as a result, needed to be reheated longer than my slice. Due to the rush job of the counter person, I received lukewarm, though tasty and cheap knots. Incidentally, an Italian-American friend of mine who lives nearby concluded that the sauce served on the side here with rolls (and possibly also the sauce on all the pies) consists solely of canned tomato juice. She thought that if Lenny's weren't going to make its own sauce, the least it could due is serve some nuked up Ragu in a plastic cup to achieve proper consistency.
If you like your slices OOOOZING with tons of cheese then the Lenny's special slice is the right choice. They're open pretty late too!
Based solely on the Wednesday night special of two pies for $18 — you can't go wrong. Got a tasty sausage pie for dine-in; came out steaming hot! Not sure if I'd pay full price though.
It's pretty much the only food place in my boyfriend's Park Slope/Sunset Park neighborhood that's open after 10pm that isn't fast food.
The pizza is pretty decent, nothing spectacular to rave about.
It's good for when your stumbling home drunk or just super hungry.
I don't know why the guy behind the counter thinks I'm Spanish.
I blame my boyfriend.
Growing up in the neighborhood I have experienced the good and bad of this pizzeria. It use to be one of the best in Park Slope many years ago when Lenny was alive. Such is life that nothing lasts forever. When in a pinch, this is a good place as any other around the hood to grab a slice. It's not horrible, just plain. These days I enjoy their meatball and chicken farm sandwiches which are a better bet to fill my tummy!
Way over-due for the review. After a mini bar crawl catch up with one of my friends back in October we decided we were pretty hungry and slightly inebriated. I've been to Lenny's numerous times when I used to live closer in the area or had more reasons to come out to South Slope. Always open when desperate and hits the spot. It's not blow me out of this world pizza but its not bad either. It's average – but good average. Crispy crust, good cheese to sauce ratio. They keep re-making new pizzas all night long so it tasted fresh and piping hot. We decided to splurge after noticing there were 40s of Bud in the fridge. Asked how much they were – only $3. To sit and split a huge thing of beer at a pizza place, kind of an awesome deal. The owner was being silly and dropping pans as we were sitting and chatting. My friend joked that he should probably give us another 40 of bud for making so much noise. Much to my embarrassment and shock the owner opens up another bottle for us free of charge. I insisted my friend was kidding but it was regardless the most awesome thing that happened that night. I think his name was Joe. Super nice and really funny! I don't really understand the negative reviews. People need to lighten up.
Most of these by-the-slice pizza places scattered all over NY wont be the best pizza you'll ever have, but it's still pretty darn good for something that looks so simple and basic, and I made it my tourist mission to try as many slices as I could while I was there. Lenny's doesn't stand out from the crowd, but it tasted like a decent NY slice to me.