Vesuvius Pizza

My boyfriend loves this place. I think it’s his favorite spot for pizza. He has to get a slice whenever he takes me home.
Their slices are thin and crispy. Both my boyfriend and my family prefers thinner pizza so this is great for them.

This pizza place is located in a busy corner on Kings Hwy. This is by far has the BEST pizza that is made with FRESH ingredients and have the consistency you should expect from a good pizzaria anytime of the year — day or night. Their specialty pizza are awesome and the regular pie are spectacular! You can’t go wrong with this place.

Great pizza. Best place in the neighborhood. When fresh during the day, their specialty slices are amazing. One is filling but you always go back for a second. Sure if you catch it in the evening or when slow then they would have to reheat the slice, as does every pizzaria everywhere, ever, aside from difarras (sp?) of course. But its still tastier and more appetizing than most places around.

My first time but it’s a favorite spot for my friend. Located on the corner with limited seating and friendly service though. Her and I had a quick stop here today and I am still craving for more. My spinach slice was super savory and delicious. The dough was light and crispy while the slice was loaded with spinach. Definitely coming back to try the other varieties.

Pizza was dry dry dry. Please put more sauce not just cheese, don’t be so cheap with your sauce. I won’t be back.

Vesuvius Pizza, you make a good slice. Much better than your competitor down the street, J&R or whatever. Perfect crust, foldable, salty and creamy tasting cheese, mild sauce, and great, flavorful pepperoni. Thank you for the pizza eating experience. Your Sopranos posters on the wall make for a lovely kitschy touch. Can’t wait to return.

Not that great. Was lured in by hunger and needed to feed the family. Ordered a whole pie but was surprised that when you order a whole pie, they shrink the pizza! Everyone who ordered slices had big slices around us. Our pie was made up of slices ¾ the size of everyone else’s. The crust was thin and crispy but too thin. There wasn’t much cheese on the pie either. The layer of cheese was as thin as the crust. I had three slices but my hunger still lingered. As we drove home, my wife agreed with me, we stopped by a dumpling house for dumplings and sesame pancakes bc we were still so hungry.
So, I did like their crust actually but I was annoyed our pizza was so small and lacked even cheese. Avoid this place if you need a pie. Maybe it’s ok for slices.
Wife suggested I add that we did order a large pizza. Should we have ordered extra large?

Good service and fast delivery. I always used to eat there when I was working there 6 years ago. There are more pizzerias there but this place is my favorite. Now that I live near with my family we always order from there. It’s a comfortable place to eat. It’s in the corner and has a door on each side. It’s really a small place. The only problem is that the large pie is really small. It looks like a medium pie and they are very thin.

Amazing pizza! Thinnest crust. delicious sauce. It was like warm heaven down my throat… The owners are great and super welcoming and always smiling … Small but cozy place. A+ food and health inspection. Definitely recommend going for an amazing slice of pizza! Everything else is also delicious pepperoni rolls, chicken rolls, calzones etc etc

I love this little hole in the wall. They happen to have amazing pizza, and really not expensive. They also have chicken calzones, garlic knots, etc etc. They have every flavor of snapple and all different types of sodas.
The place is literally the size of my walk in closet. They have 4 tables.
I usually take out, I don’t want to sit there, claustrophobia…

I lived around the corner from here back in ’91 to about ’93. The smell of pizza from the place is probably one of the first whiffs of pizza I had. I mean this smell was quintessential nyc pizza. I haven’t smelled that particular smell in over a decade, and I’ve had amazing pizza since then, but the smell disappeared and I wasn’t sure why.
Today I needed that smell, an aroma that brought me back to childhood. I came to Kings Hwy and craving pizza decided to drop by Vesuvius, though I can’t really be certain that’s what it was called way back when since I moved just far enough for it to be really inconvenient.
I was mortified, the smell wasn’t there. Nothing, not one bit. There wasn’t even the standard aroma of a pizza place, the spices, the heat from the oven, none of it. Surely a literal hole in the wall, no bigger than 6×15 place would have some sort of aroma to it.
I ordered the special, two slices and a soda for 5 bucks, surprisingly more expensive than my go to utility pizza place. The pizza, coming out of being reheated no doubt was crunchy but not the kind of crunchy you want. It’s more like it’s been reheated so many times that there’s no moisture left in it. The sauce lacked any flavor and the cheese itself dried like plastic after going thru a microwave. This was the most unpleasant experience of pizza I’ve had. I go to the «New York» pizza places outside of NY to remind me never to take NYC pizza for granted and as bad as those fail they have some semblance of flavor. This had none.
TLDR and conclusion: I won’t be coming back, and you should avoid this place. It’s overpriced and the product is cardboard. Blegh!

It’s like I’m out of my mind. Or maybe New York is making me hallucinate. Is this really the thinnest crust I’ve had in a long time? On a twice reheated, cheese decroded slice of pizza that does not have enough sauce on? I blame either the wear gentrification has on Italian-​owned businesses, or my nostalgia for the Mount Vernon grimy pizza places back when I first was «steamin up car windows» (or eating pizza on the floor of the parking lot in A&P Fleetwood more like in my gold sneakers). But, while Polito’s is fresh out of the oven, its odd cardboardy crust doesn’t compare (to um, A’Mangiare) and somehow Rizzo’s similarly overheated slice with one piece of cheese ungenerously slapped on. Chris Rock still likes his Whodini and I still like like MF DOOM and, um, Fleetwood Joe’s/Scala Pizza.