Amore Pizzeria

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30-27 Stratton St (31st Road)
Flushing, NY 11354
(718) 445-0579
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Tucked into a Flushing strip mall along with a check cashing joint, Carvel, and a Pathmark, off the Whitestone Expressway just a few minutes before it takes you over the East River to the Bronx, is an under-mentioned and quintessential Queens slice joint called Amore Pizza.

This is a no-frills sliceria that’s been around for about 40 years, the kind of spot that graces best-of-Queens lists from time to time. Truckers, taxi drivers, construction workers, and police officers stop in for super soupy slices barely thick enough to hold up to the sauce and cheese (their outrageous proportions almost make it seem like someone squared the original recipe’s measurements and left the crust to just deal with it).

There have been quibbles about this among the pizza cognoscenti, to which this year’s pizza panel replied, “We’d say ‘Shut your mouth when you chew on this insanely-satisfying slice,’ but all that cheese and sauce would burn the roof of it.”

— Arthur Bovino, 101 Best Pizzas in America 2015, 8/6/2015

The Daily Meal Editors and Community Say...

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  • Best pizza on EARTH Period!!!
    Kim | 2013-09-04 19:59:00
  • Best pizza in queens!! Amores > Lucias
    Yongjoo | 2010-10-09 14:28:42
  • Absolutely the best pizza in queens
    Chef Catman | 2012-07-20 12:46:32
  • heavy on sauce and cheese, but the crisp thin crust standas up well to all of it.
    Serious Eats | 2012-02-06 11:37:38
  • Awesome pizza... Great sausage... Great guys
    Eve | 2011-04-10 13:07:46
  • Their lasagna is fantastic! Chicken Parm Hero is good too!
    Heather | 2013-01-20 15:02:42
  • Haven't been to Amores since I moved from College Point. By far the best pizza around.
    Dave | 2012-12-12 15:28:12
  • Great slice!!! Stop here for your pizza fix!
    Dan | 2012-06-03 12:21:50
  • Pepperoni slice or Chicken Parm!!!
    Heather | 2012-02-20 18:34:57
  • Some of the best Italian food in Queens! Gets crowded around dinner time, and before and after Mets games.
    Jason | 2011-04-23 18:47:22
  • They have the best baked ziti here
    Suzanna | 2010-09-26 17:23:21
  • Best Sicilian in College Point!
    Marilyn | 2010-09-03 21:50:26
  • Plain slice is aight, Sicilian is amazing
    Mike | 2018-12-07 12:28:21
  • Sabor autntico italiano
    Grace Caroline | 2018-05-14 17:00:39
  • If you're not male or tall you'll be ignored.
    Jean | 2017-07-07 19:08:33
  • The best pizza in Queens!!
    Yongjoo | 2017-02-24 09:50:56
  • Best Sicilian pizza you will ever have!
    Stephanie | 2017-01-28 23:30:22
  • I simple cheese pizza is spectacular! Sauce & crust was all on point!
    DaRealVick | 2016-12-04 15:09:47
  • I've been coming here since I was a kid but they've changed & not for the better. They almost sent my Aunt to the ER & didn't give a shit. I refuse to go there anymore cuz of the waitress.
    Raquel | 2016-10-10 18:08:07
  • When your back in Flushing, you got to have some old time pizza. This is the place.
    Kevin | 2016-09-30 10:34:03