"Razza is to Jersey City what The Eiffel Tower is to Paris or Britney Spears is to Kentwood, Louisiana. It’s one of the first things people mention when talking about the city, and it draws crowds from all over the country. That’s because it’s home to some of the very best pizza we’ve ever had, and that’s saying quite a lot. A chalkboard in the middle of the industrial-looking dining room illustrates where they source ingredients like heirloom tomatoes, wild yeast and flour for the dough, and mozzarella and ricotta. (Hint: it’s all from The Garden State). The pizza has a thin, springy crust—the outer rim gets charred in the wood-burning oven in the open kitchen, but it’s still fluffy and salty underneath the crisp outside—and excellent toppings like pine nuts and raisins on the Di Natale and raclette and leeks on the Potato Pie." - matt tervooren, nisha vedi pawar, kendal nicole lambert