"An important piece of information for all: you can reserve the basement cave of Emily West Village for a private party without committing to a prix-fixe menu or paying an extra fee. There’s a wood-fired oven down there, all of the Detroit-style square pizzas and burgers from the normal menu, and you can hang with your group (up to 12 people you actually like enough to invite) for a max of three hours. But private basement or not, having your 25th at Emily West is the fastest way to reboot your ninth birthday pizza party in a way that’s neither juvenile nor Chuck-E Cheese sponsored." - Hannah Albertine, Bryan Kim