L’industrie Pizzeria West Village

The rim stays puffy over a crunchy undercarriage.1 Will Hartman scored the Christopher Street shop 9.0 in July 2026.

Why go

The Williamsburg shop is the one people cross the bridge for, and this Christopher Street room is its Manhattan follow-up, opened in larger digs with a pressed-tin ceiling and seats.2 You can sit down here and bring people without hunting for a stoop. The Infatuation goes to the burrata, Eater to the plain. Buy both.

Order this / avoid

Order: the spicy salami slice, cut from the imported salami.1
Order: the plain margherita if it is your first time. Both sources rate it and Eater rates it highest.2
Order: the burrata slice, which they apply as the slice reheats.2
Order: the gelato, finished with olive oil and flaky salt.1
Avoid: turning up mid-week for the sandwiches on any day but Wednesday. The specials run Wednesdays only.1
Avoid: the namesake slice if you want to eat standing up. Matthew Schneier found the prosciutto and burrata on it awkward without a knife and fork and went back to the margherita at $3.50.3

What locals & experts say

Will Hartman, The Infatuation, 11 July 2026, rating it 9.0: We've said it once, we'll say it 100 times: L'industrie in Williamsburg makes the city's best slice, fancying up classic pies with a long fermentation and ingredients imported from Italy.1
Nadia Chaudhury, Eater NY, updated 20 August 2026: we prefer the plain pie, which is thin-crusted and cheesy, really the perfect neighborhood slice.2
Matthew Schneier, New York Magazine's restaurant critic, on the margherita after he had given up on the namesake slice (18 January 2024): its thin crust mottled on the bottom with char. Its sauce is on the tangier side, its cheese application on the light. For $3.50, you could do much worse.3
Morgan Carter queued for it for Time Out New York on 17 September 2025 and came out on the side of the wait, which she puts down to Massimo Laveglia, the Tuscan-born chef who started the Williamsburg shop in 2017.5

Good to know

Doors: three L'industrie shops trade. Williamsburg came first, this Christopher Street room second, Little Italy last, and The Infatuation's city pizza guide rates the crust the same at all three.1 8
Booking: none. It is a counter and a line, and the line runs down the block on a Friday evening.5
What they call themselves: the home of the burrata slice, in the shop's own words, which is worth knowing before you order anything else.7
How the toppings go on: Eater's pizza map records that the ricotta, burrata, spicy salami and truffle oil are applied to plain slices as they are ordered, which is the same at every door.6
The block: Mama's Too is one block away, and neither shop knew the other was coming when they signed their leases. Two of the city's best slices, by accident, on the same walk.4
While you wait: the doorman at TALEA Beer Co next door invites people holding slices back in for a beer.5

Jeff's take (his words)

Note: "A top pizza place"

Verdict

must-visit — Counter stools, framed Rocky II posters, Outkast on the stereo. Eat standing up and do not build an evening around it.

L’industrie Pizzeria West Village.