Juliana's Pizza in Brooklyn Voted Best Pizza in America

Secret’s out.

Juliana’s Pizza in DUMBO is officially more well-liked than its jam-packed neighbor, Grimaldi’s — you know, the one with the overpriced pies and the down-the-block line messing up your sidewalk commute.

TripAdvisor, the more internationally utilized version of Yelp, released its list of America’s Top 10 pizzas today, based entirely on user reviews.

Juliana’s is No. 1 — and Grimaldi’s doesn’t even make the Top 10.

TripAdvisor says its list isn’t based on ratings alone. The “quantity and quality” of reviews for each pizza restaurant was taken into consideration, with extra weight placed on reviews from within the last year. The ratio of pizza-related reviews to non-pizza-related reviews for each pizzeria was also taken into account.

Inexplicably, TripAdvisor actually names Chicago as the best American city for pizza over New York.

But we’ll ignore that absurd piece of data and focus on the nation’s Top 10.

1. Juliana’s Pizza, Brooklyn, New York

2. Pizza Time of St Augustine, St. Augustine, Florida

3. Moose’s Tooth Pub and Pizzeria, Anchorage, Alaska

4. Keste, New York

5. Tony’s Pizza Napoletana, San Francisco

6. Regina Pizzeria, Boston

7. Antico Pizza Napoletana, Atlanta

8. Bill’s Pizza, Palm Springs, California

9. Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, New Haven, Connecticut

10. John’s of Bleecker Street, New York

If you’re unfamiliar with the legendary rivalry between Juliana’s and Grimaldi’s, we’ll point you toward this 2012 piece from New York Magazine, which the owner of Juliana’s now has taped to his front window.

As quick a summary as one can manage, via the Village Voice:

Patsy Grimaldi has been no stranger to pizza-related conflict over the years. A tiff with the group that took over his deceased uncle’s Harlem pizzeria, Patsy’s, forced him to change the name of his Brooklyn pizzeria from Patsy’s to Grimaldi’s in the mid-1990s. But his current feud began when he sold Grimaldi’s to Frank Ciolli in 1998, which started a long-festering clash that played out in a way that belongs in a movie script: When Grimaldi’s was forced out, Patsy Grimaldi moved back into his old restaurant space, where the coal-fired oven was still intact, to open a new pizzeria, Juliana’s, to best his nemesis the good old-fashioned way--by doing better business. Ciolli tried to sue, but the case was tossed out, and now the joints operate side by side.

So today’s news must be another sweet slice of revenge for Mr. Grimaldi. We’ve reached out to both restaurants for comment.

UPDATE! Grimaldi’s employee Gina picks up the phone at the shop today. When we tell her the news about Juliana’s, she says, ”Really? That would shock me. Not that they’re not good, but there are a lot of pizzerias in America.”

We ask how it feels to see the competition come out on top.

“They’re really not competition,” she says. “We’re friendly, actually. They do a third of the business we do and they have a much smaller place.”

She says there’s so much demand for pizza in the “thriving area under the Brooklyn Bridge” that both the restaurants have plenty of business.

“Congratulations to them,” she says.