NYC Burned Again In Pizza Ranking, Report Says

NEW YORK CITY — Avert your eyes if you swear by New York City's pizza pies.

Gotham isn't the best pizza city in America — that honor goes to Portland, Oregon, according to an upcoming book.

This saucy take was first reported by Bloomberg in a story profiling Nathan Myhrvold and Francisco Migoya, who ate 400 pizzas across the country for their book "Modernist Pizza."

The majority of pizzas they had in New York City were disappointing, the pair found.

“There are great pizzerias in New York, but unfortunately, one of our other findings was that famous old pizzerias aren’t very good,” Myhrvold told Bloomberg, singling out L&B Spumoni Garden and Tomasso’s, as “terrible.”

It goes without saying that New York City's pizza supremacy is taken as cheesy gospel among city dwellers.

But the "Modernist Pizza" authors aren't the only ones to recently try to slice off the city's crown.

A Food & Wine ranking of best pizza states gave New Jersey the top spot, followed by Connecticut — Connecticut! — and, finally, New York.

The ranking faulted New York's "aggressive self-belief in its own pizza." Likewise, Myhrvold — who is Microsoft's former chief technology officer — told Bloomberg that one of the two best pizza is Razza in Jersey City.

Again, for those fuzzy on geography, Jersey City isn't New York City.

Myhrvold and Migoya did give favorable reviews to Brooklyn pizzerias L’Industrie Pizzeria, Lucali, and Ops, and Kesté in Manhattan.

But overall they found Portland's pizza scene didn't rest on its doughy laurels.

“We had an inkling it would be good, but we were shocked at how good it was," Myhrvold told Bloomberg.

Read the whole Bloomberg story here.