"...the city's best pizza." - Sam Sifton
#1: Motorino - 2009 Roundup, Best Pizzerias in New York - Frank Bruni
"...that new Motorino place in Williamsburg?  ...AWESOME..." - Adam Kuban for Slice
2009 People's Choice Awards: Best Whole Pie in NYC
2010 People's Choice Awards: Best New School Pizzeria in NYC
Mathieu Palombino's regular pies at Motorino are shockingly good. His meatball pies are shockingly good. His clam pies are shockingly good. On their own, the smoky, porky chunks of pancetta, creamy fior di latte, dusting of Parmigiano Reggiano, and thin slices of garlic on his Brussels Sprouts pies would be shockingly good. Add in the nutty, charred leaves from the just kissed by the fire of a 1,000°F oven, and you enter the realm of transcendent. We dream of this pizza.
#1: Motorino - Best New Pizza Joints in the City - "Good bubbles; this is Cindy Crawford pizza."
- Mario Batali
"The best faux-Neopolitan pizza joint in this pizza-mad borough is at Mathieu Palombino's original Motorino." - Adam Platt
Eat Out Awards 2008:  Best Artisan Pie
Eat Out Awards 2009:  Best New Pizzeria
"Palombino fires Neopolitan pizza like no others." - Ryan Sutton
2009 Survey of the Best Pizzerias in America: North East Coast Division Winner
2010  Bib Gourmand
2011 Bib Gourmand
"It's worth it to be blown away."


"...man, I've never seen a pizza like this in New York." - Anthony Mangieri