Davinci Pizza Restaurant

Went to Davinci Pizza Restaurant for lunch on Monday. A standard slice of pizza that will get the job done, but won't cause much excitement.Quality: The pizza at Davinci Pizza Restaurant was decent. It had its flaws, such as limited and crunchy crust, but it was still enjoyable. Just nothing remarkable or special about the pizza. I preferred the Slice of White I had here, with its large tasty spots of ricotta. Pizza I would order again, but not be in a rush to grab.Quantity: Standard size pizza slices.Value: $2.75 for a Plain Slice. $3.50 for a Speciality Slice.Ambiance: Davinci Pizza Restaurant is located in the FiDi of Manhattan. It is a large shop with tons of tables for guests. The kitchen area is at the back, and on a cooler day the heat of the oven made the space feel great.Crowd: Relatively busy for Monday afternoon. A constant lunch crowd flow.Service: Fast and efficient. Tables could use some more regular cleaning as most areas were messy and greasy.Parking: No real parking except in monthly garages.

One word...AWFUL.I wont even give it star but you all know the drill.I order a chicken roll, chicken had no flavor, yes some cheese and the dough was hard. Got a side of tomato sauce bit it was bland, no taste.Will not go back for food ever!

This is a great pizza place local to the neighborhood. They recently moved from 34 to 44 water street. They have tons of choices and the pizza sauce is seasoned well. The new place had more tables, and the service is quick!

Davinci Pizza Restaurant is just awesome. Very cute spot with good prices and excellent choices. Every item that we have purchased was extremely fresh and flavorful. Service was wonderful and every one working here was extremely nice and helpful. Amazing! Will return and recommend this spot always.

Comfortably situated across from The S&P Global offices this pizza spot has great service, but the food doesn't quite hit the mark. I got the Chicken Parmesan platter and it was a great size portion but the flavor was just really not there. The casual ambience was expected and I was pleasantly surprised the tables weren't propped up on napkins like so many smaller pizza places tables are. So this was okay for the price but I wouldn't make this my normal lunch spot.

The worst pizza I've had in a long time. There was barely any sauce. What little sauce that was there was bland, dry (the pizza was overcooked), and tasteless.The cheese was flavorless and melted as if they put cheese slices on the pizza rather than grated cheese. It melted completely wrong. It made me gag ... it was a mass of spongy flavorless gop. Horrible. I had 6 bites and tossed the rest.My pizza: http://tinyurl.com/cb86txtNotice the complete lack of sauce, and the very poor cheese melting. The amount of toppings was generous, so that's a plus. But the only flavor to this pizza was "saltt". Yuck!

Let me start by saying that I have never stepped foot inside this restaurant. I have however eaten a great deal of their pizza - all delivered to our office. Understand; I don't live in NYC. I do however manage a staff of 36 born and raised New York City residents and when it comes time to order food everyone gets a say. When pizza is the craving if the day - to a person - they demand that it be from Da Vinci's. I understand that pizza standards are personal and subjective. Thin, thick, saucy, cheesy, pan, stone, stuffed, stuffed crust (They don't sell those in real pizzerias BTW.), chewy, crispy....the adjectives go on and on. Here's where Da Vinci nails it. Their motto is "Unforgettable, fresh pizza". It is indeed just that. EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!! I don't know how they do it. Their pizza arrives as hot as if you were eating it there. The hottest it's ever been was when we had guests in from VA. They had heard all about how great NYC pizza is (Which isn't always true. There is a LOT of bad pizza out there.) and couldn't wait to try it. They weren't disappointed. Those pizzas not only had to travel blocks, on foot. They were delayed at security, sat while someone went down 39 floors to the lobby to get them, THEN had to be brought up those same 39 floors. Plates, cups and utensils were divvied up and when those boxes were finally opened, that pizza was hot enough to burn the roof of my mouth - which it did. Mine and a few other folks. The flavor is magnificent and they are substantial. Two slices fill me up and I'm typically a four slice guy. The chicken topping is a staff favorite. Chunks of breaded & fried chicken cutlet distributed evenly and generously on the pie. Another thing about pizza is that it's the little things that add up to a great one. Da Vinci's is completely cut all the way through - evenly. It's never burned nor raw. The toppings are evenly distributed and the crust doesn't intrude into the topping "landing zone". (Wide crusts are a way to cut costs as they diminish a pizzas ingredient area, leaving you eating more bread than sauce, cheese or toppings. They're also an indication of a novice pizza maker who fears ingredients sliding off the crust and into the oven. Excessive flour on the bottom is also another novice give-away. None of that business at Da Vinci's. Maybe one day I'll go there and try out their other food. I'm told their chicken rolls are good. Until then......anyone up for pizza?

I once found a clump of hairs embedded inside one of my meatballs after I bit into it.YOU READ THAT RIGHT.HAIR IN THE MEATBALLS.GOOD GOD.

So I have to revise my review here. I *think* I reviewed this restaurant thinking we'd had delivery from here and it was another restaurant. Yikes and oops, so I would like to re-post (2/20/08).Having just gotten back from here, I'd like to up the original 2 stars for who-knows-what-restaurant to 3 stars for what I *know* is the right restaurant. Is it fancy? Nah. Does it looks like it should be? Nah! Good stuff. I had their pizza rolls -- one veggie (primarily spinach and garlic - mmmm delish, wanna kiss? hah) and the other pepperoni. The cheese was far superior to the mozzarella crap-o-la you usually find at low-grade pizza stops. So instant upgrade in my book.Quick, fast, and pleasant service. Thumbs up and belly full!

What can I say it's okay when you get then freshly made from the oven What can I say meal is OK like there different pizza even the veggie one but you got to catch then when the are freshly made.