There is no debate more Brooklyn than the pizza debate. Which slice is the greatest, which neighborhood does it best, whose grandma pie reigns supreme – these are the questions that unite us at school pickup and divide us at dinner parties. But here’s what we can all agree on: taking kids out for pizza is one of the great pleasures of Brooklyn parenthood. The good news is, this borough has more than enough great pizza to go around – enough that we could eat our way through it and still have arguments left over. Here’s our guide to the best family-friendly pizza places in Brooklyn:
BoCoCa: Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill
F&F Pizzeria (459 Court St, Carroll Gardens)
If you know, you know – and if you don’t yet, you’re about to become a regular. F&F is the brainchild of The Franks – Frank Falcinelli and Frank Castronovo – the beloved duo behind Frankies Spuntino, and their Sicilian square slice has achieved something close to neighborhood legend status. Crispy-bottomed, pillowy-topped, deeply sauced: this is the kind of pizza that silences a table of kids in the best possible way. Grab a couple squares and find a spot in Cobble Hill Park.
Baby Luc’s (387 Court St, Carroll Gardens)
Baby Luc’s is precisely the kind of pizza spot kids love and parents secretly love even more: fun, a little over-the-top, and genuinely delicious. The pepperoni slices are the move here – crispy-cupped, slightly charred, everything a child’s pizza dreams are made of. The energy is loud and casual, which means a little table chaos is entirely on brand. No one is giving you a look when your two-year-old drops a slice.
Layla Jones (214 Court St, Cobble Hill)
Named for the owners’ actual children – very Brooklyn – Layla Jones is a neighborhood staple that earns its loyal following slice by slice. The pies are straightforward and well-executed, the vibe is relaxed and genuinely welcoming to families, and there’s something deeply right about eating at a place named after kids when you’ve got kids in tow. It’s the kind of spot you become a regular at without even trying.
Aromi (552 Court St, Carroll Gardens)
Aromi hits the trifecta: excellent wood-fired Sicilian pies, a beautiful enclosed backyard perfect for warm-weather visits, and an authentic Italian imports feel that makes the whole experience feel a little transportive. The menu is tight and intentional, the crust has that ideal blistered char, and the backyard is a genuine gift on a sunny afternoon when the kids need room to breathe. Bonus points for the imported pantry goods if you want to take a little something home.
House of Pizza & Calzone (Carroll Gardens)
The name says it all, and the pizza lives up to it. Classic New York slices, reliably good calzones, and a neighborhood-diner warmth that makes it feel like home. But the real secret? House of Pizza is BYOW: bring your own wine. Pack a bottle of something good, let the kids have their plain slice, and suddenly a Tuesday dinner out feels like a special occasion. Cheers to that.
Sottocasa (298 Atlantic Ave, Boerum Hill)
Sottocasa makes wood-fired Neapolitan pizza the right way: thin, charred, simple, excellent. What bumps it onto this list is how genuinely welcoming it is to families – coloring pages arrive with the kids’ menus, service moves at a pace that respects that small children have a finite patience window, and the staff actually seems happy to see you walk in with a stroller. The Margherita is perfect, and the burrata to start will make you feel like a person again.
Opening Soon: Prince Street Pizza (271 Smith St, Carroll Gardens). The legendary Prince Street Pizza – famous for its spicy honey pepperoni squares in Manhattan – is coming to Smith Street on April 23, 2026. Mark the calendar now!
Brooklyn Heights
Brado (155 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn Heights)
Brado is the rare pizza spot that works equally well as a relaxed family lunch or a low-key adults-evening-out. The crust is impossibly thin and crispy, the toppings are thoughtfully chosen, and there’s craft beer on tap for the grown-ups who’ve earned it. The vibe is unhurried and genuinely welcoming — not a place where you feel rushed out – which, when you’re eating with small people who eat slowly, is a feature, not a footnote.
Dellarocco’s (214 Hicks St, Brooklyn Heights)
Dellarocco’s houses a Valoriani wood-fired oven handbuilt in Tuscany, and you can taste the difference. The Neapolitan pies come out of that oven blistered, aromatic, and genuinely beautiful – brick-fired in the traditional sense. The location, steps from the Brooklyn Promenade, makes it a natural anchor for a longer family evening: dinner first, then the walk along the Promenade with the Manhattan skyline laid out in front of you. There are worse ways to spend a Thursday.
Downtown Brooklyn
Little Pizza Parlor (192 Duffield St, Downtown Brooklyn)
In Downtown Brooklyn, Little Pizza Parlor on Duffield Street is a low‑key neighborhood favorite, slinging classic pies, late‑night slices, and no‑frills counter service right by MetroTech. It’s the kind of spot where you can duck in between errands or after a show and walk out with a hot slice and extra napkins tucked under your arm.
Table 87 (87 Atlantic Ave, Downtown Brooklyn)
For a classic coal‑oven slice, head to Table 87, the cozy Atlantic Avenue spot that helped put “coal oven by the slice” on the Brooklyn map. Grab a bar seat for a margherita slice, a glass of wine, and some people‑watching before or after your Brooklyn Heights promenade walk.
Fini Pizza at Pier 5 (Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 5)
Here is the pitch: coal-fired Neapolitan slices from a park-side window, while your children run absolutely feral in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Fini Pizza sits at Pier 5 inside one of the best parks in the city, and the combination of genuinely excellent pizza and kids-can-roam-free park energy makes it almost unfairly good as a family outing. The pies are serious – thin crust, quality ingredients, properly done – and the setting makes every slice taste better. This one checks every box.
Park Slope
La Villa (261 5th Ave, Park Slope)
La Villa has been feeding Park Slope families for over 40 years, and it’s earned every gray hair. The grandmother pizza – thick, square, caramelized at the edges – is the thing to order, and the giant focaccia is a legitimate table-quieter while you wait. It’s the kind of place that feels like it’s always been there because it has always been there, and the neighborhood loves it for exactly that reason. Generations of kids have grown up eating here, and that continuity is its own kind of recommendation.
Luigi’s Pizza (686 5th Ave, Park Slope)
At Luigi’s Pizza in South Slope, families come for the thin, old‑school New York slices and stay for the feeling that everyone knows your name. Kids can watch pies slide in and out of the oven behind the counter, while parents grab a cozy spot at one of the simple tables or eat their slices on the go between playground stops. The menu sticks to the classics done really well – plain, Sicilian, fresh mozzarella, and grandma slices – with just enough variety to keep picky eaters and adventurous tweens happy. Cash only!
Smiling Pizza (323 7th Ave, Park Slope)
Smiling Pizza has that old-school Park Slope energy that makes you feel like the neighborhood hasn’t entirely changed. The grandma pizza is the standout – crispy, oily in all the right ways, with a sauce-to-cheese ratio that hits correctly every time. The space is no-frills, the prices are honest, and the neighborhood has been coming back for decades. Sometimes reliability is the most underrated quality in a pizza spot.
Williamsburg & Greenpoint
L’Industrie is technically standing-room only and technically a place where you wait longer than you planned – but the burrata slice is so good that you will stop caring about both of those things immediately. Creamy, fresh, improbably delicious on a slice of New York pizza: it’s a thing. Pro tip: grab a few slices to go and walk them over to Domino Park, where the kids can run while you eat something truly excellent with a view of the Manhattan skyline. That’s a perfect afternoon.
Tony’s Pizzeria (175 Nassau Ave, Greenpoint)
Tony’s is your classic New York slice shop – no concept, no story, just very good pizza at a fair price, reliably executed. There is genuine comfort in this. The cheese slice is exactly what a cheese slice should be, the sauce is right, the crust folds properly, and the whole thing costs what pizza should cost. Sometimes you don’t want an experience. You want a slice. Tony’s has your back.
Best Pizza (33 Havemeyer St, Williamsburg)
Don’t let the name fool you into thinking this is a casual boast – Frank Pinello opened Best Pizza in a century-old former bakery in 2010, and the wood-burning oven has been earning that name ever since. Pinello grew up in Bensonhurst learning Sicilian cooking from his grandmother, and that heritage shows up in every pie: the white pizza is the one to order, and the Sicilian slices are the kind of thing kids will remember. No frills, genuinely excellent, properly Brooklyn.
Paulie Gee’s (60 Greenpoint Ave, Greenpoint)
Paulie Gee’s is the pizza spot that makes Greenpoint residents feel quietly smug about where they live. Wood-fired Neapolitan pies with inventive, thoughtfully named toppings in a warm, candlelit space – the Hellboy has a devoted following, and rightly so. The room has a welcoming, neighborhood-dinner energy that works well for families, and the staff tend to be genuinely happy to see you rather than just tolerating your children.
Fornino (849 Manhattan Ave, Greenpoint)
Fornino’s back garden is one of those genuinely useful pieces of local knowledge – a proper outdoor space where kids can exist between courses without anyone quietly suffering. The pizza is serious and award-winning: thin, wood-fired, with a menu that ranges from the reliably pleasing Margherita to more adventurous combinations that the grown-ups will appreciate. Multiple trophies on the wall, a beautiful garden in the back, and pizza that earns it. This one’s a warm-weather must.
Vinnie’s Pizzeria (148 Bedford Ave, Williamsburg)
Vinnie’s is a Bedford Avenue institution – the kind of unpretentious, rotating-slice-menu neighborhood joint that Williamsburg used to be defined by and still, thankfully, has. The creative daily specials are genuinely fun (pizza topped with mac and cheese, or buffalo chicken, or whatever they felt like that day), but the plain cheese is excellent and reliably available for the pickier members of your party. Affordable, casual, right off the L – it checks every box for a low-effort, high-satisfaction pizza outing.
Roberta’s at Domino Park (6 Grand St, Williamsburg)
The original Roberta’s in Bushwick earned two Michelin stars and helped define what Brooklyn pizza could be. The Domino Park outpost brings those same wood-fired, Neapolitan-inspired pies to the waterfront – which means you get genuinely excellent pizza and then a stroll along the East River with the skyline in front of you and the kids burning off energy ahead of you. There’s also a kids’ menu, which is not something Michelin-pedigreed restaurants offer often. Come for the pie, stay for the view.
DUMBO & Brooklyn Heights
Juliana’s (19 Old Fulton St, Dumbo)
Juliana’s is one of those places where the experience starts before you even get to the table. The coal-fired oven produces pies with a char and complexity you can’t fake, and the no-reservations policy means you show up at opening and wait in a line that moves faster than you’d expect. Yes, it takes some planning. Yes, it’s worth it — the walk across the Brooklyn Bridge afterward seals the whole thing as a proper Brooklyn family outing. Arrive early, bring snacks for the wait, and prepare for everyone to be very happy.
ABC Kitchens Dumbo (55 Water St, Dumbo)
ABC Kitchens Dumbo brings chef Jean‑Georges’ market‑driven cooking to families, with kid‑pleasing pizzas in a bright, spacious dining room at Empire Stores. Parents can enjoy seasonal salads, veggie‑forward small plates, and pastas while kids dig into thin‑crust pies and simple toppings, all with stroller‑friendly access, high chairs, and views of the bridges just outside the door.
L&B Spumoni Gardens (46 Old Fulton St, Dumbo)
L&B has been a Brooklyn institution since 1939, and the Sicilian square slice is the reason. Thick, pillowy, with sauce on top of the cheese in the Sicilian tradition – it is its own category of pizza, and it is exceptional. The legendary spumoni dessert afterward is non-negotiable: this is how you end the meal here, always. Great take-out slices for impatient kiddos!
Fort Greene
Graziella’s (232 Vanderbilt Ave, Fort Greene)
Graziella’s has been a Fort Greene fixture long enough to have outlasted multiple waves of neighborhood change, which tells you something. The wood-burning pizza has genuine Sicilian roots, the pies are executed with care, and the restaurant has that neighborhood-institution warmth that can’t be manufactured – it’s either there or it isn’t, and at Graziella’s, it is. A reliable, welcoming spot that rewards loyalty.
Red Hook
Hoek Pizza (117 Ferris St, Red Hook)
The name is Dutch for “nook” — a nod to Red Hook’s own history as a Dutch settlement — and the pizza is wood-fired Roman style: rectangular, airy-crusted, crackling at the edges. It’s the kind of detail that makes the whole thing feel intentional rather than accidental. Red Hook has always rewarded the effort it takes to get there, and Hoek is a worthy destination in its own right. Grab a pie, walk to Valentino Pier, watch the boats.
Ditmas Park / Flatbush
Wheated (905 Church Ave, Ditmas Park)
Wheated is a neighborhood gem in the truest sense – the kind of place that makes Ditmas Park residents insufferably smug when they talk about their neighborhood. The sourdough crust is the foundation of everything here: tangy, chewy, charred in all the right places. The artisan pies rotate with the seasons, but the quality is consistent. If you live in this part of Brooklyn and haven’t been, you’ve been leaving something on the table.
Midwood & Gravesend
You cannot write about Brooklyn pizza without writing about Di Fara, and you cannot write about Di Fara without acknowledging its weight. Domenico DeMarco opened this place in 1965 and made pizza here for decades, and his legacy lives in every pie that comes out of that kitchen. The lines are real, the wait is real, and the pizza – hand-cut basil, a drizzle of good olive oil, that sauce – is also very real. This is a pilgrimage, not a quick dinner. Go with kids old enough to understand they are in the presence of something significant.
Bay Ridge
Brooklyn Firefly markets itself as “Kid Friendly. Dog Friendly. People Friendly.” – and they are not lying on any count. The large outdoor yard is a genuine asset in warmer months, making it one of the better summer pizza destinations in the borough for families who need the kids to have somewhere to be while the adults eat something. The pizza is solid, the space is welcoming, and the combination of outdoor room and relaxed energy makes it an easy yes on a warm evening.
Honorable Mentions:
Pizza Wagon (8610 5th Ave, Bay Ridge) has been slinging pies since 1966 and the $3 slice is an honest-to-goodness steal in this economy. Keep it on your rotation when the budget needs a break and the kids need pizza immediately.
Bay Ridge Pizza Wars: The Bay Ridge BID hosts an annual Pizza Wars event where you can taste your way through the neighborhood’s best pies. It’s a fun, low-stakes family outing – follow the Bay Ridge BID for dates and details.
