Pizza review: DeLUCIA"S BRICK OVEN PIZZA (Raritan, NJ) A national treasure! 

I came here after Dave's 9.4 review he uploaded 1 hour ago. Stunning pizza!

Portnoy gave this pie a 9.4 yesterday, good review!

Crazy how Dave’s review brought me here.

Interesting score of 1, 2, 3 times two to the six

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Just found this channel, great review! Nice job keep up the good work

Listen to that Crunch 4:08

nice job with the review. Just found the channel. I respect the passion you have for the art of pizza making. And it is an art.

I grew up in bridgewater which borders raritan nj. Grew up on this pizza and some other pizza places over the years. They used to sell then frozen at the grocery store as well. I miss the pizza of New Jersey so much.

Im glad your page popped up. You do a great job at these reviews.

The dough box is very cool looking. Like the light open kitchen as well. Good video shots of the pizza prep, Ton of sauce gives that awesome orange color when the cheese melts and caramelizes in. Another well-done review. Your reviews really do give a"next-best-thing-to-being there" feel.

"Oh, it feels phenomenal"....looks phenomenal too Of the "best" ones that i havent had, this is the one I want to try the most.

Great find! I appreciate these reviews more than the well known spots.

Excellent job with this one, Antonio. That’s really cool you got to get those shots behind the counter. You were not too far from the center I drive out of for work. I’m gonna make a point to check this spot out soon.

Excellent Review. Got to check out Delucia’a !!! 8:12

It was and is a good idea to show or tell how much the pizza cost.

37% of the time he sounds exactly like Peter Griffen

Man this video is making me drool, looks so good !

What's up Antonio that's exactly how I love my pizza sauce and cheese to the edge. 100 year old oven! Can't beat it.

My God, that’s a good one, Antonio. I’m only half way through the video. You found a gem.

9.6 For the Oven alone. Right off the bat.

The sausage pie here, really is as good as advertised. The Calzones are excellent as well. For a while I was into all these high hydration doughs, now I am starting to appreciate the lower ones. It's been a while. I need to get back here.

I'm going to be in the New York area next month and definitely planning to make the trip down to Raritan. You can't get pizza like this in Texas. Does anyone know if you need to make a reservation or can you just walk in to get a pie? I heard since One Bite did a review, this place gets large crowds.

Great review! Can’t wait to try this! It’s road trip time! 💯🍕🎉

Been eating here since the 60's, my parents before me. Christian DOES add a 2nd cheese. If you missed it, you weren't watching. He finishes with a drizzle of olive oil. I've had Pizza ALL over the metro area, dozens of places, and Delucia's is and always will be my go-to. My issue is now that people outside the area know him, the regulars can't get an order in! In the entire metro area, in my top 3 for sure. Unlike so many other NJ pizzeria's, there is NO Roma-Foods product here, so if you like that generic Pizza strip-mall taste, this isn't for you. Cheese is from a PA producer. And that 'creek' is the Raritan River.

From CNY but live in SC since 2016. Not a chance of finding pizza close to that down here.

That staff you get and pay for your staff to care for the food as much as owner. That’s how you get love

i live 5 mins away and this place has ALWAYS been slept on but only locals really know. Portnoys review will make it impossible to get a pie now lol

it looks really good for sure , its debatable on scores 9.4 is about as high as you can go, your rating 8.7 seems good

I was raised in Pepe’s and sals In new haven. I’ll go all the way down to NJ just to try this pizza if it’s that good. How does it compare to the new haven legends?

That's an oil burner on the coal door at 0:35. The oven was built as a coal unit, but they now use oil. They fire it up for a few hours in the morning, shut it off and cook the lunch run, then fire it up again in the afternoon, and shut it off and cook the dinner run. Which explains their operating hours each day: 12 noon to 2 pm, then 4 to 9 pm. This is a rare combination, but it comes with a curse: run too many pies through it, and it cools the oven down quicker. With that said, I hope they never change it.

Props to you Antonio for hittin this spot before Prez. Doubt it’s a 9.4 like he rated but now I gotta check it out. So it is coal oven right?

You Gotta try Anthony’s coal fire. Extra cheese extra sauce and welldone is the way to go. Moved to jersey from Brooklyn, and it’s honestly a pretty decent 8.4 pizza.

I enjoyed the video!

Glad you made it there. I gave it an 8.8. Really great review. The music was on point also.

Sweet baby jesus, that looks awesome! Watching them put the sauce on the pie and pinch the crust, shows how much pride they take it their product! I just added this place to my bookmarks on the one bite app, and will definitely hit it up when I eventually do a NJ trip. How in the world has Dave not hit this place up? Seems like it would be right up his alley, and he would shit himself over that oven! LOL!

In my opinion, New Jersey pies are right behind New Heaven's in taste, looks, quality and notoriety. GO New Jersey.

I like how everything is measured and it’s kids making the pie. Well structured. It’s all about the oven. Makes you think they should franchise.

handsome guy eating delicious pizza, high score

This really looks like the perfect pizza for me. Lots of sauce, not too much cheese. Fluffy and crunchy. Damn

hope i can try and taste that simple delicious pizza.. pizza lover here from philippines🙂

Spot by the castle like building in the Raritan River that you showed is a good fishing spot.

I can hear the freaking crunch wow

I’ve been eating Delucias since the 1980s .. That was a solid score. I would not have been surprised though if you gave it a 9.3 lol because you probably know this as well as I do .. the video does not do it justice.. Delucias is the best

that a nice looking pie

He’s most likely using bread flour for his dough. I personally use it for my pizzas and it chars exactly like that.

Great to see you at Katz 😊

Lots of good spots in NJ just more spread out than NY.

This place looks kick ass I live in NJ got to get to this place had the fireball pizza today from the galley in Asbury and really I enjoyed it

Awesome review once again and thanks on the explanation for not meeting the 9 expectation...still a must try 👍🏼and now on my list. Thanks! ♥️ Is there a form for a private conversation or an Email?

Do coal fired pizzas taste smoky or charred or like coal?

I just had delucias 2 days ago and it was really good. However there is an unknown gem in Newark Ohio called plaza pizza and it is better. A little different style but I haven't found anything yet that beats it

Wow no flop I'm from Pa . I'm planning on doing the Portney tour. Doing the best review places .

You were 200ft from the statue of the man that a parade is held every year, the only parade for one man from the military, Raritans own John Basilone whose life during World War II was beautifully portrayed on HBO. In THE PACIFIC... Score should've been in the 9 area but you're picky I guess.. Portnoy knew what was up

I was these yesterday and I definitely do NOT agree with Barstool on this one. This is a great pizza, but it is not a 9.4 pie. Its an 8.2 for me personally and the crust put it in the 8s for me. The flavor was too linear for me. The sauce was missing something and I would have loved to see a dusting of Reggiano or Padano to give it an edge as well. I think this place displays ingredients as decoys so people don't know what they actually use. In the back I saw several cans on Stanislaus products including 7/11, Tomato Magic, Full Red and Saporito. The interesting thing is all of these products are thick and course but the sauce in this video is very watery. Also I never heard of a sauce that uses more than 2 tomatoes so having 4 on display is peculiar. I also seen a large stack of General Mills Full Strength flour back there which is a bread flour and typically has less crunch in my experience than All Trumps which is higher protein content, especially at high temperatures like that. I don't know how a bread flour at 12.7% protein can be very crispy much less hard and crunchy like this one at 800 degrees. I doubt they use any of these products I mentioned, but then again why would they waste space displaying this? Maybe to keep people guessing. Anyway it was a great pizza but I definitely like more 3D taste. I appreciate your review brother!

Definitely need to get to this place. Great review, as always!

I live in south Jersey... and I'm a pizza fiend, I need to make this trip and get myself about 4 of these

Sausage and onion and a garlic calzone🔥

@8:15 Rewatching this now as I've gained more experience as a pizza maker, I would guess they use a bread/patent class flour with a lower gluten than All Trumps, which is 14.2%. It's probably something like Full Strength at 12.6%.

Is the sauce 🍅 sweet or tangy 🤔🤔

New Jersey got some solid pizza. I would say superior to the 5 boroughs of NY. Also the old fashioned decor of these places are awesome.

such an original idea mate...

Bro, how do you have less than 3,000 subscribers ? You do an incredible job ! I like your reviews more than some famous pizza reviewers.

Tremendous looking brick oven pizza! What was the biggest difference on this pizza (other than the price) compared to Santillo's? Love the half and half reviews.

You should check out Capezzuto's Pizza if ya go to Philly, eh? l dunno what their pizza is like, but l like the name. They could be related to me & I don't even know it 'cuz we have the same last name; which is very rare in Canada. l think my immediate family are the only people in the whole country with that surname...all 5 of us. Lol!

All about the ancient oven. BTW first look my ears also twitched.

I had it yesterday. It was really good and worth the drive.

I gotta get over there! This looks very similar alnost identical to Ralph's in Nutley

Dang that looks legit.

Anyone here from that 9.4 Portnoy just dished out?

That pizza looks excellent!

I will mark this place down when im in NJ again. If there were no exspensive tolls, it would not be a problem. It does not look good.

I could tell the angels were singing! Would love to check this place out. I like that you felt it was crispy but tender inside, which is my gripe with the famous New Haven places -- especially as they cool they toughen, which I don't enjoy as much (also why I prefer medium high gluten flours). I've come around to sausauge cut like pepperoni (or smaller clumps) as coverage is important to me, but large/r pieces isn't a deal breaker

Today's rewatch. I still can't believe how much sauce they put on that pie, and so little of it seeped through the bottom. I'm usually not wild about the texture of that kind of sauce, but I'm sure the flavor was great. The crust looked to me like a cross between New Haven and New York style, probably closer to New Haven. From what I remember, it seemed to me that DP wasn't long in coming to this place after you reviewed it, and I have to wonder if your review caught the attention of somebody on his staff.

Looks amazing! 👌

Dave hit it outta the park. 9.4!!!!

U beat Portnoy to it congrats!!

Pov your here because barstool and then notice he ate it first before Dave

I would like this pizza because it has a lot of cheese on it!

Portnoy Blew this place up with a 9.4. Good for the owners. Business has tripled.

“Uhh I didn’t listen to anyone how made the pizza and told me about it I don’t remember what they said listen to me”

I can't even get a Pizza Hut delivered out here. Jelouse.

That looks delicious.

One twitched ear, everybody knows the rules.

Excellent Review! I cannot understand why people line up outside of Pepes in New Haven...they really suck...Modern is great, but NOW...HOLY SIMPLE ROAD TRIP!

dude your hilarious and you just might love pizza more than me but I doubt it

1000deg that's insane!

very crunchy

found you from mr here be barr

Proper pies

These ovens are gonna be worth 100k dollars soon if you want to migrate them to your spot

Santillo’s Pizza Better oven - better pizza !!

Best pizza in New Jersey hands down...fathers home town..i grew up eating this pizza..unfortunately now I live in south jersey and pizza is shit

Wish I could have seen the ears twitching must see youtube moment.

Id pay 100 bucks for one of those right now...maybe 200

Fontanini Sausage out of Chicago, most likely

1 bite everybody knows the rule

How that amount of runny sauce did not make it a soggy mess is beyond me... looks like a 10

9.4 brought me here

Not a fan of burnt cheese but this one should change my mind.