Welcome to the second installment of our guide to Ivy pizza (we’ve already done this with sandwiches and drinks). In our first installment, we reviewed the pizza at Harvard. I know, I’m also skeptical Boston has good food. But let’s table that for a moment and focus on today’s post: The Slice at Columbia. Reviewing Columbia’s pizza is complicated by the university’s location. In New York, good pizza, great pizza, abounds. But it’s not to be found in Morningside Heights (try Nino’s in Bay Ridge, or Grimaldis in DUMBO, or anywhere in Bensonhurst). Regardless, there is a pizza hierarchy at the school Law and Order keeps calling Hudson University.

1. Koronets: You may know Koronets as the place with the gigantic slices of pizza. For around $3.00, you get a slice the size of two normal slices. It’s freaking huge. It’s also gooey, greasy, and wonderfully moist. Koronets is great when you’re drunk but it’s a decadent delight when you’re sober. The next time you’re walking on Broadway and wanna grab lunch? Fuck Chipotle. Go to the place with the large pizza slices.

2. Famiglia’s: Decent but overpriced (average one-topping slice will run you $3.25), Famiglia’s offers a wide variety of slices and toppings. If you want a slice of Hawaiian, this is where you go. Famiglia’s is also the option most like a real pizzeria: the decor is closely modeled after that of an authentic pizzeria and the kitchen dishes up hearty favorites like lasagna and baked ziti. In short, Famiglia’s is a good but pricey fake.

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First we brought you some tasty-ass sandwiches. Then we brought you one tasty-ass drink (via WSJ.com). But sometimes you just want to eat pizza. Pizza serves as a flexible blueprint for greatness – like a good sandwich, by altering the basic idea, you can take it in nearly any direction. And you can pick it up by one end and eat it. So three cheers for the ‘zza and IvyGate’s latest (potentially) eight-part series. If you have any suggestions for your favorite local spot and might even want to write a post about it, send us an email at tips@ivygateblog.com.

At Harvard, the usual student haunt for pizza is Pinocchio’s (‘Noch’s), which I find mediocre. I like my food a little more radical. And I dislike their crust. Which is why I drag all my friends to try one of great, nontraditional pies of Harvard Square: the pizzas baked up at Veggie Planet on Palmer St, across the street from Border Cafe and Starbucks.

Drool over more picks with fewer vegetables, practical info, and scant mention of the just-for-crunchies Club Passim within Veggie Planet after the jump.

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