"Slices" Is A Cut Above
Cuts & Slices Brings Premium and Unque toppings to the iconic NYC Pizza Slice
Sometime last year, when I first heard of a Brooklyn pizzeria called Cuts & Slices serving an oxtail pizza, I scheduled a roundtrip ride the nearly hour-long trip out to it to try a slice for myself. (Visiting hometown NYC from Barbados allowed me the idea of being able to enjoy the best of two culinary worlds.)
Arriving at its original Howard Avenue location, I was met with a long line Cuts & Slices customers that snaked around the corner and then some. Much to my chagrin, I hadn't even made it halfway to entry before my return trip pickup arrived—the scheduled 90 minutes later—to drive me back home. No pizza for me.
I discovered last week that Cuts & Slices had recently opened a Manhattan location down on Houston Street that I figured (hoped) would not offer the same long wait as it was now a year later and its initially booming popular might have abated at least a little.
It indeed had, and the wait was gratefully minimal to both order and to receive my brown stew oxtail slice, steeped heavily with rich, flavorful, shredded tender oxtail.
It was delicious, and more than a meal. Some may scoff at the $12.50 price tag, but anyone who is remotely aware of the price of oxtails and sees how much 8-hour stewed oxtail was housed on each slice would argue fairly that it's sort of a bargain.
Other of the numerous likewise extravagant pizza variations include sweet chili oxtail, curry oxtail, chopped cheese, shrimp & lobster black truffle Alfredo, jerk BBQ salmon, fried salmon, sweet chili chicken, and various iterations within those.
Still, to me, it is a specialty pizza—a tasty one, for sure—that might appeal to me again when I seek a well-executed novelty and happen to be on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
