L'Industrie

Sometimes, when restaurants try to recreate their magic in a new location, it feels forced. This isn’t true for L’Industrie’s second outpost, which captures everything we love about the Williamsburg pizzeria with deeply flavored, long-fermented sourdough slices, and expands on it in a larger space in the West Village. It’s the Michael Corleone to the original’s Sonny—a slightly more mature younger brother that trades in the sleeveless block party attire for dark wood paneling, an ornamental tin ceiling, and exposed brick. But the mismatched lettering on the menu board, the Ferrari posters, and giant basil leaves remind you that despite the new look, their main priority, as always, is serving one of the city’s best slices on a greasy paper plate. Followed by some seasonal soft-serve in a paper cup.

photo credit: Will Hartman