Cucumber Sushi and Salad Bar, Staten Island

For more than 20 years, Scot Cosentino and his culinary team have shared their love of Italian cuisine with guests at Goodfella's Old World Brick Oven Pizza & Pasta, a family-friendly bistro. They now have a second location known as Goodfella's Inferno Brick Oven Pizza, which has limited seating and focuses on takeout and delivery. At both locales, pizzas are made in the Old-World tradition—i.e., cooked in a real wood-fired brick oven as the chefs quote Dickens. The creations include Cosentino’s original vodka pizza and other handmade pies. For these gourmet pizzas, Goodfella's has taken home big prize money from the International Pizza Expo, winning its Pizza Challenge on more than one occasion. The chefs also prepare heaping helpings of Italian pastas and entrees such as eggplant parmigiana and baked ziti.