Don Antonio NYC.

309 West 50th Street. Don Antonio makes legitimately excellent Neapolitan pizza eight blocks from Times Square. The signature is the montanara, a fried pizza dough topped with smoked buffalo mozzarella, San Marzano tomatoes, and basil. A margherita is about $22.

This is a proper sit-down Italian restaurant with white tablecloths and good wine. It’s the kind of place where you can have a real meal without feeling like you’re at a tourist factory. Reservations recommended, especially on show nights.

The food world of pizza has historically been run by men, but Don Antonio’s Giorgia Caporuscio is looking to change that. Caporuscio has been dubbed the Queen of Neapolitan Pizza and it’s not hard to taste why.

The menu at Don Antonio’s is made up of 45 different pies and a handful of fried pizzas (popular in Naples). Every pizza on the menu can be made gluten-free, so you’ll have a ton of NYC gluten-free pizzas to choose from.

We recently did a taste test which included a gluten-free pizza (Truffle Burrata & Prosciutto), a fried pizza (the Montanara), and another of their signatures (Pistacchio & Salsciccia). Each one was the best and delicious in its own right but the most surprising of all was the gluten-free which could not be distinguished from the regular pies.

A word to the wise, Caporuscio’s pies are a hot commodity and Don Antonio’s doesn’t take reservations, so be prepared for a short wait.