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For more than four decades, family-run Greenwich Village establishment The Famous Rays Pizza has served exceptional pizza. Among the most famous of customers was Prince Charles of Wales. His visit to The Famous Rays Pizza triggered the longest takeout on record afterward when a group of piqued Oxford University students ordered 40 pies to be delivered to England. The Famous Rays Pizza now resides in Verona, New Jersey, but still maintains the same recipes and quality pizza for all. Despite the new location, The Famous Rays Pizza continues the same eclectic clientele and has earned national recognition from the Food Network.

The secret of the success of The Famous Rays Pizza is always in the ingredients. The Famous Rays Pizza combines the freshest vine-ripened tomatoes from California with fresh handmade dough and a variety of 100% real cheeses to create the quality pizza that people recognize. Its trademark pie, the Plain Pie Pizza, is the prime example of the Rayist way of making pizza simply because the first pizza that should be done right is the most basic. Consequently, all of The Famous Rays Pizza pies follow this standard, even with unique variations on the familys recipe.

Of course, such variations allow The Famous Rays Pizza to create wonderful new spins on pizza. The Famous Rays Pizza offers its Buffalo Chicken Pizza and Bacon Pizza for the adventurous, and even provides a twist to a comfort food standard with the creamy Mac and Cheese Pie. The Artichoke Spinach Pie won acclaim at national contest with Americas top chefs. For those who enjoy the classics, The Famous Rays Pizza makes its Plain Pie Pizza, as well as the bready Sicilian Pie and the One and Only Grandmas Pie with fresh tomato chunks, basil, and ripe garlic.

The Famous Rays Pizza also offers a variety of sandwiches, pasta, and crust rolls filled with vegetables or meats and mozzarella cheese. Open seven days a week, The Famous Rays Pizza is available for takeout or eat-in, with the exception of deliveries of large orders of five pies or more.

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