Cuts & Slices

Randy McLaren opened this Howard Avenue slice shop in 2018 and built it on toppings no one else was putting on pizza: oxtail, jerk chicken, jerk shrimp, chicken and waffles, black truffle alfredo shrimp. Videos of celebrities eating here have been watched millions of times, and on weekends the street fills with double-parked cars.

The order is the Sweet Chili Oxtail, drawing on McLaren's Trinidadian roots — oxtail marinated and slow-cooked for hours, then laid over a cheesy base on a chewy, almost biscuit-like crust. It has grown to Queens and the Lower East Side, but this is where it started.