This local joint right behind San Marco brought pizza to Venice in 1960, and has been slinging generous thin-crust pies with creative toppings ever since.

The thin-crust pie may be the best food in Marfa.

B Map Bonding experiences begin with a shared thin-crust pie at Pauline's.

It cooks the pizza evenly, which is all-important in a thin-crust pie.

Gone from the menu, too, are the rectangular pizzas, replaced by round 10-inch thin-crust pies.

It now serves more than 10,000 thin-crust pies a week.

This creates a more tomato-intensive taste for the thin-crust pie.

For old-fashioned thin-crust pies, we like Spirito's (714 Third Ave., Elizabeth), where they also make a great garlic salad dressing.

Another family-owned pizza place, Abitino's, arrives at the end of January, and in the meantime, Joe's fans can still find the famous thin-crust pies three doors down on Carmine.

In addition to the fine, thin-crust pies, there's a good selection of wine and other traditional Italian dishes.