NYC Veggie Restaurants – Viva Pizza

Every time my mom and I visit NYC, we crave a pizza from Viva Pizza. 

We first learned about Viva Pizza from our friends at the Yoga Center in Queens.  They all used to visit Viva Pizza at Broadway and 97^th street to eat their delicious variety of natural pizzas – all made from whole wheat, spelt or corn crusts and natural dairy or soy cheeses.  They are really awesome.

I am traditional and always order a Pizza Margherita on a whole wheat crust.  My mom loves pesto, so she always orders one that includes pesto, sundried tomatoes and spinach.  I usually order a China Cola too – another natural version of a Coke.  It’s really good, and I’ve only seen it at Viva Pizza.

This time around, we also visited Viva Pizza’s restaurant on 2^nd Ave between 12^th and 11^th streets.  This was our first time at this location.  Both are really small pizza joints, but I found the variety at the 2^nd Ave location to be much better.  My mom had trouble deciding… I mean she always does, but this time was even harder.

The pizzas are soooo good, I forgot to take pictures both times we were there.  I had to go by on a later day to photograph the outside at least so I could tell you all about it.  It was 9:30AM and they were still closed…. Thank God, because if not, I would have eaten pizza again for the 3^rd time in less than a week.

But when in NYC, not eating a pizza is a crime…