To successfully make pizza, one must toss the proper ingredients into a concrete mixer, wait for the mixture to harden, and then drop in a few sticks of dynamite to blast slices from the drum walls. Today’s deal leaves delicate pie creation to the professionals: for $10, you get $20 worth of pizza and drinks at Ignazio's Pizza on Water Street, right under the Brooklyn Bridge.

Operated by Brooklyn native and culinary strategist Louis Termini, Ignazio's boasts a varied menu of fine gourmet pizza. Customers can take cover under the overpass and chew on slices of pineapple and ham pizza ($25+) or Ignazio's specialty, The Pizza, which makes a six-barreled salute through a careful selection of fresh mozzarella, Italian plum tomatoes, pecorino romano, basil, oregano, and olive oil ($16+). For dessert, dine on tortoni, an almond ice cream escalated by a toasted-nut topping ($4). Beverages in the form of beer, red and white wine, GuS soda, and sparkling water are available to ease the eats down. Because Ignazio's maintains a universal cash-only policy, gracious guests can freely show off and dispense all 51 of the storied state quarters.

Reviews

Ignazio's was featured in Time Out New York. Yelpers are polarized on service and décor but praise the pizza. Seventy-nine percent of Urbanspooners recommend it.

• The ingredients were fresh, the dough was perfectly crisped, and the cheese was really flavorful. – Kelly T., Yelp
• Terrific gourmet, thin crust pizza and a great view of Manhattan. – [Dave Chung, Urbanspoon]