Benjy’s Kosher Pizza Dairy Restaurant & Sushi Bar

Came back to the neighborhood 10 years later.
Worst place for kosher pizza
Old and dry
Using electric toaster to heat up the slices
Used microwave to heat up falafel
Services sucks.
Sucks.

I love this pizza place– it’s got great food for great prices. It’s pretty spacey too. I enjoy the guys behind the counter– always keeping you on your toes. The atmosphere they create is great. My favorite dish is their spinach roll (not sushi). Would seriously recommend trying this parlor out!

This place by far has the worst pizza I’ve ever eaten since I was a kid. Service is so bad they practically have kids running the place

I cannot express enough my disappointment in the service at Benjy’s. I live just 2 blocks away and visit occasionally when I want some (admittedly) tasty kosher food, but each time I go I am surprised at how rude and unfriendly their staff is. They show a complete and total lack of motivation to work or provide any form of customer service whatsoever, and it makes going there much less enjoyable.
If Benjy’s can improve their service, then they could be a highlight of the Kosher Dairy scene in Kew Gardens Hills. But until then, the service far outweighs the taste.

They used to have gross pizza now the pizza is impeccable!!! I love their pizza especially compared to shimons pizza.

All around decent. Doesnt excel at anything, but, then again, nothing is bad either. Just unremarkable

Went here on a Saturday night around 11pm.
First, let me say this place was PACKED to the guilds. This included a ton of children. Don’t these kids have bed times?
It was hard to find a table but luckily we got one.
We ordered a slice of pizza each, an order of fries, and a milk shake. Personally, I did like the pizza, which is why this place is getting two stars instead of one. It wasn’t the best but it was good enough. The fries on the other hand were not fried well and just rather blah.
My big thing was really the milkshake. We waited over 20 minutes for the milkshake & when it finally came it was totally melted — as if it had been sitting back there for a good 20 minutes. I think they were just too overwhelmed with the crowd and that made their quality lack. They basically just forgot my milkshake was back there no matter how long my husband or I were standing there asking about it.
Needless to say, we likely won’t go back, but if you have kids this place is probably a good bet.

french fries pizza. GENIUS! seriously though… french fries on top of a slice of pizza. it is so good! so is all their pizza! unique ideas, such as eggplant pizza, spicy pizza, falafel pizza, etc. very friendly, and large comfortable seating area. reasonable prices. it’s all good! very much worth the trip out there, especially if u include going to max & mina’s ice cream shop for desert, which is just a few blocks down.

During a recent trip out to Queen my fiancée and I decided to hit up Benjy’s for some kosher food before heading home. She wanted pizza, and we decided to try this place, and I definitely was disappointed.
There were a ton of customer standing up by the counter in no particular order so it was hard to tell where we needed to go in order to place an order. Once we finally got someone’s attention we placed our order, in a manor that seemed to be very confusing. The guy was taking our order and writing stuff down while talking to other employees, no idea how he got it right (except for the fact that it wasn’t complicated).
Right after we placed our order I heard someone else order spicy fries, which I hadn’t seen on the menu and they sold me it was an extra 25 cents. No problem, I took a single out of my wallet and they just kept saying «25 cents» even though I told them i didnt have any coins. Finally they gave up and just handed me the fries.
The food was pretty good, but the service was just horrible. I definitely will try somewhere else next time I am in the area.

My elementary school didn’t have a cafeteria that provided food. It was bagged lunch every day (unless you were lucky and had a super-​pimp Ghostbusters Lunchbox. Then it was a lunchbox lunch every day. But it’s cool, cuz you get to look at Slimer while you’re eating your bologna sandwich. But I digress…), unless of course, it was Wednesday. Oh Wednesday. It was every kid at school’s favorite day, because baby, it was PIZZA DAY!
The school shipped in what seemed like hundreds of pies from Benjy’s Kosher Pizza, and the little kids would be issued out their pizza cards which indicated how many slices they had prepaid for, and whether or not they get a Juicy Juice juice box.
Oh, and you better believe that once kids got older, forging the numbers on your pizza card became a way of life for certain kids. Does an 11 year old really need 3 slices of pizza? I guess so… the clearly sharpied number says so.
When I say that Benjy’s was directly responsible for cultivating my love of Pizza, I want you to take that seriously. Because it makes what I’m about to say all the more heartbreaking. (What can I say? I take my pizza seriously.) Benjy’s provided a bright spot in every week that my friends and I couldn’t help but look forward to. It was pizza day! Hooray for pizza day! Of course, they also provided one of the worst slices of pizza in New York, but that didn’t really set in for a long time.
Flash forward to a bit over a year ago, when my sister and I decided to venture out to Benjy’s to see what it actually tasted like. One bight, and memories began flooding back. The tiny size of our lunchroom. My friends putting gummies and chips on their pizza, since those were the only toppings available. The sheer youthful exuberance of eating pizza. This pizza tasted exactly the same, years later.
It was my second bight that really drove home the point that this pizza is near-​inedible. I can’t lie and say I wasn’t a little heartbroken. Where there tears? Maybe.
Also worthy of note in an already too long review… You see how this place is billed as a Pizza and Falafel joint? Well, I can’t comment on their straight up Falafel, but when I went I was confronted with a monstrosity that I just HAD to try.
Falafel pizza.
It was so gross looking, it HAD to be good, right? Wrong. It was worse than it looked, and pretty much inedible. If I thought their regular pizza was bad, the sicilian-​esque slice that they put the falafel on worse. Couple in some dried out, turd looking falafel, and well, clearly you have something that will divert attention from your abysmal regular slice.
Of course, the key line of the whole experience belonged to my sister, who looked at me and said something to the effect of: «Shawn, what did you expect? Their pizza always sucked. Even back in school.»
I guess they always did. But I was just always too happy it was pizza day to notice. An extra star goes out for sheer nostalgia –because nowadays, it’s really hard to come by gummies and pringles pizza.