6,867.

That’s the amount, somewhere in a headquarters spreadsheet, of possible topping combinations before you even reach the crust at the world’s largest pizza chain. It’s a triumph of options - endlessly recombined, forever optimised. It’s also how pizza starts to disappear.

Because at some point, more stops meaning better; it starts to mean nothing at all. When a pizza can be anything, it stops being something. What was once a dish with memory, place, and identity begins to dissolve into a set of interchangeable parts -toppings without theme, combinations without conviction and ultimately?

A pizza without point.

Welcome to Galaxy Slice Shop.

This place feels less like a restaurant and more like a small gravitational field, pulling you in with heat, noise, and a kind of deliberate intensity that most modern food places have forgotten. Ashwin Jain, the innovative founder, taps his global network to fuse New York–style slices with Indian tastes - and, best of all, brings his own subtle mastery to every pie, powered by a mind constantly sparking with new ideas, concepts, and flavours.

If endless choice has made pizza abstract, Delhi’s hottest new pizza location pulls it violently back into the physical world. So we went past the counter and into where the magic happens: sitting in on dough prep, asking annoying questions about cheese, ovens, timing, and watching these decisions get made in real time - just to see whether this version of pizza actually holds up under interrogation.

But the real surprise wasn’t the dough, or the sauce, or the oven that looked like it could power a small neighbourhood. It was the mood. Galaxy Slice Shop doesn’t feel like a place chasing hype; it feels almost like a place mid‑argument with the universe. Every station has its own weather system - steam rising from a pot, cold air spilling from a fridge, the dry warmth of flour settling on forearms (more on this later). This kitchen isn’t tidy; it’s alive.

And in that aliveness, you start to understand what’s actually being protected here. Not tradition - that doesn’t quite cover it. What’s being protected is attention. The kind that can’t survive in a world of infinite scroll and infinite toppings. The kind that requires someone to stand over a bench and decide, with their actual hands, whether the pie is ready or not.

And that’s when the place starts to make sense. Galaxy isn’t trying to be the antidote to choice. It’s trying to be the antidote to indifference. To the idea that pizza is nothing but a blank canvas waiting for your whims. Here, pizza has a point of view. A shape. A temperature.

A limit.

In a city where everything is available all the time, Galaxy Slice Shop is doing something almost radical: making less, but meaning it more.

So, concept-wise, Galaxy Pizza checks all the boxes - and creates new ones. But that means nothing if their methods aren’t up to the same standards.

THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS @ Galaxy Slice Shop

“New York Pizza,” a back-of-house employee named Usha tells us whilst preparing her next slices, “is a lot harder to make than it seems.”

According to Galaxy Slice Shop’s manager, Rajeev, the making of a Galaxy Slice consists of six stunningly complex steps.

First, the dough - which meant talking to Ashwin Jain himself, a fizzing wire of enthusiasm. This part of the pizza? It’s his whole thesis.

“Everyone knows - if the crust doesn’t make you feel something, the slice is already lost.”

- Ahrin Jain, Executive Reporter and Interviewer for the Is Pizza Real? article on NTS NEWS.

Grinning whilst he says it, he proudly proclaims that Galaxy has found a near-perfect dough balance. “After it has been mixed and prepared,” Mr. Jain tells us, “it is fermented for multiple days to allow for a depth in flavour […] and the perfect texture.”

NTS NEWS gained exclusive access to Galaxy’s ‘cold room’ facility to see for ourselves - and the level of control in there bordered on obsessive.

“Every single box is labelled, with manufacturing dates, when to use dates and every other specific you could imagine,” Mr. Jain explains as I view the giant stacks of perfectly organized dough. “This is the backbone of our entire operation at Galaxy,” he later tells me. And I am in full agreement with him - because everyone knows, if the crust doesn’t make you feel something, the slice is already lost.

STEP 2 - The Sauce. At the back of the kitchen, one employee quietly works through Galaxy’s marinara routine, measuring, stirring, and tasting with a focus that makes the whole process feel almost ceremonial. I didn’t ask any questions about the sauce - I felt no need to. Instead, I just watched - because the quiet intensity, the surgical precision, and the steadfast focus told me more than words ever could.

“The quiet intensity, the surgical precision, and the steadfast focus told me more than words ever could.”

But flavour is the final judge - find out in the Taste Test section to see if the sauce holds up.

Prior to opening Galaxy Slice Shop, (and its sister business, Galaxy Pizza, offering traditional thin-crust pizza), the founder Mr. Jain researched, tried, experimented with crusts and cheeses before launching his first pizza chain, Insta Pizza, where he sold approximately 5 million pizzas (the chain has since closed down). According to his parents - Mr. Arun Jain and Ms. Madhu Jain - it was “all about the cheese” in a good pizza, and Mr. Jain spent years tweaking and testing different varieties. A few days later, he pulls me over to his bookshelf - a chaotic, overflowing shrine of pizza dictionaries, cheese‑pairing manuals, and what felt like every serious text ever written on the subject.

So yes - this man is obsessed with cheese.

When I asked how he approached the Galaxy Slice formula, he told me, “Insta Pizza was what I thought the public liked. Galaxy is the kind of pizza I like.” And for him, that translates into a full cheese symphony — mozzarella, burrata, ricotta, Parmesan — a lineup that just keeps going.

Could it all be a gimmick? Absolutely. It’s up to the Taste Test to decide - coming up later in the article.

The assembly line at Galaxy moves with the focus of a film set between takes — every hand knowing exactly where to land next. Dough is stretched, sauce swept across in smooth, confident motions, and the cheese falls like it’s been rehearsed. Just before the pie heads into the heat, the crust gets a slow brush of olive oil, catching the light for a moment before disappearing into the oven. It’s a small gesture that gives the whole scene its quiet cinematic weight.

But NTS NEWS wanted to go deeper, to the level of pizza experts. So we asked the in-house expert - Usha. Usha is the employee at Galaxy Slice Shop that is an expert in meticulous assembly. She tells me, “everything has an […] order. First, the dough is rolled, then sauce is added, then cheese,” before it’s time for the oven.

The oven hums, the heat swells, and for a second the whole kitchen seems to pause, holding the moment just before the reveal.

Everything feels suspended.

…and now it’s time for the Taste Test.

The moment we’ve all been waiting for.

THE TASTE TEST

#1 - PLAIN CHEESE SLICE

For me, the test is absolute — a pizza shop lives or dies by its plain cheese slice. Galaxy Slice Shop, I’m happy to report, is vibrantly alive.

Galaxy’s plain cheese slice hits with a kind of immediate, satisfying clarity — the molten mozzarella stretching in clean ribbons, the tomato sauce bright and steady underneath, and the crust carrying that light olive‑oil sheen that gives every bite a gentle snap. It’s simple, but it lands with real intention, the kind of slice that makes you nod before you even realise you’re doing it. It’s proof that basics done well can still thrill. 9.2 / 10

#2 - GALAXY MARGHERITA

The Galaxy Margherita feels like the slice every other slice wishes it could be. The mozzarella melts into this flawless, glossy layer that seems to glow on its own, and the black pepper drifts across the top like it knows exactly what it’s doing - adding warmth, depth, and just the right amount of attitude. Then the Parmesan hits, bright and salty, tying everything together in a way that feels almost unfair to every other pizza out there. Each bite is soft, sharp, warm, and alive all at once, the kind of flavour that makes the whole room fade out for a second. It’s the slice that turns a quiet moment into a memory.

110% my favourite slice of the day. Period. 10/10

#3 - THE BURRATA SLICE

“Indulgence, without apology,” one customer says as they wolf down two more. The perfect description of the Galaxy Burrata Slice. The moment it hits your mouth, that cool, creamy dome starts to soften into the heat of the mozzarella beneath it, turning the whole slice into this slow‑melting, luxurious wave of richness…

However, not everything at Galaxy Slice Shop is perfect - but nobody minds at all, because that’s what adds on to the theme even more. Yes, I found the burrata slice just a bit overly soggy and a tad less crispy than it should’ve been - but that’s because nothing in the world is perfect, including pizza. 8.4/10

#4 - GALAXY GARLIC BREAD

I’m about to share a very unpopular opinion here — the garlic bread was not even close to my favourite item on the menu, and honestly, it didn’t even come close to competing with the stars of the night. The flavour was fine, the base was a shade too burnt, the texture was a little too soft, everything was… fine — but when everything else at Galaxy is firing on all cylinders, “fine” just doesn’t stand a chance. It’s the one thing that didn’t quite keep up.

However, I know for a fact that this paragraph will be disagreed with a hundred times over. One customer, who looked like they had stars in their eyes, proclaimed it “the best item [Galaxy] has ever produced” and others looking like they were jumping on clouds whilst they indulged. So my advice is to try it, evaluate it and see for yourself which side of the debate you belong on.

Galaxy Slice Shop is full of hidden gems, and not all of them fit neatly into the rest of the article — but leaving them out would feel like ignoring half its personality. But it would be such a shame to just ignore these, so here are a few of them, including a mischievous hiding place, a bookshelf of sci-fi books and even two secrets only for those in the know.

1. AND WE’RE HERE……..ARE WE?

   

   Galaxy Slice Shop is a tiny nook on the 2nd floor of a building in what feels like the middle of nowhere, and most people spend a comically long stretch wandering around before they finally spot its craftily hidden entrance. Best of all, the secrecy isn’t just for the vibe — it’s practical, too, keeping rent lower so more of the money can go straight into the food that actually matters instead of rent. And the team leans into the whole ‘secret lair” energy with a grin; at the end of your meal, they’ll hand you a pair of mini binoculars “so you can find the sign better next time,” turning the whole experience into an inside joke you get to take home. Genius.

2. THE BOOKSHELF

   When I sat down with the founder for lunch at Galaxy Slice Shop, I asked him what new innovations were on the horizon, expecting maybe a new topping or a seasonal slice. Instead, he lit up and started talking about books. Earlier, he’d mentioned his own personal bookshelf at home — a wall of dog‑eared volumes on the craft, science, and obsession of making great pizza. But what he really wanted to build next wasn’t another recipe; it was a communal sci‑fi library right inside the shop. A place where “nerdy people like [him]self” could swap stories, trade paperbacks, and have a reason to keep coming back beyond the food. It wasn’t just an idea — it felt like a window into how he sees Galaxy: not just a slice shop, but a tiny universe of its own. Genius.

3. SECRET MENU ITEM + SECRET HAT (EXCLUSIVE! ONLY FOR NTS NEWS SUBSCRIBERS)

   

   The Nutella pizza is Galaxy’s most whispered‑about secret — the kind of off‑menu item you only learn about if someone trusts you enough to mention it. And what completely floored me is that it’s finally not just Nutella smeared onto overbaked dough like every other forgettable dessert pie out there. This one actually has intention behind it. There’s a barely‑there layer of cinnamon baked into the base, subtle enough that you almost miss it, but powerful enough to completely reframe what a Nutella pizza can be. Even the founder admitted he “doesn’t like Nutella pizza,” and yet he still engineered a version so balanced, so warm, so quietly clever that no one at my table — not even the health‑obsessed holdouts - could pretend they weren’t impressed. So if you ever do visit the Slice Shop, do not miss one of these - an exclusive item that’s exclusive for a reason.

4. The next hidden treasure is the hat — a sharply designed, quietly flex‑worthy piece of Galaxy merch that isn’t sold, advertised, or even mentioned unless you’re truly in the inner circle (yes, that includes NTS NEWS subscribers). It’s the kind of item that instantly tells people you didn’t just visit Galaxy Slice Shop — you understood it. I can’t convince you yet that you’ll want one; that part only happens after you try the pizza and suddenly realise you’ve been living your life in the dark.

FINAL WORDS - In the end, Galaxy Slice Shop isn’t just a restaurant; it’s the answer to the very first question that started this whole journey: Is Pizza Real? - real in the sense of magic, discovery, and the kind of joy that sneaks up on you. Tucked away on a hidden second floor, filled with sci‑fi books, secret menu items, inside jokes, and a founder who treats pizza like both a science and a story, Galaxy proves that food can still surprise you. It can still feel new. It can still make you look up from your plate and laugh because you didn’t expect it to be this good. And once you find it, you realise the answer is yes - pizza is real, and it’s right here.

THANK YOU FOR READING! Your support helps myself, a young 13-year-old journalist with a dream, to report on interesting and captivating topics like this one.

TRY GALAXY!

GALAXY SLICE SHOP 🍕

📍 1st Floor, Building No. 8 Community Centre, Basant Lok, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, Delhi 110057, India

A NOTE ON RESEARCH, INTERVIEWS AND SOURCES - All quotes that have been included within this article have been taken from real interviews that the NTS NEWS reporting team has conducted in-person with various Galaxy Slice Shop employees, pizza enthusiasts and other connected people. Some quotes throughout the article may have been edited for clarity, readibility and general lucidity. The entirety of interviews within these articles were conducted in India, meaning we used transcription technology to translate recorded interviews into English. Please be advised that there may be small mistakes throughout quotes, which is an unavoidable consequence of multi-lingual communication. We have added in block parentheses [ ] with words to help further convey meaning. We have thoroughly fact-checked each and every element of this article, but if you believe we should make a correction, please reach out to us via ntsnews@substack.com.

A NOTE ON INDEPENDENT REPORTING - This article was not sponsored, paid-for or influenced by Galaxy Pizza, Ashwin Jain or any other entity. Every part of journalism and reporting within this article is entirely independent. However, without the help and co-operation of Galaxy Slice Shop and its founder, Ashwin Jain, this article would not have been possible.

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