Glad you enjoyed your visit! Good news is that La Morra Pizzeria staff mentioned to us they would be rotating / adding various Pizza flavors each week throughout this residency, so fingers crossed they bring in the Clam and Calabrese.
Totally cool. I’ll enjoy a good Neapolitan sometimes. What do you think of Settebello? Just want to get a baseline of what you’ve enjoyed so far in LA.
Thanks for the list @robert. Wow, there are so few officially licensed VPN members in So Cal.
@Bookwich I guess based on that list the only VPN Neapolitan Pizza that we’ve tried locally would be Settebello. It’s solid, but it felt skimpy for the toppings.
Same here! Da Michele certainly fits the bill for that as others have mentioned.
Another good Neapolitan place is Provami on Melrose - they were formerly Prova in WeHo. Their menu’s kinda random, and non-pizza stuff is hit or miss, but their Neapolitan pizza is solid.
If anybody is down in the OC many OC posters can certainly vouch for the Neopalitan at Fuoco in Fullerton. Great representation of the style. Soupy in the middle, great chew and flavor in the dough and well proportioned pies. I went to Angelina once and had very good pies but would recommend Fuoco. Angelina has a much more diverse menu with mains, pasta and drink menu if that matters.
Yah that bottom piece / edge looks a bit charred. I wonder if it was them handling a large crowd tonight / more customers? At their original Wednesday Only residency there were far fewer customers / smaller venue. Hopefully just growing pains with that new wood-burning oven and busy-ness.
The Calabrese pie and the other half of that Sausage pie look fine, though, just the bottom 2 pieces.
Yes, the sausage pie was burnt. In retrospect, I should have politely asked them to refire it. Crowd was smaller than last weekend and pies came out much faster.
There was a different member of the team on the pizza oven last night, not Zach like last week. Zach was spreading the dough on the boards. A couple other pizzas had to be refired while we were there (caught by topping/cutter guy before they went out). Perhaps they were trying to get that member a little more experience/practice?
Even burnt, it was still delicious and I scarfed it down.
Ok I’m gonna be a naysayer here and say their pizza is decent but not nearly THAT good…definitely not travel worthy.
I went back at the pop up a few weeks ago and got the 5 cheese. I went this past thursday night at Kettle Black and got the Salsiccia and Bianco. They were tasty, but I will not be driving out there to get this again. Price point is a little high and for some reason the aura of the people there feels stuffy…and PIZZANA is so so so much better and the same price roughly.
It is expensive. It was $50 OTD (out the door) for the Calabrese and Sausage pizza. No drinks.
I think they were $19 each. So $19/6 slices = $3+ per smallish slice.
Bianco e verde was excellent. The ricotta tasted whipped, it was like biting into a cloud. I normally do not like white pizzas but this definitely changed my mind.
We also got cocktails- husband got the blood orange tonic which he said was very refreshing, and I got the cynar spritzer with passionfruit juice & sparkling wine.
2 pizzas and 2 cocktails plus tax and tip was $85 (!!!). A little pricey so I wouldn’t eat this all the time, but if they were here permanently, would go every once in a while.
Restaurant looked pretty full around 8 pm but we were seated almost immediately after ordering and pizza took about 15 minutes to come out. Distance is not an issue for me since they’re less than a 10 minute drive from where I live (or a really leisurely 30 minute walk). Parking in the area always sucks though, so I usually walk/Lyft or sometimes take the bus.