The Best Pizzas In Los Angeles

Maybe Chicago made me a little skeptical of finding the right pizza out here in LA, but in my time here I’ve been able to enjoy the best of the best from New York, Chicago, and even LA’s own pizza style. It’s all here.
Pizzanista
It’s not often that someone would take a car ride out of the city just for a slice, but Pizzanista has them en route. New York styled, each hand-tossed slice holds the perfect amount of cheese. About that cheese — it’s just the right amount, just the right way. Each chew fulfills itself with flavor, the aroma rises, and suddenly NY doesn’t feel so far
Prime Pizza
There’s little unity when discussing the LA pizza but a comfortable assumption is that Prime Pizza is always in the conversation. Mozzarella paves generously, and it goes a distance because this is a huge pizza. Brooklyn pizza understands quality, understands convenience, which is why by the slice is the way to go here. On top of that take on the garlic knots. It’s a complete experience.
Dough Box Pizza & Bread
Dough Box’s pillow-plush name highlights something that sets them apart from all the rest; first and foremost is their love of bread. Restaurants all across LA carry their bakery goods, but we’re here for the pizza — deep dish Chicago. Their crust is cornmeal gold, buttery, and it holds up all that sauce, that cheese, with deep garlic touch. It makes it all the more surprising that Dough Box doesn’t have a set location. It’s call in, pick up, expect the transaction at the car. It may be the first back-alley exchange you’ve ever had, but you’ll do it for the pizza.
Jon & Vinny’s
Italian in one hand, New York in the other. Jon & Vinny’s offers chewy, crispy pizzas with earthy tangs accomplished only through dough that rests for 48 hours. The edges have a puffy air that could suffice on their own as LA’s best breadsticks. Jon & Vinny also serve pastas that are talked as much as their pizza.
Desano Pizza
For how long it’s taken to hear about Desano for how delicious it is, it seems as if they were trying to keep the secret. The first thing that rises up from Desano is the aura. On arrival is a massive parking lot, a brick building, inside — an open space with long spread tables, TV’s playing the game. It’s authentic. It’s low key. Unapologetically Italian pizza is wrought through a row of wood-fire ovens, with ingredients that have to be sailed in to be believed.
Sotto
An imported stove had to be craned out from Italy to allow taste like this on LA soil. Fermented sourdough is cooked at one thousand degrees for less than a minute. Margherita pizzas pull out in a flash, leopard-spotted that comes up airy. All that sauce and cheese can do at molten levels is meld as if a swooped through in brushstroke. That’s what Sotto offers.
800 Degrees
Margherita pizzas, 7$ each. Build your own. Open at 2am. UCLA doesn’t have a better answer to late night muchies than 800 Degrees.
Hollywood Pies
Hollywood Pies started with the parking lot exchange similar to Dough Box, but has since established an inside eatery. It all comes to show that the only thing that has ever mattered about the pizza experience is the pizza. Compared to Lou Malnatis, Hollywood Pies cranks out deceptively Chicago style pizzas made with whole milk mozzarella, Italian sausage, all of which need to be discovered with an appetite and a little time.
Masa of Echo Park
Cheese, tons of garlic, tomatoes that pull it all together. In order to cook a true deep dish, it takes time. Masa of Echo Park’s pizza ideology come from the owner having lived in Chicago, applying what he learned out there here in LA.
Pizzeria Mozza
Pizzeria Mozza always a part of the conversation. Always. In 2006 the restaurant unveiled what has come to be the identity of LA pizza. The crust is pillowy with a crunch that resounds. Soft and chewy in some places, others charred and bubbled. Through this list I’ve stuck to pizza but it would be misguiding to not recommend the butterscotch budino desert that needs to be experienced. Pizzeria Mozza for some is not just the best pizza in LA, but LA’s best pizza, and for a city that has New York and Chicago branding their own names — it’s something.

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