Best PIZZA in LA? Pleeeze! (Oxnard, Downey: live, trendy, beach)

[antialphabet]

Originally Posted by BennyPhoenix

It is true that a Rays in LA would do great business. Shakeys, Straw hat, and a lot of garbage pizza places here do great business. For some reason a pizza place doesn't have to make good pizza to succeed.

It's pretty hard to make pizza that isn't edible.

[BennyPhoenix]

Originally Posted by antialphabet

It's pretty hard to make pizza that isn't edible.

I've been to a few places that succeeded.
I went to a place where the crust tasted liked wonder bread.
It's really not difficult to make a good pizza(not a great pizza), but too many places manage to make bad pizza.

[wehotex]

Originally Posted by yogaroots

Been here for a year from the East Coast and haven't found anything that even comes close to good pizza here. Please list some of your favs and where they are located. I've been to Dino's, Prizzi, North End, and Mr.K's....

jacopo's of course

[BennyPhoenix]

Originally Posted by wehotex

jacopo's of course

I thought they closed?
The location in Beverly Hills on Beverly drive is gone.

[ExPit]

There's a place in Van Nuys on Oxnard that is supposed to be the oldest pizza shop in LA called Barone's. This place was in Toluca Lake and Sherman Oaks for years. It's not New York pizza, not even pizzeria pizza, it's more like homemade pizza that somehow makes it.

[KnoxTown]

Originally Posted by antialphabet

It's pretty hard to make pizza that isn't edible.

Not for Joe Peep's New York Pizza in Valley Village.

[BennyPhoenix]

Originally Posted by KnoxTown

Not for Joe Peep's New York Pizza in Valley Village.

I'll send my dog over; he'll eat anything.

[happ]

Originally Posted by nickdahammer

Great article in the L.A. Times. Nice to see our Highland Park fave, Follieros get some cred for a change. We've been going here for years. NY style? New Haven? I'm kinda sick of the comparisons. It's a good tasting pie, period. Thanks for linking, one.

I notice that Folliero's Pizza\ Highland Pk is often mentioned as a good place for New York-style pizza. It has been many years since I ate there but can't figure out why it is so popular. Good, yes but not great, in my opinion.

[nickdahammer]

PBergen- I have read for years that the best pizza in the world comes from New Haven. In fact, one of my first jobs in So Cal was working in a pizza joint, and one of the cooks came from New Haven. Over the years, his endorsement was confirmed by many of my friends. When I was a kid, my parents, having arrived from Boston and settled in So Cal, took me to Original Pizza in Newport Beach. The place is still there and makes a great, thin, cheese pizza. The original owner is from Ukraine, and his son runs the place now.

[nickdahammer]

I learned from my early gig working at a pizzeria that you MUST make the cook BURN the pizza if you want it edible. And what they take as 'burnt' is perfect for me: brown on the bottom, not like toasty (although that sometimes works) but firm. There is nothing worse than nawing on uncooked dough, which is what most places present you. I tell the Folliero's cook (as I do with anyplace) that I want the thing well-done. Always improves the pie.

There is a place around the corner from my place called Fidel's Pizza, which gets rave reviews as well from the locals, though I have yet to try it.

Originally Posted by happ

I notice that Folliero's Pizza\ Highland Pk is often mentioned as a good place for New York-style pizza. It has been many years since I ate there but can't figure out why it is so popular. Good, yes but not great, in my opinion.