Edible Pizza and/or Chinese Food in Glendale, CA (Alhambra: house, live)

[Praline]

I'm originally from Chicago but I've been in Glendale, CA for three years. I have yet to find good pizza or good Chinese food. There are several wonderful restaurants in Glendale with varied menus, but none of them, including the delivery places, get it quite right when it comes to tasty pizza. I prefer crispy thin crust pizza with the basic toppings of sauce, cheese and sausage (okay, green peppers, and mushrooms when I'm in the mood).

The Chinese restaurants don't serve Hong Sue Chicken, the shrimp and lobster sauce is always that pale, sickly light color (I prefer the rich brown sauce with lots of green onions mixed in), and the rib appetizers are always fatty, greasy and either over or undercooked. I've tried a number of restaurants in my quest for at least a tasty pizza or Chinese food meal and I've been unsuccessful. I'm not trying to be picky, I just would love to sink my teeth into a pizza that doesn't automatically add pepperoni along with unidentifiable sausage, have a chewy doughy crust, pineapple chunks, and is obviously microwaved and cut into fat inedible triangles!

Can anyone help me?

[Praline]

Does anyone have any good restaurants to suggest? Thanks.

[harhar]

I just know the Los Feliz area.

There's Cruzers (nothing special), Crispy Crust (just a bit better than Cruzers), Cheech's (if ordered fresh its pretty good, if not, its horrible) and Lucifers.

I like Lucifers the best so far, they seem the freshest and handmade and really tasty.

There's also Nicky D's in Silverlake but I haven't had them yet.

[zotmeister]

go to the SG valley for Chinese food. You are in LA, how could you not find good Chinese food!

[Praline]

Originally Posted by zotmeister

go to the SG valley for Chinese food. You are in LA, how could you not find good Chinese food!

I'm was stating my experiences so far in Glendale, Ca. I didn't say there were no restaurants that served good Chinese food, I said, so far, I haven't found them and asked for suggestions. Someone on the Food & Drinks Forum mentioned that Alhambra has several good Chinese restaurants but no one has suggested anything in Glendale.

[laviachi]

Given you are from Chicago, there is thin crust Chicago style pizza with real Italian sausage right next to you in Eagle Rock: CasaBianca Pizza (home /index) Other than Casa Bianca, there is very little in the way of good pizza especially in Glendale itself.

[Clnconcpts]

I loved especially their BBQ roast beef sandwich

Georgee's Pizza
720 Foothill Blvd, La Canada Fltrdg, CA 91011
(818) 790-0637
Yahoo! Yellow Pages - Georgee's Pizza

[UB50]

There is a place that serves a delicious thin crust SQUARE pizza in the SFV: Baroni's. They used to be in Toluca Lake and Sherman Oaks but I noticed they had consolidated in one location somewhere else... Maybe Van Nuys? Or it could be Sherman Oaks?

There are tons of great Chinese places in the San Gabriel Valley -- but it sounds like you are looking for some sort of Americanized Chinese food? ("Hong Sue Chicken"?) That might be a lot harder to find.

[CaliJoe]

For Pizza, the wood-oven pizza from Nicky-D's in Silverlake is good.

For chinese, try House of Joy - Off of Pacific, about 1 or 2 blocks north of the 134.

[wvdevindavis]

If you like the thin cripsy crust, there's a place on Melrose called Osteria La Buca. Dunno if they deliver, but I'm sure they do carryout.

As for the best Chinese -- Yang Chow, Chinatown.