[Photographs: Stephanie Lucianovic/Bay Area Bites] When I saw the photo of this pie from Howie's Artisan Pizza (Palo Alto, California) on KQED's Bay Area Bites blog, it immediately reminded me of Emilia's Pizzeria across the San Francisco Bay to the north in Berkeley. And also of Apizza Scholls in Portland, Oregon. Then I saw that author Stephanie Lucianovic was thinking along the same lines as she made the Scholls reference in her post. Lucianovic gives the pizza at Howie's Artisan a thumbs up, even despite the fact that she and her family did take-out and a quick home reheat... More

Bay Area Bites In San Francisco, Stephanie Im of Bay Area Bites checks in with a review of newcomer Pizza Nostra in Potrero Hill: The standout of the night that floored us and left us with that lusty, satiated, glow in our eyes was the Cannibal pizza. Topped with tomato, mozzarella, chunks of full-flavored ground beef, oregano...and crowned with a single egg cracked on top, baked to soft perfection so that the golden yolk spilled out in a lava of velvety richness. Brilliant. Yes. More please.This hussy of a pizza (and I mean that in the most complimentary way)... More