Entries tagged with 'California'
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'Pizza Hacker' and His Amazing Franken-Weber
I've been sleeping on this story for a while, and for that I must apologize to you, dear reader, and to the Pizza Hacker, a pizza street vendor who I've known about for a couple months but haven't yet blogged about. The Pizza Hacker, based in San Francisco, uses a modified 22.5-inch Weber kettle grill that he's fitted with fire bricks. To mimic a traditional pizza oven, whose shape is ideal for cooking a pizza, he used the original lid to mold an oven dome from refractory cement and perlite. Pizza Hacker shows up at various locations throughout SF...L.A.: The SliceTruck
[Photographs: Slice Truck] While pizza from a truck predates the current food-truck craze, the type of pizza you'd most often see come from a kitchen on wheels seemed to be the Sicilian slices. In L.A., a city not really known for pizza, the new SliceTruck mobile vendor looks like it's turning out some thin, thin pizzas I'd eat in a flash. I mean, look at that pepperoni pie up there. If seeing is believing, call me Mickey Dolenz. The SliceTruck roams the streets of L.A. As is de rigueur with street-fooders these days, use Twitter to follow their schedule...Oakland, Calif.: Boot and Shoe Service Is Charlie Hallowell's Follow-up to Pizzaiolo
View Larger Map Boot and Shoe Service is maybe not the most appetizing name for a second location, but given who's behind it I'm sure it'll turn out pizza that's far from tough and leathery. It's the long-awaited follow-up to Charlie Hallowell's Neapolitan-style-slingin' Pizzaiolo. From the San Francisco Chronicle: The narrow dining room, lined by an exposed-brick wall, faces the kitchen where cooks turn out pizzas in the Pizzaiolo style - thin, crisp and topped with artisanal and seasonal ingredients such as wild nettles, local chanterelles and Monterey Bay squid and house-made sausage. Open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday. Boot...NY & C(hicago) Pizza: Fugheddaboutit!
[Photographs: L.A. Pizza Maven] I love pizza! Everyone reading this site loves pizza (I hope). The very thought of a 14- to 18-inch round, properly baked crust covered with a fresh, spicy sauce and a fresh, creamy mozzarella (and perhaps some crumbled fennel sausage) triggers a salivary response worthy of one of Pavlov's dogs. So the recent opening of a new high-concept pizzeria here in Santa Monica, California, set me percolating and salivating with anticipation. The name, NY & C (as in New York & Chicago), belies the concept. The Big Apple and the Windy City, competitive in everything...Openings: Howie's Artisan Pizza, Palo Alto, California
[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...Gialina: San Francisco Food Critic Michael Bauer's Favorite Pizzeria
[Photograph: Adam Kuban] This is from last week, but if you're not plugged in to the SF pizza scene, you may have missed it. San Francisco Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer officially anoints Pizzeria Gialina his favorite pizza place in the City by the Bay: What sets Gialina pizza apart is the handmade crust, with puffy edges that are darkened but not blistered and a delicately chewy texture - it's nearly cracker-crisp on the outside, giving way to that elusive tender breadiness. The secret, according to Ardiana, is a low yeast-to-flour ratio and a dough that is wetter than...Pizza Madness 2009: Los Angeles — Pizzeria Mozza and Antica Pizzeria
From the Slice inbox: "Waiting for your review of Mozza and Antica. Please get to it soon. Thanks. —Pizzafreak" OK. Here you go, Pizzafreak. My blathering about "Pizza Madness 2009" continues ... —The Mgmt. [Photographs: Adam Kuban] Until I touched down at LAX on Thursday, October 29, most of my knowledge of Los Angeles came from CHiPs, The Rockford Files, the Terminator franchise, and The Closer. I had a feeling I'd be in for a shock. It came pretty early. On the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and North Crescent (straight-up 90210 territory), I saw both a Bentley Continental ragtop...Pizza Madness 2009: I Left My Heartburn in San Francisco
And my documentation of Pizza Madness 2009 continues. Here, I'm just going to roll up my San Francisco leg into one post, since A) I had trouble getting photos in some of these darkened joints and B) this is where the Neapolitan pies really started to blur together. —The Mgmt. View Pizza Madness 2009, San Francisco Leg in a larger map As I said in an earlier post documenting "Pizza Madness 2009," I knew Seattle and San Francisco were going to kick my pizza-eating ass. I was well-prepared for San Francisco going in, since I've now visited the city a...Dear Slice: 'You Missed the Best in Bay Area Pizza'
I am a transplanted New Yorker in California, and there is a place in the Bay Area, Napoli Pizza in Vallejo, that makes out-of-this-world pizza. I dare say it's even better than what is found in NYC these days. I am surprised this establishment is not mentioned on your blog while several others in the Bay Area are. This is easily among the best places I have ever eaten, and they do not sell slices at all.Unlike some NYC establishments like Di Fara, which are nothing more than overrated tourist traps, this establishment is the real deal. The only other...Slice is part of the Foodblog Ad Network. To advertise on this site or across a network of food-related weblogs, click here.
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