I’d never really considered the possibility that a pizza oven could have personality, until I met Bruno. The white and black-tiled dome, crafted in Naples by artisan Stefano Ferrara, is the star attraction at Pizzeria Bruno in San Diego’s North Park and yields some of...
On our drive through Baja backcountry between La Paz and Cabo, we stopped in El Triunfo, a dusty, desolate mining town that could easily double as the setting for a Wild West gunfight, or possibly a zombie apocalypse. Instead, Northern California native Marcus Spahr treated...
As soon as we discovered that Buffalo Bar-B-Q chef-owner Carlos Valdez had a pizzeria, and that he employs the same woods – mesquite and mauto – that feed the fabulous grill at his La Paz flagship, we had to go. Al Forno Pizzeria is dinner-only,...
Miami experienced some growing pains during our millennium’s first decade, with very few compelling dining options beyond Latin or seafood. That changed with the advent of neighborhoods that seemed to sprout up overnight, like Midtown, plus New York restaurant carpetbaggers who opened mirror images along...
Mountain biking. That’s the difference between having the best pizza on the West Coast in my backyard or, as it stands, 400 miles away. About two years ago, pizzaiolo Anthony Mangieri was at Silver Lake’s Sunset Junction, and we ran into each other at Intelligentsia....
Even though we just finished consuming almost every possible pig part at All-Star Cochon and followed that up with The Cosmpolitan‘s official poolside after party, it was still impossible to resist a late night stop at the nameless, signless pizzeria on the third floor of...