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Prime Pizza
Prime Pizza built its reputation around a specific, unglamorous format: large, foldable, New York-style slices and pies sold out of a casual, counter-service setup, a genuine departure from the chef-driven, whole-pie-only pizzerias that dominate much of Los Angeles's more talked-about pizza scene. The Fairfax location has become the brand's flagship as the concept has grown into a genuine regional mini-chain. The dough is proofed for a proper crisp-yet-foldable New York-style crust, and the toppings menu leans toward reliable classics rather than chef-driven novelty — pepperoni, mushroom, a solid plain cheese slice — built for speed and consistency rather than a tasting-menu approach to pizza. Late hours are part of the appeal as much as the pizza itself, catering to a crowd that wants a real slice well after most kitchens in the city have closed. That late-night, by-the-slice format filled a genuine gap in a city where good New York-style pizza, available past a normal dinner hour, was historically harder to find than it should have been given the size and diversity of the local food scene. Expanding to multiple Los Angeles-area neighborhoods while keeping prices and format consistent — real by-the-slice and whole-pie counter service, not a scaled-down sit-down menu — has let Prime Pizza build a loyal following among people who want a fast, reliable New York-style slice rather than a reservation-required pizza experience. No host stand, no wait list — just walk up, fold, and eat.
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Casa Bianca Pizza Pie
Sam Martorana had a real pizza pedigree by the time he relocated to Los Angeles from Chicago in the mid-1950s — his father ran a grocery business, and Sam himself had worked a stint at Tony's Pizza back home. He and his wife Jennie, along with Sam's brother Joe, opened Casa Bianca in January 1955, shortly after arriving with three young children in tow, and built the restaurant's entire identity around scratch-made, family-recipe pizza rather than any single gimmick. The sausage pizza is the dish most closely identified with the restaurant: sweetly spiced homemade sausage studded with roasted garlic, piled generously with mozzarella over a crust that's been described as chewy yet crisp, thin but substantial enough to carry real developed wheat flavor rather than just functioning as a base for toppings. The restaurant has stayed a genuine family operation for seven decades — Sam and Jennie's son Ned and daughter Andrea joined the business as it grew, and even in the restaurant's later years, Jennie remained involved in kitchen supervision while Sam personally oversaw the sausage production that gives the signature pizza its specific flavor. Seventy years in the same Eagle Rock storefront, run continuously by the same family, with the same made-from-scratch sausage recipe Sam brought west from Chicago in the 1950s, is a rare thing for any Los Angeles restaurant to sustain — long lines and a no-frills dining room have stayed part of the experience the entire time, treated as a feature rather than something to modernize away. Sam still oversees the sausage; that isn't nostalgia marketing, it's simply how the kitchen has always run.
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