Positioned deep in Dana Level, this collaboration of award-winning chef Chris Decker — plus operators John Enviornment, Donna Baldwin and associate Steve Muller — looks like an Avengers-style pizza creation. With an ethereal, long-fermented dough used of their spherical and sq. pizzas, the toppings are the star right here. Decker and his chef on the bottom, Sergio Balderas, craft superbly browned pies topped with skinny pepperoni cups, creamy stracciatella and roasted greens. The result’s one thing fairly removed from genuine Italian, but additionally very acquainted to Californians used to huge, sauced, well-filled truffles that don't bend like soaked cardboard. They're served in an nearly fully outside house that catches the ocean breeze simply in case, though there's additionally an enclosed eating room upstairs, because the climate might be chilly. With loads of expertise constructing a number of items, it's solely a matter of time earlier than Actually strikes north into extra populated elements of Orange County and even Los Angeles. – Matthew Kang, Editor-in-Chief
