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Los Angeles’s robust pizza scene didn’t happen overnight. The city’s steady climb began with traditional red sauce joints opened by Italian immigrants, ultimately making way for the uniquely California creations of the ‘80s like the smoked salmon pizza at Spago and everything on the menu at CPK. More recent trends take the best of Neapolitan traditions and combine them with LA’s culinary sensibilities and pristine produce, though there has also been a recent upswing in the prominence of Detroit-style pies and New York-style slices. Here now are just 18 of the many essential pizzeria spots around Los Angeles.

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786 Degrees

Chef Ali Haider has a hit with 786 Degrees, the temp-specific Sun Valley spot for busy, blistered — and completely halal — pizzas. Expect top quality ingredients and a good amount of char from the wood-fired oven, and for anyone looking a bit closer to the heart of LA, Haider also operates Sapori in Pasadena.

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8879 Laurel Canyon Blvd unit # A, Sun Valley, CA 91352

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Ozzy’s Apizza

This New Haven-style specialist is hiding inside an underground sports bar in Glendale. It’s hardly the kind of well-known place to find some of LA’s best pizza, but that’s okay — those in the know DM early for orders of darkly burnished, thin, delicious pies.

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156 S Brand Blvd, Glendale, CA 91204

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Bagel + Slice

This carb-focused Highland Park spot from chef Bradford Kent (Olio, Blaze) has a socially responsible and environmentally conscious bent, using 10 percent regenerative wheat for both the pizza and the bagels. The 16-inch, firm-crusted New York-style pies strike a good balance between sauce and cheese, and with two vegan options (vegan cheese and vegan vodka with mushroom-fennel sausage and red onion), there’s something here for everyone.

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4751 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042

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Pepperoni pizza slice from Bagel+Slice.

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L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele

The famous Eat, Pray, Love pizza is now a staple in Los Angeles, thanks in part to a charming Hollywood patio and these seriously Neapolitan pies, which arrive big, blistery, soft, and ready for fast consumption.

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1534 N McCadden Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90028

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Pizzas from L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele in Hollywood, California — L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele

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DTown Pizzeria

West Hollywood’s DTown Pizzeria is a must for people looking for the most ‘authentic’ Detroit pizza experience. Made by a native Michigander, these hefty pies come with the sauce on top, the stretchy cheese, and all the crusty-cornered deliciousness one could want.

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7326 Santa Monica Blvd #10, West Hollywood, CA 90046

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Pepperoni pizza at Dtown Pizzeria in West Hollywood. — DTown Pizzeria

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Ronan

Sotto veteran Daniel Cutler oversees this pizza and small plates restaurant with wife and general manager Caitlin Cutler. With inventive pizzas boasting supple but charred crusts and levain bread with a wonderfully brown crust, Ronan is a haven for those who love carbohydrates.

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7315 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046

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Sweet cheeks pizza with guanciale, ricotta forte, and cacio e pepe honey — Ronan wood-fired pizza with guanciale and ricotta.

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Pijja Palace

This sports bar-meets-North Indian pizza parlor has quickly built a following for its 12- and 16-inch pies. Choose a base sauce from makhini (made with tomatoes, spices, and cream), a nontraditional peri peri vindaloo (made with a roux and Kashmiri red chiles, and fortified with a rich vegetable stock), or white korma (sweet onions, yogurt, and spices). Toppings range from homemade Goan sausage to roasted fresnos to chicken tikka, making this a choose-your-own flavor adventure.

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2711 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026

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Pizza, wings, pasta at Pijja Palace in Silver Lake on a green tiled table. — Pizza, wings, pasta at Pijja Palace in Silver Lake.

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Prime Pizza

Prime Pizza has become LA’s de facto slice joint. The place not only does simple thin round pies, it also works square and Sicilian-style pizzas daily, and with locations now open from Burbank to Little Tokyo to Santa Monica, its reach is bigger than ever.

446 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036

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A square slice of pizza being pulled off from the corner. — Prime Pizza square slices.

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Quarter Sheets Pizza

What started as a pandemic pop-up run out of their Glendale home has turned into a brick-and-mortar pizza-and-cake restaurant in Echo Park for Aaron Lindell and Hannah Ziskin (House of Gluten). He makes the Detroit-style pizzas, baked in traditional pans for charred, crispy-crunchy edges and a tender, focaccia-like crumb. Although his pies are just as good with a simple topping of tomato with a few sprigs of basil, rotating specials often combine sweet, spicy, and meaty elements to perfection. Ziskin, meanwhile, makes some of the best desserts in town, which range from layered slab cakes to princess cakes to thick slices of mud pie.

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1305 Portia St, Los Angeles, CA 90026

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Detroit-style pizza with jalapenos, cheese, tomato, and pineapple. — A pineapple-topped Quarter Sheets pie.

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Apollonia's Pizzeria

It’s hard to think of a more photogenic pizza than the square Detroit-style pies from the unassuming Apollonia’s on Wilshire (just check out those high-edged, lacy corners). These dense, expertly cheesy pizzas are filled with crunch, cheese, and plenty of sauce, to be sure, but the place’s crispy, thin, round pies are also worthy of a swoon or two.

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5176 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

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Whole pizza sliced with cheese in a cardboard box. — Whole cheese pizza from Apollonia’s.

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Pizzeria Sei

William Joo and wife Jennifer So are bringing excellent wood-fired, Tokyo-style Neapolitan pies to Pico-Robertson at their tiny restaurant, where diners watch Joo fire pies from an intimate wrap-around counter. Korean-born Joo trained at Via Alloro, Providence, Angelini Osteria, Pizzana, and Ronan before opening his own spot, where he pinches the dough to create a more three-dimensional shape and a crust that’s both soft and crunchy. The compact pizza menu includes a stellar fior di latte-topped margherita, a bianca pie with preserved lemon and basil, and the cheese-free napoletana with tomato, anchovy, olive, garlic, capers, oregano, extra virgin olive oil.

8781 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90035

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Tomato and cheese pizza with basil on a white plate. — Margherita pizza from Pizzeria Sei.

Pizzana

The late Jonathan Gold made some hefty claims about Pizzana, comparing chef Daniele Uditi's neo-Neapolitan pies to the best in the world. Given the restaurant's naturally fermented dough and wood-fired oven, it’d be difficult to argue otherwise. Newbies should absolutely try the creamy cacio e pepe pie, or the diavola, topped with spicy salami and nduja walnut romesco. Both have become Uditi signatures.

11712 San Vincente Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049

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A whole pizza from Pizzana, with burrata and squash blossoms. — Pizzana

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Danny Boy's Famous Original Pizza

Danny Boy’s comes from one of NYC’s former Meatball Shop co-founders and is an homage to East Coast red-sauce roots. It’s tucked away inside of an office building doing takeout and on-site dining from a tall, sunny ground floor atrium space.

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330 S Hope St Suit 205, Los Angeles, CA 90071

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Pizza, sandwiches, and more from Danny Boy’s Famous Original Pizza in Downtown LA. — Danny Boy’s Famous Original pizzas.

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Superfine Pizza

Steve and Dina Samson opened one of the city’s most detail-oriented thin-crust pizzas next to their Fashion District restaurant Rossoblu. Using a high temperature electric deck oven, Samson uses three-day old dough that boasts a pliant structure that takes on everything from classic pepperoni to a mixed vegetable pie with escarole, red onion, smoked olives, and mozzarella.

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1101 San Pedro St unit f, Los Angeles, CA 90015

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Chef Steve Samson builds a thin crust pizza at Superfine Pizza. — Superfine Pizza

Pizzeria Bianco

Pizzeria Bianco is now in Los Angeles, meaning whole pies and daytime slices alike. Bianco has long split his time between LA and Phoenix, and he’s even growing his brand locally by spinning off a Pane Bianco for slices and sandwiches nearby at the same Row DTLA complex soon.

1320 E 7th St #100, Los Angeles, CA 90021

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Three slices of cheese pizza, two with red sauce, a third with green sauce, on paper plates. — Three slices from Pizzeria Bianco in Los Angeles.

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Roberta's

It’s no secret that the bright, shiny Culver City location lacks the grit that made the original Brooklyn Roberta’s feel punk-rock, but stellar pies do the talking here. Wood-fired, a little chewy, nicely charred pizzas include now-classics like the bee sting (with pepperoni and hot honey) and famous original (with tomato, mozzarella, parmesan, caciocavallo, oregano, and chile). Always-rotating, super-fresh vegetable dishes, well-mixed cocktails, and puffed-up pizza dough masquerading as bread and served with creamy cultured butter make this more than the average pizza joint.

8810 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232

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Wood-fired pizza with colorful toppings. — Blistered pizza from Roberta’s.

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Emmy Squared

Growing East Coast chain Emmy Squared has hit the Santa Monica shores (sort of) landing on Colorado Avenue as part of the Santa Monica Brew Works facility. Find hefty slices with lots of cupped pepperoni for on-site patio dining or to-go.

1920 Colorado Ave suite c, Santa Monica, CA 90404

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A square pizza in a to go box with a pint of light yellow beer beyond. — Emmy Squared pizza.

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Little Coyote

Long Beach’s pizza destination is an ode to the New York-style from Jonathan Strader and Jack Leahy with wide, puffy pies topped generously with sauce and cheese. At Little Coyote’s two locations, toppings range from pepperoni cups and mozzarella to a garlicky white pie with spinach, ricotta, and Calabrian chili.

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2118 E 4th St, Long Beach, CA 90814

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A stack of white boxes of pizza with olives on the topmost pie. — Little Coyote

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786 Degrees

8879 Laurel Canyon Blvd unit # A, Sun Valley, CA 91352

Chef Ali Haider has a hit with 786 Degrees, the temp-specific Sun Valley spot for busy, blistered — and completely halal — pizzas. Expect top quality ingredients and a good amount of char from the wood-fired oven, and for anyone looking a bit closer to the heart of LA, Haider also operates Sapori in Pasadena.

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8879 Laurel Canyon Blvd unit # A, Sun Valley, CA 91352

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View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Pizzaiolo *Ali Haider Ali* (@786degrees)

Ozzy’s Apizza

156 S Brand Blvd, Glendale, CA 91204

This New Haven-style specialist is hiding inside an underground sports bar in Glendale. It’s hardly the kind of well-known place to find some of LA’s best pizza, but that’s okay — those in the know DM early for orders of darkly burnished, thin, delicious pies.

Open in Google Maps

156 S Brand Blvd, Glendale, CA 91204

Visit Website

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Ozzy’s New Haven Style Pizza (@ozzysapizza)

Bagel + Slice

4751 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042

This carb-focused Highland Park spot from chef Bradford Kent (Olio, Blaze) has a socially responsible and environmentally conscious bent, using 10 percent regenerative wheat for both the pizza and the bagels. The 16-inch, firm-crusted New York-style pies strike a good balance between sauce and cheese, and with two vegan options (vegan cheese and vegan vodka with mushroom-fennel sausage and red onion), there’s something here for everyone.

Open in Google Maps

4751 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042

Visit Website

Pepperoni pizza slice from Bagel+Slice.

L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele

1534 N McCadden Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90028

The famous Eat, Pray, Love pizza is now a staple in Los Angeles, thanks in part to a charming Hollywood patio and these seriously Neapolitan pies, which arrive big, blistery, soft, and ready for fast consumption.

Open in Google Maps

1534 N McCadden Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Visit Website

Pizzas from L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele in Hollywood, California — L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele

DTown Pizzeria

7326 Santa Monica Blvd #10, West Hollywood, CA 90046

West Hollywood’s DTown Pizzeria is a must for people looking for the most ‘authentic’ Detroit pizza experience. Made by a native Michigander, these hefty pies come with the sauce on top, the stretchy cheese, and all the crusty-cornered deliciousness one could want.

Open in Google Maps

7326 Santa Monica Blvd #10, West Hollywood, CA 90046

Visit Website

Pepperoni pizza at Dtown Pizzeria in West Hollywood. — DTown Pizzeria

Ronan

7315 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046

Sotto veteran Daniel Cutler oversees this pizza and small plates restaurant with wife and general manager Caitlin Cutler. With inventive pizzas boasting supple but charred crusts and levain bread with a wonderfully brown crust, Ronan is a haven for those who love carbohydrates.

Open in Google Maps

7315 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046

Visit Website

Sweet cheeks pizza with guanciale, ricotta forte, and cacio e pepe honey — Ronan wood-fired pizza with guanciale and ricotta.

Pijja Palace

2711 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026

This sports bar-meets-North Indian pizza parlor has quickly built a following for its 12- and 16-inch pies. Choose a base sauce from makhini (made with tomatoes, spices, and cream), a nontraditional peri peri vindaloo (made with a roux and Kashmiri red chiles, and fortified with a rich vegetable stock), or white korma (sweet onions, yogurt, and spices). Toppings range from homemade Goan sausage to roasted fresnos to chicken tikka, making this a choose-your-own flavor adventure.

Open in Google Maps

2711 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026

Visit Website

Pizza, wings, pasta at Pijja Palace in Silver Lake on a green tiled table. — Pizza, wings, pasta at Pijja Palace in Silver Lake.

Prime Pizza

446 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Prime Pizza has become LA’s de facto slice joint. The place not only does simple thin round pies, it also works square and Sicilian-style pizzas daily, and with locations now open from Burbank to Little Tokyo to Santa Monica, its reach is bigger than ever.

446 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Visit Website

A square slice of pizza being pulled off from the corner. — Prime Pizza square slices.

Quarter Sheets Pizza

1305 Portia St, Los Angeles, CA 90026

What started as a pandemic pop-up run out of their Glendale home has turned into a brick-and-mortar pizza-and-cake restaurant in Echo Park for Aaron Lindell and Hannah Ziskin (House of Gluten). He makes the Detroit-style pizzas, baked in traditional pans for charred, crispy-crunchy edges and a tender, focaccia-like crumb. Although his pies are just as good with a simple topping of tomato with a few sprigs of basil, rotating specials often combine sweet, spicy, and meaty elements to perfection. Ziskin, meanwhile, makes some of the best desserts in town, which range from layered slab cakes to princess cakes to thick slices of mud pie.

Open in Google Maps

1305 Portia St, Los Angeles, CA 90026

Visit Website

Detroit-style pizza with jalapenos, cheese, tomato, and pineapple. — A pineapple-topped Quarter Sheets pie.

Apollonia's Pizzeria

5176 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

It’s hard to think of a more photogenic pizza than the square Detroit-style pies from the unassuming Apollonia’s on Wilshire (just check out those high-edged, lacy corners). These dense, expertly cheesy pizzas are filled with crunch, cheese, and plenty of sauce, to be sure, but the place’s crispy, thin, round pies are also worthy of a swoon or two.

Open in Google Maps

5176 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Visit Website

Whole pizza sliced with cheese in a cardboard box. — Whole cheese pizza from Apollonia’s.

Pizzeria Sei

8781 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90035

William Joo and wife Jennifer So are bringing excellent wood-fired, Tokyo-style Neapolitan pies to Pico-Robertson at their tiny restaurant, where diners watch Joo fire pies from an intimate wrap-around counter. Korean-born Joo trained at Via Alloro, Providence, Angelini Osteria, Pizzana, and Ronan before opening his own spot, where he pinches the dough to create a more three-dimensional shape and a crust that’s both soft and crunchy. The compact pizza menu includes a stellar fior di latte-topped margherita, a bianca pie with preserved lemon and basil, and the cheese-free napoletana with tomato, anchovy, olive, garlic, capers, oregano, extra virgin olive oil.

8781 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90035

Visit Website

Tomato and cheese pizza with basil on a white plate. — Margherita pizza from Pizzeria Sei.

Pizzana

11712 San Vincente Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049

The late Jonathan Gold made some hefty claims about Pizzana, comparing chef Daniele Uditi's neo-Neapolitan pies to the best in the world. Given the restaurant's naturally fermented dough and wood-fired oven, it’d be difficult to argue otherwise. Newbies should absolutely try the creamy cacio e pepe pie, or the diavola, topped with spicy salami and nduja walnut romesco. Both have become Uditi signatures.

11712 San Vincente Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049

Visit Website

A whole pizza from Pizzana, with burrata and squash blossoms. — Pizzana

Danny Boy's Famous Original Pizza

330 S Hope St Suit 205, Los Angeles, CA 90071

Danny Boy’s comes from one of NYC’s former Meatball Shop co-founders and is an homage to East Coast red-sauce roots. It’s tucked away inside of an office building doing takeout and on-site dining from a tall, sunny ground floor atrium space.

Open in Google Maps

330 S Hope St Suit 205, Los Angeles, CA 90071

Visit Website

Pizza, sandwiches, and more from Danny Boy’s Famous Original Pizza in Downtown LA. — Danny Boy’s Famous Original pizzas.

Superfine Pizza

1101 San Pedro St unit f, Los Angeles, CA 90015

Steve and Dina Samson opened one of the city’s most detail-oriented thin-crust pizzas next to their Fashion District restaurant Rossoblu. Using a high temperature electric deck oven, Samson uses three-day old dough that boasts a pliant structure that takes on everything from classic pepperoni to a mixed vegetable pie with escarole, red onion, smoked olives, and mozzarella.

Open in Google Maps

1101 San Pedro St unit f, Los Angeles, CA 90015

Visit Website

Chef Steve Samson builds a thin crust pizza at Superfine Pizza. — Superfine Pizza

Pizzeria Bianco

1320 E 7th St #100, Los Angeles, CA 90021

Pizzeria Bianco is now in Los Angeles, meaning whole pies and daytime slices alike. Bianco has long split his time between LA and Phoenix, and he’s even growing his brand locally by spinning off a Pane Bianco for slices and sandwiches nearby at the same Row DTLA complex soon.

1320 E 7th St #100, Los Angeles, CA 90021

Visit Website

Three slices of cheese pizza, two with red sauce, a third with green sauce, on paper plates. — Three slices from Pizzeria Bianco in Los Angeles.

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Roberta's

8810 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232

It’s no secret that the bright, shiny Culver City location lacks the grit that made the original Brooklyn Roberta’s feel punk-rock, but stellar pies do the talking here. Wood-fired, a little chewy, nicely charred pizzas include now-classics like the bee sting (with pepperoni and hot honey) and famous original (with tomato, mozzarella, parmesan, caciocavallo, oregano, and chile). Always-rotating, super-fresh vegetable dishes, well-mixed cocktails, and puffed-up pizza dough masquerading as bread and served with creamy cultured butter make this more than the average pizza joint.

8810 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232

Visit Website

Wood-fired pizza with colorful toppings. — Blistered pizza from Roberta’s.

Emmy Squared

1920 Colorado Ave suite c, Santa Monica, CA 90404

Growing East Coast chain Emmy Squared has hit the Santa Monica shores (sort of) landing on Colorado Avenue as part of the Santa Monica Brew Works facility. Find hefty slices with lots of cupped pepperoni for on-site patio dining or to-go.

1920 Colorado Ave suite c, Santa Monica, CA 90404

Visit Website

A square pizza in a to go box with a pint of light yellow beer beyond. — Emmy Squared pizza.

Little Coyote

2118 E 4th St, Long Beach, CA 90814

Long Beach’s pizza destination is an ode to the New York-style from Jonathan Strader and Jack Leahy with wide, puffy pies topped generously with sauce and cheese. At Little Coyote’s two locations, toppings range from pepperoni cups and mozzarella to a garlicky white pie with spinach, ricotta, and Calabrian chili.

Open in Google Maps

2118 E 4th St, Long Beach, CA 90814

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A stack of white boxes of pizza with olives on the topmost pie. — Little Coyote

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