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Nancy Silverton Is Eyeing Some Major Moves and Expansions - Los Angeles Magazine

As Mario Batali steps away from his restaurant group, Silverton embraces a new role

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Day 5: Pizzeria Mozza, Hollywood

The neighborhood called Hollywood is nothing like what I’d pictured. I imagined mansions, movie studios, glitter and lights everywhere plus fancy women in evening gowns with opera gloves that look like sleeves. Basically, I’m an idiot and have no right to make fun of people who ask me if everything in New York is like Sex and the City or Seinfeld. (Actually, it’s a little like Seinfeld).

Anyway, I was not super into the idea of Pizzeria Mozza because a New Yorker does not come to LA to eat pizza. Also, it is partially owned by Mario Batali who once showed up clearly unshowered in shorts and a Hawaiian shirt to a formal event I was staffing. However, Pizzeria Mozza is also partially owned by Chef Nancy Silverton who has going for her the fact that she has a beautiful first name and that she is the only person to have an episode of the stupid, self-important show Chef’s Table who I did not want to punch in the face. Plus I figured Mike probably wouldn’t let me get sushi three days in a row. 

Mike and I got the arugula and mushroom salad, which was very simple but also perfectly balanced and delicious. We shared the goat cheese, leek and bacon pizza which was...eh. Mike liked it more than I did. For something billed as “the best pizza” it was neither best nor pizza, but more like a heavily topped flatbread. We had the cherry and almond crostini with mascarpone which was my favorite part of the meal (h/t Nancy Silverton, who is a pastry chef.) 

I wouldn’t send you away if you were going there but I wouldn’t go again.

Pizzeria Mozza

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Pizzeria Mozza August 2016