i'm not obsessed or nothing....

... but i have spent the entire weekend staring at (and drooling over) pictures of bubbly, charred pizza crust in search of the perfect wood-fired heavenly pizza pie.

it all started innocently when i was looking for flea markets to visit and found this little street vendor at a brooklyn flea market selling THIS PIZZA out of a mobile brick oven :| it's official - i want that mobile brick oven - and i will take it everywhere i go!!!!


anyway.... on saturday, we checked out pizza e vino in 'little boxes made of ticky tacky' rancho santa margarita (THE most annoying name waaayyy-too-long name EVERRR!! i could never live there because writing my address on forms would take up 105% of my daily patience...)


they claim to have have one of only 36 brick ovens in the entire u.s. of a.... which i just don't believe and forced me to take everything they did and said with a huge pinch of salt. however! the pizza was pretty yummy and everyone smiled and wasn't all pretentious and annoying-like so i will be back :)

last place we tried was pizzeria ortica in south coast plaza area. oh. em. gee. pretentious and annoying and no-one smiled at all EVER and they lifted furniture over our heads for the entire meal AND we had to park in a structure (i don't like parking structures:| ) the pizza on the edges was pretty awesome but in the middle with the ingredients the pizza guy had handpicked to go together artistically and refused to leave off so as not to spoil the "art" of the dish (it's pizza....... get over yourself)... not so much. i gave it 5 out of 10 just for the crust alone but never ever want to go back, however charred those bubbles might be :|


all my research led me to create my next culinary tour departing next saturday: the los angeles pizza tour 2010 stopping at...

pitfire pizza

mulberry pizza

village pizza

mozza


and maybe blue jay way too :)

next tour - Phoenix AZ!!! there are SOOOOO MANY notable pizzerias on my list to try there, i have no clue why, but i just know i must go!! and hungry too!!! most important on my list: pizza bianco, which is allegedly the best pizzeria in the country :) with a 3 hour wait...

ok now i am starving... off to find a breakfast cereal that tastes and smells like burnt bubbly pizza crust :)