Pantry's Pizza

This is a small pizza delivery/ mexican eatery place. It might be called Pantry's Pizza but it makes Mexican food. There are several place like this. Mexican families who cook what they know but are also trying to capitalize on the pizza market. The only problem with that is you need to know how to cook pizza.

I ordered a X-Large 16 inch pizza, half bell peppers for $9.25.

There is only one thing I can say about this pizza and that is cheese. Of course I'll say more but cheese is what it's about. There is more cheese on this pizza than any other I have found. It oozes of milky, oily, salty, low-grade mozzarella. It starts high on the crust and gets thicker and thicker till it is just a chuck of warm cheese, creating the long point of the Isosceles triangle that is pizza. It stretches larger and larger and drips endlessly as you try and eat it. The doughy crust has no chance to support the weight and instantly bends down to a vertical position in your hand. Sauce what sauce ? It's just cheese and this time, green peppers drowning in the white sea.

I honestly think it crossed the line, even for the most hardcore cheese heads. There is such a thing as too much and this is it.

What more is there to say.

Again this is a Mexican food place with pizza. So if you want to get Mexican food thats probably the right way to go. I can only speak of the pizza.

Pantry's Pizza

1976 S. La Cienega Blvd 90034

310-204-1414

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Lucia's Pizza

I don't have much to say about this one so I'll try and keep it short. It is a typical pizza joint in this city.

I ordered a medium cheese pizza it was I believe 14 inches. The deal is you get 2 of them when you order, similar to 2 for 1 Pizza. Though this time I saw that deal before I ordered and I got just one for half the price. I maybe be crazy but I don't need 2 pizzas from the same place. So I got mine for something around $6. Two mediums are 12.25.

It is a thicker doughier crust with a slight oily flavor to it. Not necessarily crispy, though not all doughy either. The sauce was light and fresh tasting as was the cheese, but they were put on heavy. The sauce had a sweet flavor but also a slight black pepper taste. I can't say too much beyond that. This is what I get 8 out of every 10 places I go. Typical pizza. It wasn't too bad, it tasted fresh and was slightly crispy. They at least had a deck oven and not a conveyor belt, so that helps. The menu says it is gourmet pizza, but I wont get into that. You will get your moneys worth at Lucia's and you will be satisfied.

Grandma Lucia's Pizza

9030 Venice Blvd. Culver City, 90232

310-838-0331

Price: $

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BOHO

As they say, this is Hollywoods first Gastropub. Which isn't saying a lot. It is a pub with supposedly better food in it than your average british pub. Though we aren't in Britain so most of the pubs around here have decent food, so this isn't the first of anything. It is just another bar with over priced food, trying to be trendy.

I shouldn't really be wasting my time with this review, but a large part of their menu is pizza. So I thought I'd enlighten you with some information about it.

Some friends and I ordered 2 pizzas, typical Marinara pizza and a Margherita pizza. These were the same pizzas, except the Margherita had a tiny bit of shredded basil in the middle and a few sliced tomatoes on it. All the pizzas are personal sizes which is about 12 inches and they are 10 to 15 dollars depending on the fancy toppings you could get. The price for the pizzas actually wasn't that bad. Which makes it more frustrating. The cheapest things on the menu are the pizzas, so they are asking people to order them. So you'd think the pizza is where it's at. Wrong. They pizza is really not good. It is completely over cooked the crust is thin but dried out and tastes like a bad crunchy breadstick. The cheese and sauce were dried out and over cooked too. The sauce tasted alright, but was a marinara sauce not a light sweet tomato sauce. The cheese didn't seem all the fresh, nor did the sauce or dough for that matter.

It wasn't the worst pizza I have had. However the ambience of the place and their gastropub comment, leads you to believe they are going to have great food. It isn't a pizza place so you can be too hard on them, though a quarter of their menu IS pizza. Their beer is good, but that is because they don't make that. I can't speak for the rest of the food, but I'd stick with the drinking.

BOHO

6372 W. Sunset Blvd Hollywood, 90028

Price: $$

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