Casa Bianca Pizza Pie

• Cuisine(s): Italian, Pizza
  Hours: Tue-Thu 4pm-0am, Fri-Sat 4pm-1am
  Price: $
• Payment Types: cash
  Features: Takeout, Family Style
  Serving: Dinner, Late Night
• Alcohol: Beer/Wine
  Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary
  Parking: Street

Description

The first time I stepped into Casa Bianca, neon sign glowing "Pizza Pie" in nursery pink and blue, I knew it was the pizza parlor I had always hoped to find in California: perfumed with a whomp of garlic, alive with the roar of customers who had been clustering around the checkered tablecloths for decades. The pizzas were burnt, bubbling majestic things, crunchy and thin in the style of Chicago bar pizza, dusted with gritty cornmeal on the bottom and sliced in a way that defied standard geometry. I got mine with sausage and strips of fried eggplant. In the 20-odd years since then, I have seen little need to change my order. Casa Bianca, the fiefdom of the Martorana family since 1955, serves the best neighborhood-pizzeria pizza in L.A. The sausage is homemade, but the mushrooms on the pizza are canned, old-school style, if that sort of thing bothers you. And there's freshly filled cannoli for dessert. See full review.