DINING: LAROCCO’S PIZZERIA

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LAROCCO’S PIZZERIA

 

In case you didn’t know, I’m from Brooklyn. When I have pizza at my favorite joint there, I have to don sunglasses, pull my hair back, and close my eyes–I want nothing to impede my gustatory pleasure.

So, when I heard (a couple of years ago) that there was a pizza place in Culver City that calls itself “a slice of new York,” I thought, “Yeah, yeah, yeah.” I gathered some pals and approached with some skepticism.

But let me tell you, this is true Brooklyn pizza! LaRocco’s is absolute BEST PIZZA IN ALL OF LOS ANGELES! Dot, dash, end of story. This may be the shortest review I’ve ever written because there’s really nothing left to say.

I’ve now eaten this pizza for about two years now, and still can’t get enough of it. I’ve featured it at some of my parties since then, and people have gone nuts over it. During my recent siege with my back, while Mr. X was out of town and my friends had to take care of me, several of them suggested bringing me LaRocco’s pizza, just so they could share it, I think.

There are a couple of other menu items, too, but LaRocco’s serves mainly pizza, with many different combinations of ingredients. You can order whole pies, or just slices of the eight most popular kinds. Or, take advantage of their special, which isn’t on the menu, and pick-out eight different slices to make up a whole pie.

To me, the only way to know how good any pizza really is, is to try the plain cheese one. This one is perfect. Mr. X dubbed it “superior pizza,” while all my friends said they would come all the way from Hollywood and the valley to have it again!

At my original, in-restaurant review of LaRocco’s, we tried slices of some of the other varieties. Jeanine was most impressed with the vegetarian Paul’s Special, named after the amiable Brooklyn-born owner, while Mr. X said, “four stars for the Whitestone” (4 out of 4, of course) and “unusually good” for the spinach and tomato. Bronx-reared Eadie stuck with her borough’s namesake and was impressed. No one could tear me away from my cheese slice.

There are also two salads that are already made-up each day to grab and go, (garden and Greek) and we found them both to be quite good, especially paired with the fabulous garlic knots and marinara dipping sauce.

Eadie, who’s not much of a pizza-eater, went to town on the gigantic mozzarella calzone and “one of the best meatball sandwiches” she’s ever had! They offer a chicken parmesan sandwich, as well, and a cold salami and provolone, with dressing you put on fresh, so it doesn’t get soggy. LaRocco’s thinks of everything! (Including carrying beer and wine, which we were too enthralled to even notice at the time.)

As if having delicious food wasn’t enough, the guys who work there, Rodrigo and Jose, make the whole experience pleasant, which is as important to me as the fare. [Note: I don’t know if they’re still there, but everyone who answers the phone is nice, too.] And you have a choice of dining inside or on the patio, very fast take-out, or local delivery. As long as you do whichever one before they run out of dough, because that’s their closing time! (The menu states, “Open daily 11am to when we run out of dough.”) We Brooklynites always have a sense of humor, don’t we?! And perfect pizza, too!

LaRocco’s Pizzeria   3819 Main Street   310-837-8345   www.laroccospizzeria.com
 

 

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