Craftsman Woodfired Pizza: The Return of the Parlor

A reader from Placentia wrote to us asking if we knew anything about a pizza joint called Craftsman Wood Fired Pizza that's about to open there. What we know we've gleaned from the cookie crumbs strewn all over the Internets. For instance, we know...

Bloody hell! I’m seated next to an honest-to-goodness fireplace in a Craftsman house built in the 1920s. When a server walks past carrying a tray loaded with Mason jars of Bloody Marys, the wooden floor creaks, flexes and groans beneath her feet....

There are no walls at Simmzy's. No, really, there aren't any outside walls. Every seat along the border of this street-corner bar-cum-restaurant is essentially on the sidewalk. There used to be two presumably non-load-bearing façades enclosing the...

“I'd like pepperoni, sausage, meatba—” I started to say to the Pieology worker when she cut me off. “No, I only do sauces,” she growled. “Pardon me?” “I only do sauces!” she repeated even more forcefully, her head down, a permanent scowl etched...

If you want to eat all you can at an all-you-can-eat in Orange County, there will be a lot of Indian, a lot of sushi, and a lot of Korean BBQs. This list has more than a few of each. But there are non-Indian, non-KBBQ, non-sushi options, too…just...