Review: Wood-fired pizza blazes a path northward in Orange County

Critic Brad A. Johnson says the distance from Los Alamitos to Naples just got a lot shorter.
Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • February 11, 2021
While the Neapolitan pizza trend has spread like wildfire in recent years, it has mostly avoided the northern reaches of Orange County. So the opening of Pietrini Pizza Napoletana in Los Alamitos is overdue news. Owner Landon Pietrini imported one...
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