Photo Gallery

We’re going to be visiting with Tony Gemignani at Tony’s Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco over the coming weeks.  As I was building this Photo Gallery I thought back to when we first arrived and met Tony.  We were walking around with him as our crew was setting up while he showed us around his new pizzeria.  He took us in to see the wood fired oven that he brought…Read More…

  We are just launching a series of new webisode segments that take us on our journey from Los Angeles up to San Francisco.  On the road trip we made a stop along the Central Coast of California in two small coastal towns: Morro Bay and Cayucos, CA. This series of webisode segments mark a special moment for me on my Pizza Quest. Peter recently blogged, on Tuesday March 29th,…Read More…

We are beginning our tour of a little neighborhood, actually a little block in the Castro District of San Francisco that has become known to locals as “The Gastro” because of the great food options there.  The reason for our visit was to visit with Craig Stoll and his Pizzaiolo Anthony Strong of Pizzeria Delfina.  On our way, actually the day before we were to meet with them at Delfina…Read More…

Pizzeria Mozza! How lucky am I to live and work near Pizzeria Mozza? Look at these pizzas!  And, let me tell you, they taste even better than they look! I have always been a fan of Mario Batali, one of the owners of Pizzeria Mozza.  I have watched Molto Mario with my son Owen (12) for years. In fact, Owen has a plan to try to get on the show. …Read More…

As Brad told you, these photos are from our very first quest, during the summer of 2009. We traveled from LA to San Francisco, with many stops in-between, and met quite number of interesting people, many of them not shown here in these photos (for instance, we had some great slices at the legendary Cheese Board in Berkeley, on their wonderful sourdough crust–we’ll have that for you in a subsequent…Read More…

Welcome to the Pizza Quest Photo Gallery! As the saying goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words”, so we’re going to let these photos, and the ones to come, help tell the stories for us. The Gallery will serve as our Pizza Quest photo album, capturing the flavors of each journey we go on. We also want to encourage you to send us your best pizza photos and we’ll…Read More…

  We have just introduced Kelly Whitaker of Pizzeria Basta with his Bel Gioioso Burrata Cheese appetizer in the Instructional section.  Let me just say that this is a recipe you will want to try at home.  I have personally made this 3 times since I returned from the trip.  As Kelly says, he uses whatever he has in season, or on hand.  I have done my versions with Leeks,…Read More…

The Ultimate Pie with Peter ReinhartOctober 16th and 17th The Fire Within http://portablebrickpizzaoven.com/ Please enjoy some of the photos from The Ultimate Pie workshop put on by Joseph Pergolizzi of The Fire Within where Peter was a special guest speaker/chef.  It was an amazing weekend, where Peter came to teach, but also learned from a great group of mobile wood-fired oven pizza operators, as well as home chefs from across…Read More…