Mozza usually comes to us via serendipity. In the nabe? Want to see the demure giant of LA chefs plate your burrata course? O.Mozza it is. Want a sophisticated but unstuffy dessert course? O. Mozza’s bar it is. Fight in line for a pie? Or order take out pizza? Ehn…
As a former pizza delivery agent, in a gas-guzzling, too-fast-for-me turbocharged Wankel-Rotary RX7, natch, the fact that delivered pizza ranks barely above sushi take-out in terms of the food desirability scale escapes me not. Don’t have a precious toddler whom you must babysit? Go to the pizza parlor, or don’t bother eating the pie at all.
Try as it may, Mozza2go can’t break that kind of scientific curse. It’s a take-out pizza parlor that serves pizza in a conventional cardboard box. Unless you live on Citrus Ave, chances are, your freshly baked pizza will be nearly flummuxed by the time you get home. If you’re so unfortunate (in Mozza2Go terms) to actually live in NoHo or DTLA, forget driving the pizza to the final destination. Nancy gently warns, via a pizza box sticker, to not nuke her pies baby, and instead to reheat the pizza in 350deg hot oven. How about I top Chef Silverton and advise this: “don’t jack up her pies by ever reheating it”. Eat it on the mf’ing sidewalk. Don’t make me sit on the curb by myself.
Also, ordering the olive oil cake to go is such a traumatic emotional roller coaster. You open the bag up, with images of grandiose plating & soft gelato paired to seemingly warm & moist olive oil cake floating in your mind, only to be greeted with a wax paper covered nondescript piece of cornbread. It’s total blue balls by cake.
Finally, for those who still have the Blackboardeats coupons: if you’re really desperate, or stoic, enough to drive your pie all the way home, do NOT, I repeat, do NOT attempt to reheat the pies on top of an induction oven, nor reheat it on an aluminum pan fired by a portable propane stove. I’m not “just sayin’” this, it’s been tested.
This was a PSA, hence no trashing Mozza2go.
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Why LA Weekly's 99 Must Eat piece is Not a Must Read. | sinosoul.com added these pithy words on Mar 05 10 at 1:51 pmDiana added these pithy words on Feb 02 10 at 12:04 pmI think that is my favorite picture that you have ever posted on your blog. I may have to take one of myself chowing down on the Mozza pie for my profile picture.
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Bonnibella added these pithy words on Feb 02 10 at 2:18 pmThe fact that you were once a delivery guy we could relate. When customers complain about fried food not being “crispy.” Uh have you ever heard of steam getting trap in an enclosed box.
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Gastronomnom added these pithy words on Feb 02 10 at 3:51 pmI actually got take out from M2G last night. Reheating in the oven per Nancy’s instructions yielded passable but far from ideal results. I wouldn’t judge their pizza based upon it.
TonyC added these pithy words on Feb 02 10 at 5:20 pmDi, how about you model for me at Pitfire, and I’ll take pix of you with the entire PITFIRE (not Mozza) pie? Sans box.
Bonni, could it be? There is no good take-out food except Chinese!?
weezermonkey added these pithy words on Feb 02 10 at 8:59 pmI’d eat on the sidewalk to keep it crisp for sure.
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tien. added these pithy words on Feb 03 10 at 12:00 amThe toaster oven!! Not the same (of course), but it saved the 5 M2G pizzas I had, a few slices at a time. Also ordered the budino – the deliciousness still in tact (sans rosemary cookies though – bummer), but presented in a cheap-ish plastic cup that made me think I ordered soft serve from an ice cream truck.
bagnatic added these pithy words on Feb 03 10 at 12:12 ambetter yet, sit in a parked car and stuff face like you’re embarassed you’re eating :0
i’ll take your tip to heart that reheating designer pizza is a dumb idea.
Louise added these pithy words on Feb 04 10 at 4:02 pmDespite how good pizza in a cardboard box smells, I have to agree on this. The best place to eat mozza2go is in your car in the parking spot a few yards away from the take-out area. Next time I do mozza2go, I may bring a picnic blanket, a bottle of wine in a brown paper bag, and set up a nice lunch area on the grassy divider on Highland and watch the poor people waiting for spots in the restaurant while I munch on my pizza. Hey, if it works for Cheeseboard, why not Mozza2go?
TonyC added these pithy words on Feb 04 10 at 4:21 pmO c’mon bagnatic, look at Louise! She’s not embarrassed! What we need is some PDC: public display of chowing. And I totally agree with Tien. The budinos taste fine, but man, I want it in ceramics. Call me a snob.
MaxMillion added these pithy words on Feb 04 10 at 4:27 pm“It’s total blue balls by cake” heh heh
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bagnatic added these pithy words on Feb 08 10 at 6:20 pmPDC ha! good one.
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