Wood: Handcrafted Pizza [silverlake]

Wood: Handcrafted Pizza

2861 Sunset Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90026

Wood is one of the newer pizza spots in LA, and will probably soon be named the best. The pizza is amazing and it is set up in an old drive-thru mexican fast food restaurant. The ambiance is now casual with cool lighting and reflective table tops, and a view of the pizza oven from most tables. It's located pretty close to Sunset Junction in Silverlake, with a small parking lot (~7 cars) behind the restaurant, visible as if you were driving around the old drive thru. The old drive thru window is still in tact, and makes me smile every time I see it.


This was our second time at Wood. I think this is also the pizza place Ellen had pizza delivered from when she hosted the Oscars. It is fairly new, opening around Oscars time last year. This time when we went, the menu was noticeably more expansive. The first time we went there were around 8 total pizzas on the menu, and this time there were about 16, separated by white sauce and red sauce, each boasting around 8 different pizzas. I ordered the same pizza as last time, the basic margherita. I thought that the pizza was pretty good the first time, but this second pizza stood out to me as even better. The amount of (and quality of) cheese on a pizza is probably the most important factor to me in determining the quality of the pizza. This second Wood pizza was covered in thick cheese and it was maybe the best pizza I've ever had. I also really enjoyed that the pizza was sliced into fours, instead of the usual six slices. The wider slices made it much easier to fold the pizza and eat without all of the ingredients sliding off on the first bite. I finished the whole pizza easily and maybe even before Andrew! Just looking at the pizza now makes me wish we were having it for dinner tonight. My one complaint about this place is that it is located in Silverlake which takes about an hour to get to from the west side, on a good day.

Cute outdoor patio and old drive thru sign

Some dinner party taking over half of the restaurant

So much cheese, and a glass of pinot grigio

Perfect fold

Crust: thick but fluffy

Cheese: more than expected, very plentiful

Sauce: average

Recommend: basic margherita

Best part: CHEESE