#sourdough-pizza

#sourdough-pizza

The dough is what really makes a Sodo pizza stand out - the sourdough base is made using flour from heritage grains and is fermented for 72 hours to make it light and digestible. But the toppings are no afterthought, with the team sourcing ingredients from local producers, including mozzarella and burrata made in Acton, pepperoni and nduja cured in Islington, honey from Walthamstow and leaves from a salad farm in Dagenham.

New York City is many things: A place to meander through museums and parks, to sit enthralled in a dark off-Broadway black box theater, to live in a studio with a bathroom in the kitchen and happily pay an absurd amount for it. It should be no surprise that for those of us at Bon Appétit who call the city home, it's all about the food.

If you like to start your day with pastries and bagels and end it with pizza, you'll want to pay a visit to Wingen Bakery in Livermore. By day, this spot operates as a cafe, with grab-and-go pastries, like their wildly flaky and generously filled pain au chocolat, as well as full-service sit-down breakfast and lunch. At night, you'll find a separate menu of sourdough pizzas with seasonally rotating toppings, salads, and small plates.

It was getting really [tricky] in terms of capacity," he says.

Square Pie Guys in SoMa is leading the pack, and making one of the city's best rectangular-shaped pizzas. Each one is small but mighty-8x10 and serves 1 to 2 people.