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Pizzeria Sei

William Joo and his wife Jennifer So opened this Pico-Robertson storefront in 2022 practising a Tokyo-style pizza: a Neapolitan foundation reworked through the Nakameguro school Susumu Kakinuma founded at Seirinkan in 2007, plus a signature "salt-punch" technique of sprinkling salt into the oven as the pie bakes. Joo describes constantly checking his dough's pH and adjusting flour and hydration by hand.

8781 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90035 · Los Angeles · Neapolitan · est. 2022

A pizza with a blistered, charred crust, tomato, mozzarella and basil, seen close on a wooden board.
From Pizzeria Sei

Why it is here

William Joo and his wife Jennifer So opened this Pico-Robertson storefront in 2022 practising a Tokyo-style pizza: a Neapolitan foundation reworked through the Nakameguro school Susumu Kakinuma founded at Seirinkan in 2007, plus a signature "salt-punch" technique of sprinkling salt into the oven as the pie bakes. Joo describes constantly checking his dough's pH and adjusting flour and hydration by hand.

What to order

Omakase-style pizza tasting; the wood-fired margherita with the signature salt-punch finish

What we looked at

Neapolitan foundation reworked via Tokyo's Seirinkan lineage, described by its own chef as "Tokyo-by-way-of-L.A."Wood-fired brick oven at approximately 800°FHands-on dough process: flour and hydration tweaked continuously, pH checkedSignature "salt-punch" technique