Vito's Pizza

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Though Los Angeles is known more for its tofu than it is for its pizza, not even the most health conscious celebutante can resist a slice of Vito’s authentic New York-style pizza. While New York City transplants often bemoan the lack of tasty pies in Southern California, Vito’s is silently turning heads with the thin crust style pizzas that emerge piping hot and oozing with bubbling cheese from their pizza oven.

The quaint space located near the intersection of Santa Monica Blvd. and La Cienega, is as bare bones as it comes in terms of décor and ambiance. There is nothing trendy about the tiny strip-mall dive that boasts only small tabletops best suited for couples and tiny groups of friends looking for one thing: Good pizza that makes the indulgence on fat grams and calories worth every moan-inducing bite.

What Vito’s lacks in atmosphere, it more than makes up for with charming service and craveably good veggie, cheese, margherita, and white pizza slices. Servers are present and eager to get the smiling patrons slice after slice, and are always on hand when cups of root beer start getting low.

While Vito’s has imported the New York flavor, there is nary a hint of the New York attitude from the affable staff whose banter creates a familiar ambiance in the small space. Everyone is happy to be there, even the typically carb-o-phobic girl in the corner, devouring her veggie slice that is loaded with spinach, broccoli, tomatoes, and glistening globs of ricotta. Vito’s may not be the ideal spot for maintaining a streamlined figure, but it’s the perfect place to spend a low-key Friday night.