Three years ago, Jon Guhl, owner of West Coast Pizza in Berkeley, saw the need for a really good pizza parlor in San Francisco. So he and business partner Brian Sadigursky opened Little Star in...
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If you haven’t been following the recent “deep dish wars,” as I like to call them, Zachary’s in Berkeley has remained the undisputed best pizza in the Bay Area for the longest time. Then, a couple of years ago Little Star opened, quietly developing a strong following as a serious contender to the title. I’m not going to get into the fray myself; I like being a double agent!
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After a healthy dinner we succombed to a late night carb craving. We got pizza, which was doughy and generally bad. This was the first time we had pizza in probably 2 years and Alexis' second time having pizza since moving to SF from NYC. Pizza outside of NYC just doesn't even compare.
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I've been waiting a long time to visit Little Star Pizza. I had heard so much about their famed deep dish pizza, eccentric jukebox, and claims of dethroning Zachary's. With bold statements, I had high expectations and traveling with a group of hungry people. I was showing my cousins and brother around the city and even talked up this pizza place a bit. Little Star isn't open during the afternoon so we headed out for an early 5PM dinner. I was surprised to see we weren't the only folks in line. There must have been 20 people walking through the door at opening??? Is it that good?
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Ah, my second outing to eat at this restaurant. On a Wednesday night, it's quite noisy and very busy. Restaurant doesn't take any reservation. The host were pleasant and they were very accommodating when I told them we had 12 people to seat. We all sat in the back by the kitchen.
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After a while, spending gazillions of dollars eating out stops being fun. In fact, it begins to reek of conspicuous consumption, and I start to think of all the African children whom I starved as a child (well, I never finished the peas on my plate and isn't that what was supposed to happen as a result of my wicked, wicked ways?). When that happens, I cannot bear one more fancy schmancy meal.
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This hole-in-the-wall pizza joint looks more like a trendy bar when you walk in the door. It's dimly lit, with a very rectangular shape emphasized by the blocky rectangles of art on the walls, seating down the left, and a moderately sized bar along the right wall, with black curtains at the front and back. One immediately notices a strange discrepancy in seating - normal, dark tables and chairs in the back left, similarly styled dark stools and high tables front and center, and very low tables with fuzzy ottomans adjacent to the front windows that look as though they'd be trouble for anyone more than 4 feet tall. You'll also notice a jukebox, which has one of the more entertaining collections of music I've seen - everything from The Cars, to Johnny Cash, Radiohead, to a number of Spanish/Latin looking titles I didn't recognize. If you're there on a night with one (or even two, if you're as lucky as we were) large parties, you'll also notice the disadvantage of the hard, reflective walls - the restaurant is LOUD. Not painfully so, perhaps, but then I'm in a rock band and who knows how much hearing I've got left. But there were definately times when it was hard to carry on a conversation.
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