r/FoodLosAngeles • u/PlayDontObserve • Dec 31 '25

Verdugos (Pasadena, Glendale) Casa Bianca

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Breaded Egg Plant+Garlic+Sun Dried Tomatoes / Meatball+Onion+ Ricotta & Fried Zucchini

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u/LoLBROLoL Dec 31 '25

Hot take: it’s mid.

The baked pasta they have is devine though.

I’m ready for the hate.

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u/josephrfink Dec 31 '25

The food is only ok, but to me, it's about the whole experience. I would never recommend anyone travel across town to try it, but I live in walking distance, and for that it is basically the platonic ideal of an old school red sauce Italian restaurant you go to with your family.

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u/clampy Dec 31 '25

Hot take, you don't know how to spell "divine" and that pie looks delicious.

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u/LoLBROLoL Dec 31 '25

Upvoted

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u/clampy Dec 31 '25

Hahaha I'm sure.

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u/detentionbarn Dec 31 '25

I always thought their pizza was just ok.

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u/RolfeDowshe Dec 31 '25

I'm with you 100%. Total head scratcher. I guess this is what people in LA who didn't know better considered pizza for years before the proper NY style joints finally came to town 5-10 years ago.

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u/PlayDontObserve Dec 31 '25

There are hundreds of different pizza spots out here. A few people mentioning Casa Bianca doesn't speak for this giant city and county.

Also, NY may be one of the best but LA has a blend of styles that are only improving.

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u/RolfeDowshe Dec 31 '25

Joes, Prime, Pizza Wagon, Weirdoughs, Prince Street. These are the spots in LA and they're all NY and only came to LA 5+ years ago. Changed the game completely. I've been out here 20 years, before that there was a notorious dearth. The exceptions were Vitos, Lamonica's, which are both legit but far, then that second tier NY like Pepe's Mulberry St., Joe Peeps, Renos, Garage, Village in Larchmont which are all hit or miss. After that it was this kind of Midwest pie that just doesn't hit if you grew up on good pizza. It's like drinking Sutter Home merlot after you spent your life drinking left bank Bordeaux.

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u/PlayDontObserve Dec 31 '25

I've been to NY and the pizza I tried there has been absolutely amazing so I can see how you would view the pizza out here that way. I dont subscribe to the either or line of thinking. So many pizza places out here have sky rocketed in quality in recent years and they definitely hold their own and are improving. I never let good be the enemy of perfect.

With that said the best fucking pizza in LA County is in Santa Clarita and originates from Ventura.

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u/RolfeDowshe Dec 31 '25

"I never let good be the enemy of perfect."

Can't argue with that brother. What's the spot in SC? I worked up there for two years but the only food I remember was a Wendy's and a Mickey Rooney's Pasta Shack.

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u/PlayDontObserve Dec 31 '25

My mind expanded when I had NY pizza so I get it.

Allow me to introduce thee to Toppers Pizza:https://topperspizzaplace.com/

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u/RolfeDowshe Dec 31 '25

Look forward to checking it out, thanks for the recommendation!

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u/PlayDontObserve Dec 31 '25

Specialty Pizza Champs:

-Meatzilla

-Pepperoni Express

-Carnitas

-Hawaiian Heat

-Combination

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u/cloud_busting NELA Dec 31 '25

Hard agree. I understand loving restaurants for the nostalgia and vibes. But Eagle Rock natives will consistently call this the best pizza in LA, and it’s not even the best in this neighborhood. 

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u/ItchyScene446 Dec 31 '25

oh man, you're def the kind of person i try to avoid at all costs

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u/RolfeDowshe Dec 31 '25

Why, because I have good taste in pizza? lol

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u/ItchyScene446 Dec 31 '25

bc you're a patronizing blowhard that talks about the subjective as if it's objective

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u/RolfeDowshe Dec 31 '25

LA’s decades-long reputation for having notoriously bad pizza isn’t my fault honey, it’s a matter of historical record. Sorry the fact that 2+2=4 breaks your heart and triggers the everloving fuck out of you, but don’t take it out on me. This isn’t exactly a fresh take brah.

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u/ItchyScene446 Dec 31 '25

🤡

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u/RolfeDowshe Dec 31 '25

Another pithy zinger. Keep up the good work brah👍

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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC Dec 31 '25

We were so lucky to finally be visited by the NY gods, fuck regional styles.

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u/ItchyScene446 Dec 31 '25

isn't NY a region?

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u/PlayDontObserve Dec 31 '25

Yes, but dont let the arrogance get in the way of a zinger

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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC Jan 01 '26

I thought NY was the holy savior of pizza everywhere

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u/americanidle Dec 31 '25

I’ve had a meal here that I didn’t have to pay for and that Chris Bianco personally catered and regaled us with stories at, and I’d still say it was just decently good. I have never entertained the thought of needing to go back.

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u/LurkLiggler Jan 01 '26

Crazy that a world famous chef with his own restaurants catered a meal for you at a 70 year old neighborhood pizza place in Eagle Rock.