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Pizza place emphasizes farm to table dining
February 14, 2010, Culver City, CA – The new California restaurant Pitfire Artisan Pizza demonstrates the benefits of bringing the outside inside, as guests enjoy their meals on a patio in an edible garden. As guests enter the space, they find a 30 seat patio equipped with an olive grove and edible garden, featuring tomatoes and herbs. Inside, guests will find unfinished wooden tables, a massive Carrera marble counter and a wall of beer kegs and draught lines encased in glass that lead to six to eight taps. In the dining room over-scaled industrial loading dock lights hang high above two communal tables, banquettes and an elevated area lined with booths.

"At our other locations, we have customers who dine in or take out three or four times a week," said general manager Larry Rudolph. "We want this location to become a neighbourhood hangout, whether you’re looking for an affordable choice for your entire family, a go-to lunch spot or your favorite destination to celebrate."

The menu of farmer's market driven seasonal fare is overseen by executive chef Michael Ainslie, who has worked with successful restaurateurs such as Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Rocco DiSpirito. Wood-fire oven pizza examples include organic pumpkin pizza with roasted organic pumpkin, toasted pepitas, wild greens, four cheeses and pumpkin seed oil or the green egg and ham pizza with braised chard, farm egg and smoked prosciutto.

 

 

 
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