Valley pizza lovers, prepare yourselves: Pizzana opens Thursday, May 5 in Sherman Oaks. The star Brentwood restaurant and Michelin Bib Gourmand award recipient lands right along Ventura Boulevard this week with some of the best pizza not just in Los Angeles, but perhaps even in America. Pizzana is already well known in LA slice circles, thanks to chef Daniele Uditi’s quality pies and Italian-Californian perspective.

Using slow, 48-hour fermented dough, the Naples-born Uditi turns out pies like the neo margherita with san Marzano tomatoes and fior di latte imported from Italy. There are also pizzas that play to familiar pasta flavors like a cacio e pepe with lots of cracked black pepper, and a vodka sauce pie with smoked coppa and Calabrian Chile. s menu, with beer and wine to debut soon.