Pizza Buona

Since 1959, this family has been serving old school Italian meals to LA with a lot of heart. Pizza Buona, 2100 Sunset Blvd, LA CA 213-413-0800, sits on the southwest corner of Alvarado and Sunset with a clear shot of the American Apparrel ad that Jose Lopez calls "soft porn". Lunch with Jose is a lot of fun. "That was a lot of carbs!!!" I have friends that love this place and other friends who don't think much of it. The pizza is that chunks of cheese type pizza with a lot of oil seeping between the cheese layer and tomato sauce. It's not your thin crust pizza nor is it your deep dish type but a dimension between the two worlds. I will say that I really enjoyed my salad with italian dressing and the eggplant sandwhich. The eggplant was fried thin and the bread was meaty. The service is family-style through and through. But if you can go with Jose so that you can laugh in between each bite, that would be highly reccomended.