{"id":81752,"date":"2025-12-04T20:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/81752\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T20:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:23:08","slug":"wildcrust-review-highland-parks-charming-sourdough-pizzeria-sets-a-new-standard-for-wood-fired-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/81752\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildcrust Review: Highland Park\u2019s Charming Sourdough Pizzeria Sets a New Standard for Wood-Fired Cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Before operating a pandemic pizza pop-up in his mother\u2019s Mar Vista backyard, chef Miles Okabayashi built his skill sets in some notable kitchens, including R\u00e9publique and New York\u2019s Perry Street. Less than four years later, he partnered with his brother, Sam, and sister-in-law, Jean Okabayashi, to debut <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/venue\/112192\/wildcrust\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wildcrust<\/a> in Highland Park. It\u2019s a stylish, midcentury-esque, comfy spot on the edge of the neighborhood, where the soft-spoken chef slings some of Northeast Los Angeles\u2019s best pizzas, ranging from traditional to adventurous, and uses a wood-fired grill for mains like whole branzino with a shiitake beurre blanc \u2014 best paired with wines curated from small producers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">The restaurant\u2019s large windows, patio, and lighting are some of its best assets. The southwest-facing room requires grabbing a reservation time when you can watch the California sky seep from day to night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before operating a pandemic pizza pop-up in his mother\u2019s Mar Vista backyard, chef Miles Okabayashi built his skill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28829,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-81752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-dining-reports","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}