Take the pizza chapter, for instance. The dough alone requires at least 27 hours to make. Lett writes in the headnote that the recipe is among the simplest he’s ever worked with.

Gjelina didn’t invent kale, or wood fire, or treating vegetables as the stars of a restaurant menu. But when it opened, in Venice Beach, in 2008, the restaurant certainly did bring all of those ...

Gjelina’s slow-fermented pizza dough is the stuff of legend. ... Ivy Manning is a Portland, Oregon-based award-winning food writer and author of 10 cookbooks.

Gjelina, the reopened New York outpost of the Venice, California icon has a vegetable-forward California menu. The new Opto is Mediterranean. Both present vivid flavors.

Gjelina, the popular California pizzeria and restaurant, was open in New York for just a month before it was forced to close. Now, after a two-year delay, it’s back. So why wasn’t its ...

Diners order at Gjelina Take Away in Venice in April 2023. Matthew Kang Cathy Chaplin is a senior editor at Eater LA, a James Beard Award–nominated journalist, and the author of Food Lovers ...

Gjelina. It’s been going on seven years since the team at the Gjelina Group in Venice, ... The food is by Nate Ashton, a former chef de cuisine at Mimi in Greenwich Village.

After a five-year hiatus, Travis Lett, the chef who founded Gjelina in 2008 and left suddenly, is back in the kitchen. In the mid-2000s, Lett turned Gjelina, a dark moody enclave on Abbot Kinney ...

Gjelina, led by founder Fran Camaj, is a unicorn of an L.A. destination that’s influenced its city’s scenester-chic culinary scene more than any food truck, Erewhon smoothie or Gwyneth Paltrow ...

Travis Lett, the chef who founded some of the city’s most defining restaurants, left his Gjusta and Gjelina restaurant group in 2019. This month, he returned to the restaurant world with a new ...

Two major big city restaurants are moving in from each coast: New York’s Cote Korean Steakhouse and Los Angeles’ Gjelina.The Venetian Resort will be home to the two new restaurants, adding to ...