I was never really into dinner theater. One of my best friends played an Oscar-worthy Maria in Joey and Maria’s Wedding in San Diego, but like many real weddings, the food took a back seat to the cheating cousins, tipsy bridesmaids and mouthy mothers-in-law.

I attended a different type of dinnertime drama this weekend when I went to Una Pizza Napoletana. Accompanied by a friend who could reasonably be called “a connoisseur of dough”—for Christmas he gifted me a sourdough starter lovingly fermented with bacteria from his backyard—he was excited to experience what the NYC pizza legend, Anthony Mangieri, was throwing down in his new SoMa space. Read more...