Blackbird Pizza Shop - Los Angeles

Customer service is great and food is yummy. Great beer options and prices as well. I will definitely come over again.Food: 5/5

So to begin, it has been years since I had a Chicago style deep dish pizza to the point where I wouldn’t have a real experience to compare this to. The way I really came to this place was with doubts that I or my company would enjoy the Chicago style deep dish. Well I am here to tell you that if you know ANY nay-sayers of the Chicago deep dish take them to blackbird. They will become believers.Today I was served by Symphony and Voylkev. Symphony was very attentive to our needs and very sweet, I would have tipped her more but I’m a bit short on money at the moment. Voylkev was working the bar and was a chill personality that was also kind. I’m not sure if Voylkev is how you spell it, he’s been 1 month in the states having come from Ukraine.So today we came during happy hour and had an IPA, a glass of wine, 2 personal deep dish pizzas, and a plate of hot wings.I chose the 10% IPA and it tasted as strong as it should, if you want a drink to get buzz going fast there’s your choice. The glass of wine was a red that started with a C and it was rich and smooth.The plate of wings came with 10 bone in Buffalo wings, some celery sticks, and a cup of blue cheese. The Buffalo wings were great but were definitely spicier than your average Buffalo wings. Keep the blue cheese or the celery stalks handy.The two pizzas we got were the Mary’s Chicken and the Balls Deep. Both were excellent. The sauce in both were moist and flavorful, there was plenty of cheese, and the crust was quite literally perfect. Very crunchy while providing a strong structure whenever you grabbed a slice. Specifically, the Mary’s chicken had a pesto sauce that combo’d deliciously with the tomato sauce. The chicken also made everything even juicier in just the right way. Meanwhile the Balls Deep has the same basis but instead of adding pesto or chicken, it adds thick meatballs in case you want something more filling.For prices, I think all the regular prices are great especially since the personal pizza actually is enough for 1 person. So to have happy hour prices, blackbird is an even sweeter deal that anyone wanting to try Chicago style should consider.

I thought the pizza here was delicious and would highly recommend it for those who like deep dish. We had the Spicy Italian pizza. I loved it and found it to have a nice smoky flavor, but my friend was not a fan of the pepperoncini since it adds a pickled taste to the pizza. I would say it is tastier than Masa and Hollywood Pies, but my friend found Gino’s East in the valley better. I sure wish we could get Lou Malnati’s in LA though!

The food is good but for two small pizzas and two drinks, we were shocked to get a bill of $90. While it’s not stated on the menu, each ingredient picked for a custom pizza is $2.50. Even garlic or basil. I mean…$2.50 for garlic? Even inflation can’t account for that. We won’t be able to go again. Not in our budget for pizza.Food: 5/5

I was so excited to try their deep dish pizzas, but since I was short on time I got a regular/thin crust pie. I heard so many good things about their pizzas but was a little disappointed by how salty our pie was still good though! They have outside seating, but depending on the time of day it can get very hot even with the umbrellas. We were asked to move to a side table (for two, instead of one of the four seaters even though they were all empty and remained empty the entire time we were there so one of our arms each were in the sun I got a nice tan on that arm. :