Fiorelli Pizza, a top-tier wood-fired pizzeria, is seeking a new permanent brick-and-mortar space in Venice for its concept.
Veteran chef Michael Fiorelli and his partner, Liz Gutierrez, have had their concept live in the Cook’s Garden in Venice for the past year and have established strong roots in the community. However, Fiorelli Pizza will need to relocate by the end of the year, as the site is set to be developed into a hotel. They will continue to operate at their current location Wednesday through Sunday from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. until an as-yet-undisclosed date in September, according to Eater Los Angeles. Fiorelli has told What Now Los Angeles that the couple hopes to find a permanent location for Fiorelli Pizza in Venice.
Fiorelli Pizza offers an innovative way to enjoy outdoor dining that requires no reservations, fancy table settings, or unnecessary fuss—just a wood-fired pizza oven and fresh, local ingredients. This concept provides a casual yet elevated outdoor dining experience, serving restaurant-quality dishes without the confines of a traditional restaurant. Drawing inspiration from Neapolitan and New York-style pizzas, Fiorelli combines elements to create a unique hybrid exclusive to The Cook’s Garden. The need for a brick-and-mortar proves the concept is beginning to outgrow the founder’s original idea of opening as a pop-up.
“When restaurant colleagues turned friends Michael Fiorelli and Liz Gutierrez decided to start a culinary project of their own, they wanted to find a way to offer a restaurant quality experience without the constraints of a brick-and-mortar space,” according to the company’s website. “The passionate pizza connoisseurs eventually came up with Fiorelli Pizza at The Cook’s Garden in Venice — a fully mobile pizza oven operation with all the makings of a full-service restaurant (locally sourced ingredients, proprietary pizza dough and sauce recipes, state-of-the-art equipment and a small but mighty team of hard workers and go-getters), but none of the limitations. The result is a dining experience that is truly one-of-a-kind.”
