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Mozza, this cozy crowded restaurant offers up some rather large flavors. I’ve been craving wood fire pizza and just needed to try this new PCH restaurant and finally called to make reservations…two weeks in advance. Mozza offers a completely open dining area encased by two bars; one for wines and one seating. Your placed front row to the half-moon shaped open pizza oven where pizza chefs create masterpieces. The menu is simple, pizza being the center of the list. Stars like in-house fennel sausage and uncommon ingredients like squash blossoms and Fresno chiles begged me to ask the waiter for a recommendation. We first start with the Mozza Caprese, freshly made mozzarella garnished with pesto and cherry vine tomatos…heavenly. We almost ordered another it was so delicious. For our main course my date orders the fennel sausage with panna, red onion & scallions and I couldn’t resist the Bianca, a fontina, mozzarella, sottocenere & sage pizza. The pizzas come out crisp, thin and spotted with char..yum. Each slice covers your fingers in flour dust giving you the all time wood fire feel. I decided to take half my pizza home, for the Laker game, and to save room for dessert. Which I boldly picked to be chocolate whiskey cake with house made whipped cream. I was already too full by the time the cake came, but my date, whose not really a chocolate lover, fell in love with the whipped cream and ended up eating almost the entire thing. We left perfectly satisfied and beaming we found a new place we can always count on for good food.