SoCal Pizza Week Kicks Off: A Culinary Showcase of Diverse Pizzas and Restaurants

Inaugural SoCal Pizza Week

• 🍕 SoCal Pizza Week is launching for the first time, celebrating the diverse pizza options available across Southern California.
• 🗓️ The event begins on Sunday and runs until February 15th, 2026.

Nardo Italian Restaurant Highlights

• 🇮🇹 Nardo Italian Restaurant in Huntington Beach is participating, offering special pizzas for the event.
• 🌶️ Featured pizzas include a spicy chorizo porcini mushroom and a mushroom with lemon chives and pecorino cream.
• 🧀 Other menu items include a classic margarita, a specialty pizza with ricotta-filled crust, homemade pastas, lasagna, and appetizers like borrata with fig jam and potato croquettes.

Ria Pizzeria's Detroit Style Offerings

• 🏙️ Ria Pizzeria, also in Huntington Beach, specializes in Detroit-style pizza, using a sourdough starter passed down through generations.
• 🌶️ Popular pizzas include 'The Elliot' (double pepperoni), 'Queen Bee' (goat cheese, prosciutto, fig jam, honey drizzle), and a 'signature sampler' or 'pizza flight' featuring various unique combinations.
• 🥒 A notable offering is the pickle pizza, which has become a surprising bestseller.
• 💰 Ria Pizzeria is offering special deals for Pizza Week: a personal pizza and soda for $10, an original pizza and garlic knots for $20, or an original pizza, full dozen garlic knots, and parfait for $30.

Beachwood Pizza and Beer's Unique Approach

• 🍺 Beachwood Pizza and Beer focuses on sourdough pizza, milling their flour in-house and using a curated water profile and beer culture for their dough.
• 🌮 Their Pizza Week special is 'The Final Render,' featuring carnitas, avocado salsa, pickled onions, and cheeses.
• 🌶️ Other unique pizzas include 'Jessica Rabbit' (spicy soppressata, honey, Calabrian chilis) and 'Garden Shed' (spinach cream, pancetta, chili crunch).
• 🥪 They also offer a fresh deli sando made with in-house bread.
• 🐶 Beachwood Pizza and Beer is family-friendly and even offers a dog menu with treats and ice cream.