Find Bosnian Pizza at Sofra Urbana in Fountain Valley Orange County | Eater LA

"Set near the back corner of a shopping plaza anchored by an Aldi and sandwiched between a hair salon and a physical therapy office, I discovered a Bosnian-owned spot that since opening in 2017 has been introducing the East Coast tradition of pairing flaky bureks with pizza to Southern California. Owners Ervin Šabović and Adnan Silajdžić—Šabović having grown up working in his family’s restaurants in Slovenia and Bosnia, leaving for Vienna during the Yugoslav Wars and later settling in the U.S.—built the menu around Balkan classics: the highlight is the pastry Turks call börek and Bosnians call burek (meat-only), while similar versions stuffed with cheese are sirnica and zeljanica contains spinach and cheese; all three are served with a refreshing cucumber-yogurt dip, and the team points out that bureks cook perfectly well in a standard American pizza oven. Šabović’s signature ćevapi are caseless halal beef sausages tucked into freshly baked Bosnian lepinje and offered with customers’ choice about raw onions plus kajmak (whipped cheese) and ajvar (thick red pepper sauce); pljeskavica offers similar flavors in a burger form. Cheese also plays an important role on the pizzas: homemade kajmak tops the Balkan Special pie, and the house Sofra Urbana pizza—created in-shop—is finished with thin slices of suho meso (Bosnian dried “smoked beef prosciutto”), mushrooms, Buffalo mozzarella, fresh arugula, and Parmesan shards. I finished the meal with thick Bosnian coffee served in a traditional metal set and chewy rahat lokum; expansion plans the owners hoped to pursue before the pandemic are on hold for now." - Jared Cohee