"Here’s a bit of good news in a sea of recent restaurant closures around Los Angeles: Dough Box, the Eastside deep dish pizza spot in El Sereno, is reopening, and it’s all thanks to one very enthusiastic fan of the restaurant. New owner Andy Mueller is set to reopen Dough Box to the public next Thursday evening, having taken the reins from former owner Alex Gonzalez late last year. Gonzalez saw the growth of Dough Box from an upstart deep dish destination operating out of a semi-private kitchen space in East LA to its standalone space in El Sereno back in 2017. At the time, Gonzalez and her team were trading on the media success and fan accolades from their first cloud kitchen to turn this sleepy stretch of Eastern Avenue into a destination for slices and Chicago-style pizzas. But after years of making a go of it, she closed up shop in late 2019 to go back to school. A shaky lease agreement at their building and the usual burdens of growing a small business had caught up with her and, as she told Eater, it was time to move on." - Farley Elliott
