"Los Angeles is home to many destination pizzerias, but few can be classified as a true slice joint — a place, by East Coast definition, that slings affordable slices plus canned or bottled drinks with limited seating from which to enjoy them. Shins, a hunter-green sliver of a restaurant in Cypress Park, fits the bill but also elevates it. Here, you will get sturdy, blistered slices (or whole pies for the more hungry) heated to order. You will eat at tiny red tables outside its doors or on a milk crate when seats run out. Shins’ mortadella slice — pulled from a white pie slathered with garlicky ricotta sauce and draped with frisbee-sized rounds of fat-pocked mortadella — is the showstopper. Even the gluten-intolerant can partake: Executive chef Melissa López slings a mean gluten-free pie whose dough is made from a Caputo flour blend, plus millet and quinoa ground on-site, and then fermented to create a slightly tangy, earthy, satisfying crust that holds its texture and golden color. 1215 1/2 Cypress Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90065." - Eater Staff
