A Huge New Pizza Festival Is Set to Slice Up Downtown LA Next Month – Eater LA
A Huge New Pizza Festival Is Set to Slice Up Downtown LA Next Month – Eater LA
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CensoryDeprivation
>One day tickets to Pizza City Fest start at $95 for general admission
I can buy 4-5 pizzas from all these places for that much. Am I wrong for thinking that’s a wild price for what would end up being a 30-45 minute wait for 4 slices of pizza over a day in downtown, or am I just cheap?
idk_wtf_im_hodling
That price is a hard no for me. For that price i can get a cocktail and an excellent steak somewhere.
jlopez1017
Damn I was really excited until I saw the price.
Thats_So_Ravenous
There was something like this in NYC a while back. They grossly underestimated interest and people ended up getting about one slice each after hours of waiting.
My least favorite part of food in LA (and I guess food in any major city nowadays) is the insufferable push to upscale cheap food and make it financially inaccessible. Nobody in the world should ever have to spend $100 on pizza for one person. Not to be dramatic, but I hope this fails spectacularly and the organizers’ cars get repossessed.
bce13
I’m on an important mission to try all the many great pizza places Redditors have suggested. This festival is a hard pass.
mizzzikey
I paid like $60 something for taqueando fest a couple years back and thought it was worth it. It was ayce and they had huge list of vendors so waiting wasn’t an issue. I’m hoping Bill Esparza brings it back one day.
carlitos-guey
that sounds like a terrible time. anything to be able to tag yourself at a “cool” event, I guess.
Granadafan
As I’ve gotten older, I’m less tolerant of these festivals where you pay A LOT to stand in long lines and get a bit of food. Then there are rarely enough places to sit. I love pizza though.
alsoyoshi
Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever attend an “inaugural” food festival. Let others take that grenade, it almost always ends badly, usually very badly. Especially for a price like that.
chickybabe332
I remember attending 626 night market in 2015 and it was like $5 to get in, and while it was certainly crowded, the food options were great and affordable, it really did feel like a great experience and a chance to try a bunch of different things and have a fun time hanging out. I last went in 2018 and it was awful. Huge lines and food options were shit and way expensive and all the same. And a ton of non-Asian options. I’ve not gone back and don’t think I will unless it goes back to its old days.
981flacht6
The price is a huge rip off. There’s also no way all these pizzerias can make their pizzas as well as they do in their own kitchens.
It’s also not a full size slice it’s some “festival size” so you can actually try enough. They did say there will be complimentary drinks but who knows how much they’re actually going to give you. 1 drink? 2 drinks?
BigStrongCiderGuy
Btw that pic in the article is dtown pizza and that’s what you get for like $25. Four slices of pizza.
Minotauros_Artus
At this price point, whos gonna care about your pizza once the event is over?
healthcrusade
Also, pizza is so much about the oven. It’s not like these places can move their home ovens to the event. So I wonder how close their pizzas can be to their original restaurant quality.
isanother
When tf will GOOD new haven pizza arrive… anyone who does it will be swimming in it cant we plz plz have just 1
Johnnyhammersticks_1
95$ a ticket. But alcohol is included in the price. So if you drink alcohol you could make this well worth it.
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>One day tickets to Pizza City Fest start at $95 for general admission
I can buy 4-5 pizzas from all these places for that much. Am I wrong for thinking that’s a wild price for what would end up being a 30-45 minute wait for 4 slices of pizza over a day in downtown, or am I just cheap?
That price is a hard no for me. For that price i can get a cocktail and an excellent steak somewhere.
Damn I was really excited until I saw the price.
There was something like this in NYC a while back. They grossly underestimated interest and people ended up getting about one slice each after hours of waiting.
This is it: https://ny.eater.com/2017/9/11/16290420/nyc-pizza-festival-scam
My least favorite part of food in LA (and I guess food in any major city nowadays) is the insufferable push to upscale cheap food and make it financially inaccessible. Nobody in the world should ever have to spend $100 on pizza for one person. Not to be dramatic, but I hope this fails spectacularly and the organizers’ cars get repossessed.
I’m on an important mission to try all the many great pizza places Redditors have suggested. This festival is a hard pass.
I paid like $60 something for taqueando fest a couple years back and thought it was worth it. It was ayce and they had huge list of vendors so waiting wasn’t an issue. I’m hoping Bill Esparza brings it back one day.
that sounds like a terrible time. anything to be able to tag yourself at a “cool” event, I guess.
As I’ve gotten older, I’m less tolerant of these festivals where you pay A LOT to stand in long lines and get a bit of food. Then there are rarely enough places to sit. I love pizza though.
Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever attend an “inaugural” food festival. Let others take that grenade, it almost always ends badly, usually very badly. Especially for a price like that.
I remember attending 626 night market in 2015 and it was like $5 to get in, and while it was certainly crowded, the food options were great and affordable, it really did feel like a great experience and a chance to try a bunch of different things and have a fun time hanging out. I last went in 2018 and it was awful. Huge lines and food options were shit and way expensive and all the same. And a ton of non-Asian options. I’ve not gone back and don’t think I will unless it goes back to its old days.
The price is a huge rip off. There’s also no way all these pizzerias can make their pizzas as well as they do in their own kitchens.
It’s also not a full size slice it’s some “festival size” so you can actually try enough. They did say there will be complimentary drinks but who knows how much they’re actually going to give you. 1 drink? 2 drinks?
Btw that pic in the article is dtown pizza and that’s what you get for like $25. Four slices of pizza.
At this price point, whos gonna care about your pizza once the event is over?
Also, pizza is so much about the oven. It’s not like these places can move their home ovens to the event. So I wonder how close their pizzas can be to their original restaurant quality.
When tf will GOOD new haven pizza arrive… anyone who does it will be swimming in it cant we plz plz have just 1
95$ a ticket. But alcohol is included in the price. So if you drink alcohol you could make this well worth it.