An Orange County restauranter has won 5th place in the United States’ largest pizza competition held in Las Vegas in March.
Pizzaiolo Landon Pietrini of Los Alamitos’ Pietrini Pizza Napoletana restaurant took home the award for his Margherita Pizza competing against 71 other chefs in his division at the STG Neapolitan Pizza Competition March 30.
“I think I was more nervous about the strict competition guidelines than anything else,” Pietrini joyfully recalled recently to The Epoch Times while kneading pizza dough on the restaurant’s white marble countertops.
A pizza made by Landon Pietrini and his father Gene Pietrini, in Seal Beach, Calif., on Sept. 19, 2020. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)
Pietrini’s now award-winning pizza took longer than most to get jury-ready….