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Finally, there’s a pizza place that makes their pizza spicy enough for the chileheads who read this blog!! This article appeared recently in the online edition of the Los Angeles Times:

Lucifers Pizza: Some like it hot

By Jessica Gelt
December 22, 2008

Something wicked this way comes. Fortunately, the rough beast slouching toward Los Feliz doesn’t signal the end of times. It’s just Lucifers Pizza, a devilish spicy-pizza restaurant opened by a 27-year-old Kiwi named Adam Borich.

Located on Hillhurst’s Drakkar Noir-scented restaurant row, Lucifers cops the kind of Dark Lord-in-a-smoking-jacket vibe that many Santa Monica-based Goth clubs only dream about.

The space is small, with pitch-black walls and a long tongue of clotted-blood-colored carpet leading from the door to the counter. A wrought-iron chandelier flecked with electric candles glitters on high, illuminating a glowing-red soda fridge, a smattering of small black tables and a sprawling maroon-cushioned window seat.

A sheet of chain mail, hanging behind the counter, offers a glimpse of a kitchen lighted by a hellish fluorescent glare. There, Beelzelbub’s servants labor, kneading dough, spreading sauce, applying toppings and measuring out chili flakes.

This last bit of work is what separates Lucifers from other, mild-mannered pizza joints. Borich, 27, has an unnatural obsession with spice.

When you order a pizza at Lucifers, you have the option of making it “zero,” “medium,” “fiery” or “blazing.” The last option consists of the restaurant’s signature “ringburner” hot sauce and whole red chili peppers.

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