Los Angeles CA: Osteria Mozza

We’re not used to taking pictures when eating out, and would only remember half way through the meal.  We made sure to remember when we went to Osteria Mozza to celebrate a friend’s birthday.  We knew about this restaurant for a while, but only decided to go after watching Chef’s Table episode featuring chef Nancy Silverton on Netflix.

Osteria Mozza is famous for their mozzarella bar, and when our server told us that they had a special burrata from Puglia, Italy (only a few left), we had to quickly place our order (we joked that the server probably said that to all the tables), along with some grilled octopus.

The restaurant is also famous for its pasta, and we tried three dishes from their primi menu: tagliatelle with oxtail ragu, orecchiette with sausage and Swiss chard, and sweet corn cappellacci with mushrooms.  For the main courses, we got the pork shank and orata (fish), with a side of Jimmy Nardello peppers.

Our friend is not a fan of desserts, but since our server told us the pastry chef won the James Beard Outstanding Pastry Chef last year, we had no choice but to order three desserts (plus a complimentary birthday ice cream):  rosemary olive oil cakes with olive oil gelato, melon sorbet with mixed berries, and watermelon lime sorbet.  We forgot to take a picture of the desserts when they first came out, so everything looked half eaten in the picture below (expect more of these kinds of picture in the future).  Everything was really good.

Osteria Mozza
6602 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles, CA