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The team behind the award-winning bar Baby Gee—all-around awesome humans Daniel Flores and Gianna Johns—have taken on a restaurant on a much-loved stretch of Long Beach. The group’s collective experience includes management at Bestia and Broad Street Oyster Company, as well as opening the Los Angeles outpost of the famed New York hotel bar the NoMad.

We're talking some of the city's best pastas and pizzas next to a stellar wine list and vibe like no other.

For Waldo Stout—the man behind Waldo’s Pizza and who used to be at Marlena—his lead role at the newly minted Due Fiori represents a full-circle moment, especially as the menu has him return to an early love: dough. “Watching my mom and grandmother make these beautiful flour tortillas made me realize one significant thing,” Waldo told me in 2024. “My hands were made to touch dough.” Due Fiori represents Stout’s love of flour, kneading, and the specific alchemy that makes dough magical.

His pizzas? Hearty and Sicilian in inspiration, these cheese-cooked-the-edge rectangles are wonderfully crafted. In fact, I encourage folks to take on the Rossa Rossa as an example: Cheeseless, with nothing but sauce, salt, basil, and oregano, this serves as a prime example of why Waldo’s expertise with gluten should never be dismissed.

Written and photos by Brian Addison.

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