One of L.A.’s best pizzerias expands to Chinatown, and it’s a tribute to the Dodgers

The walls are coated in memorabilia: ticket stubs, childhood photos at the baseball stadium, trading cards, the framed sheet music to Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” For La Sorted’s first sit-down pizzeria, owner Tommy Brockert knew he wanted to build not only a space where diners could sit down to enjoy his hybrid-sourdough pies but a place to bask in Dodgers history, especially considering the location mere blocks from the stadium. “I think I’ve somehow managed, through a window, to get people to feel what my food is about,” Brockert said, “but it’s important for me that people should be able to feel my world.” Now, surrounded by vintage scorecards, bobbleheads and other Dodgers trinkets, he’s serving a more pared-down menu of pizzas than in Silver Lake, along with new items he hopes guests will also take to Dodger games: custom-blend hot dogs and a fried mortadella sandwich among them. At the base is a new rendition of 3SL’s modern Tokyo restaurant Rokusho: Here, Sushi by Scratch alum Carlos Couts serves grilled skewers; hand rolls; crispy rice in the form of a shareable “sushi cake” piled with uni, Wagyu, gold leaf, caviar and shiso; and sukiyaki plated almost as if it were abstract art, splattered with Japanese Hollandaise and ginger oil. Luv2Eat Express is open daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. 6660 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, instagram.com/luv2eat.thaibistro Sonoratown’s Long Beach location, the largest yet, serves the local chain’s signature Sonora-style tacos, chivis and caramelos all made with fresh flour tortillas.