The Restaurant Guys' Regulars

Daniel Holzman Brings NYC Pizza to the West Coast

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The Banter

The Guys are stoked about The Restaurant Guys LIVE with Rocco DiSpirito taking place at the theater next door on March 14, 2025! In other earth-shattering news, Francis changes his mind.

The Conversation

The Restaurant Guys welcome pizza pioneer Daniel Holzman who was determined to bring NYC slices to LA. They discuss some of the challenges and joys of great pizza and why Daniel wants to share that with California. 

The Inside Track

The Guys and Daniel, co-host of On the Line, talk about the loss of food journalism and how a quality podcast can help fill that void.

“You start to see the breakdown of information that is actually useful to people, which for me is the biggest sadness. I think (the podcast) definitely plays a useful and realistically a positive role in society, which is a nice place to start if you're going to think about adding something to the already overcrowded conversation,” Daniel Holzman on The Restaurant Guys Podcast 2025

Bio

Daniel started his cooking career at the age of 15 at the elite Le Bernardin in New York City and remained there for four years until,he attended the Culinary Institute of America. 

In 2010, Daniel co-founded The Meatball Shop in New York City. Five more locations of The Meatball Shop opened in NYC.

He moved to LA in 2019 to embark on a new passion, pizza, and opened Danny Boy's Famous Original in 2021. He opened his second location of Danny Boy's summer 2024, and has his plans for a third.

He is the co-author of Food IQ: 100 Questions, Answers, and Recipes to Raise Your Cooking Smarts, released in 2022, He also co-authored The Meatball Shop Cookbook, published in 2011.

He is a co-host of On the Line podcast with Amanda Freitag. 

Info

Danny Boy’s Famous Original Pizza

https://www.dannyboysfamousoriginalpizza.com/


Link to On the Line podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-line/id1739016869

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