Olive Wood Pizza

Ian at Olive Wood Pizza was a pleasure to deal with from the very moment we contacted him. His prices are wonderful, his food gorgeous, and booking was a cinch. He is incredibly responsive with any questions you may have, and was so flexible with us – we will definitely book with him again in the future and we tell everyone to call him for their catering needs!

I hired Olive Wood Pizza for an event that my client had in their showroom. The whole experience exceeded my expectations. Ian was very responsive and was able to work within my budget to create a dinner that I felt would please everyone. I was a little concerned about the small dinnertime window, but he assured me they would have no problem feeding 50 people in 45 minutes. He was right! The pizza came out fast and honestly it was all delicious. Normally at these kind of events there is some type of pasta buffet or something, and this was really a step up to have the pizza being freshly baked in a real pizza oven. The food got ooh’s and aah’s all night having the pizza oven lent a little more of a causal/​fun/​interactive feel to the evening.
In the end I think all of my guests got plenty to eat and all of the pizza flavors and both salads were excellent. Customer service and ease of the whole process made it a home run. I will be hiring Olive Wood Pizza again and I suggest you do as well. It would be a great idea for any corporate event… gourmet food but with a side of fun:)

This review is long overdue, so here we go. My husband (fiancé at the time) and I found Olive Wood Pizza at the Studio City Farmers Market as we were looking for catering options for our wedding. We tried the pizza and immediately were in love! Then we checked out their catering options and pricing and were even more in love. Olive Wood has great selection and is really affordable!
We reached out immediately and Ian (chef & owner) got back to us really quickly even though he was on a family vacation. Such service! Working with Ian was a breeze. He was quick to answer questions, open to providing suggestions, and super flexible with our budget and venue constraints.
It’s almost a year after our wedding and our guests are still talking about how delicious the food was. We would absolutely use Olive Wood again and would definitely recommend them for other events.

I can’t begin to tell you how impressed I was with Ian and Olive wood pizza. They came to cater our party, brought their pizza oven… on time, friendly and accommodating. A dream to work with and the pizzas were AMAZING and kept coming. All the guests were raving about how great the food was. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for everything!

Olive Wood is a fellow vendor at The Studio City Farmer’s Market, so we get to enjoy their food often. When my fiancé and I were planning our wedding, we knew immediately that we wanted Olive Wood to cater our wedding in Carpinteria, Ca. Although we never made it over to cocktail hour or the buffet area, our guests raved about the beautiful charcuterie station and said that there was plenty of food passed around. We also sampled all of the passed appetizers (meatballs, crostini, pulled pork sliders, etc) and the pizzas and salads were delicious as always, brought directly to our sweetheart table. Ian graciously accommodated our vegan guests by providing them fresh dairy free pizzas, which they loved. Thank you to Ian and his staff for the wonderful food… everyone could not stop telling us how good it was!

I would give them 6 stars! We are snobby foodies. Many of our friends are even snobbier foodies. All of us, including the non-​foodies, loved the pizzas. Loved the meatballs. They were on-​time, friendly and cleaned up. Can’t recommend them highly enough.

When hiring any food vendor for an event there are many factors besides good food that matter. Most important among those, do they make an event easier or harder. Had an event in Newport Beach and Olive Wood Pizza went out of their way to make things easy from the moment I booked to the fast and thorough clean up at the end. They showed up with plenty of time to set up and handled my party of 200 people with ease. Always had a constant supply of fresh, hot, and DELICIOUS pizza, and not one-​person walked away hungry or unsatisfied. I highly recommend Ian and his amazing team, and I can’t wait to schedule them for another event! Also, really, really great pizza. Salads were great too. But seriously, the pizza.

I recently worked with Ian and Olive Wood Pizza for a client’s wedding in Malibu. Ian was great throughout the planning process and super flexible. The day of the wedding, the staff was friendly and helpful and really set a great tone for the whole event. Not to mention how delicious the food was! The tray passed apps were all delicious, especially the meatballs. Dinner was served family style — fresh salads and an endless flow of freshly made pizzas. Amazing! Thanks Ian! — Carina — Tealight Events

I had them cater my annual Earth Day party the last 4 years. The pizza is delicious… seriously delicious…

Hired Olive Wood for a birthday party at my house last weekend. It was a HUGE hit. Their pizza is seriously amazing. Meatballs too. All of my guests were blown away and several asked for their contact info so they could hire Olive Wood for upcoming parties of their own. Highly highly recommend these guys. Wish they had a restaurant so i could eat their pizza more often!

This place is hands down the best pizza on the west coast! If you’re in the long beach area it is worth your time. Highly recommended.

We had the BEST experience with Ian and Olive Wood Pizza. We hired his company to cater my 40^th Birthday in Orange County and I’m so glad that we did. After speaking with several other mobile pizza catering companies we hired Olive Wood not only bc it was the best priced but also bc Ian was just so helpful, honest and friendly throughout the entire process.
My guests LOVED the delicious pizza, orzo salad and meatballs AND Ian’s staff was extremely friendly and accommodating.
I would absolutely hire Olive Wood Pizza again. Thanks again for helping to make my bday so great!

DELICIOUS!!! On time, very accommodating. I hired them for my boyfriends 30^th birthday party and everyone loved it! Everyone thought the set up was super cute and the pizza was delicious! We got the meatballs for an appetizer which was just as delicious as the pizza. They came and chopped up all the ingredients on site. So fresh! I couldn’t have wished for more! Excellent service!

My girlfriend and I tried Olive Wood pizza in long beach for the first time at the farmers market! We ordered a pepperoni, sausage, and caramelized onions! The ingredients tasted really fresh and amazing! We are thinking about getting them to cater our next party. Definitely try their pizza next time you see them at a farmers market.

Best pizza ever! Ian and his staff is awesome. They were really professional and provided the best service.

Olive Wood provided a fantastic pizza dinner for about 50 guests at my wife’s recent surprise birthday party. Ian was great to work with during the planning process. The crew showed up at our house on time, set up quickly, and served up excellent pizzas for our guests. Our friends and family are still commenting on what a unique experience it was to have the pizza oven serving such great food. I recommend Olive Wood Pizza without reservation.

I shot a wedding in the OC in 2014 where Olive Wood Pizza was hired to fire up yummy pizzas on their mobile oven. I have been to a lot of weddings and I am hardly impressed by the food most of the time, because most caterers have a hard time timing the cooking to perfection when they have to serve a lot of people at once. Olive Wood really shone in the perfection of their pizzas! They are these perfect pizzas with the perfect bite, and all the salads were amazing. What’s even better? Their staff are super friendly and smiled at other vendors like me. I got close to their work area to take some pictures and not only did they not shoo me away, they were super helpful and just worked with me professionally.
They are super fast in making pizzas and serving them at the perfect pace – so that none of their pizzas had a chance to get cold by sitting around for too long, and no one had to wait. I don’t know how they do this but they are amazing!
I can’t possibly recommend them more!

I hired olive wood pizza to cater my wedding and it was one of the best wedding planning decisions I made! Guests are still raving about how delicious the pizza and salads were. Ian was incredible to work with and did his best to accommodate us in every way he could. The setup was really unique and organized and the food was DELICIOUS! If you want a unique caterer for your next event, olive wood pizza is it!

If you’re planning a wedding and want to have non-​traditional wedding food that your guests will absolutely LOVE, then you should seriously consider hiring Ian and his team at Olive Wood Pizza as your caterers! My husband and I were just married in Topanga Canyon on 7÷12÷14 could not be happier with the way the food turned out for our wedding. First of all, Ian is so easy to work with! He answered every question we had and offered useful tips on how to make our event run smoothly. He’s also totally open to customizing the menu for you. Out of 120 guests, we had quite a few Vegans, so we asked Ian if he could make a soy-​chorizo (specifically the soyrizo from Trader Joe’s), garlic, caramelized onion pizza. It was no problem for him and a huge hit even to the non-​Vegan guests! The other two pizzas, the two side salads, and the three appetizers turned out better than we could have imagined – my favorite was the bacon & blue cheese pizza :)
A week later, our wedding guests are still talking about the food! And I’m drooling writing this. Thanks, Ian, for your fantastic service and awesome food! Highly recommended!

This is my new favorite pizza in LA. The crust is smokey and slightly crisp, the toppings are insanely fresh, the sauce had the ideal amount of salt with low acidity. Somehow the basil here tastes better than any other place I’ve tried. Its finished with a great olive oil that just seals the deal!
Mushroom and olive pizza 8.50 — WORTH IT. Forget your diet. INDULGE. Kalamata unpitted olives, raw white button mushrooms, not too much mozzarella. The center gets a bit soggy from the vegs but not much. As a texture freak, it did not bother me at all. Use a knife and fork or roll it NY style and imbibe.
It’s a personalized pizza. I thought I’d share it but I ate the whole thing! Get your own! I gobbled a slice as soon as it was in my greedy hands. Gooey cheese, thin crust, crisp edges. Best eaten warm! I drove home and an hour later I popped the last pieces in the microwave and it was just as heavenly. You lose the crunch but it doesn’t get very soggy on the bottom. I could still pick it up with my hands and eat it.
I saw these guys at Fullerton farmers market (Thursday evenings). The farmers market itself is an event worth going but make sure you get your pie! They take cards so no need to worry about having cash.
For Fullerton locals it differs from Fuoco by class but it’s on the same level. Fuoco is more gourmet, Olive is pedestrian. Think umami burger vs one you’d grill in your own backyard. Both are good but one offers familiarity, comfort and is cheaper! Fuoco crust is chewier and saltier but I thought Olive’s crust has more depth of flavor. I like how Fuoco browns their mushroom but Olive has a better red sauce. Also that drizzle of olive oil to finish is just money. Bravo Olive! This pizza reminds me of DiFara’s pizza in NYC but DiFara’s crust is insane. Still #1 Difara!