Ann Kim's wood-fired pizza takes the Neapolitan blueprint (90 seconds at 800F on thin sourdough) and layers Korean-influenced toppings: gochujang, kimchi, sesame, braised pork belly.

Chef Ann Kim opened Pizzeria Lola in Linden Hills in 2010 and ran Young Joni in Northeast from 2016 to September 2025, then earned the James Beard Best Chef Midwest award in 2019, the first Korean-American to win that category. Her La Parisienne wood-fired pie with prosciutto, cream and arugula sat next to korean fried-chicken pies on the same menu, and the formula spread across the Twin Cities. Wood-fired pizza in Minneapolis now reads as the Ann Kim style: thin Neapolitan crust, Asian-influenced toppings, run hot. Pizzeria Lola carries the lineage.

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Pizzeria Lola ★ 4.6

$$Wood-fired PizzaLinden Hills

Ann Kim's Pizzeria Lola on Xerxes Avenue has run wood-fired Neapolitan-Korean pizza in Minneapolis since 2010. The room that put Kim on the James Beard track.

OrderThe Lady ZaZa pizza with Korean sausage and kimchi or the wood-fired Margherita.

TipReservations on Tock; walk-ins go on the list at 17:00. The photo-booth dating from 2010 still works.

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