Name: Wood-fired Korean-American pizza (Minneapolis style)
Prep time: 40 min
Total time: 24 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 350g 00 flour; 230g cool water; 1g instant yeast; 8g sea salt; 200g fresh mozzarella, torn; 100g kimchi, drained and chopped; 100g braised pork belly, sliced; 2 tbsp gochujang thinned with 1 tbsp rice vinegar; 1 tbsp sesame seeds, 2 scallions sliced; Olive oil, to drizzle

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 Pizza

linden-hills · 5557 Xerxes Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55410

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.

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Pizzeria Lola ★ 4.6