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, at the suggestion of chef Eric Ripert, he attended the Culinary Institute of America. He then accepted a position at the soon-to-open Palladin in New York City under chef Jean-Louis Palladin and worked alongside such culinary notables as Wylie Dufresne and Sam Mason. He went on a 10-year culinary journey through some of the West Coast’s finest restaurants.

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

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,

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