On Friday (Nov. 7), Bogdan Mocanu made his last pizza at Dolce Vita, the St. Charles Avenue wood-fired pizzeria he opened last fall. Dolce Vita will continue, but Mocanu needed a break. "There's ...

Bogdan Mocanu's Dolce Vita Wood Fired Pizzeria began as a Baton Rouge truck with a wood-burning oven on an attached trailer. That unusual venture is only one of the odd episodes in the biography of ...

Bogdan Mocanu throws his Neapololitan-style pizza in the air before it goes into the wood fired oven at his new restaurant, Dolce Vita, on Tuesday, November 12, 2013. Mocanu made a name for himself in ...