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# Santa Monica A slice of Heaven
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/santa-monica-a-slice-of-heaven-editor/
- Published: 2008-02-07T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T18:21:10.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Downtown, #archive-import

*By Ted Bonnitt*

Since moving to Santa Monica from New York years ago, I have longed for a good neighborhood pizza joint. With the recent opening of Joe’s Bleeker Street Pizza and now Richie Palmer’s Pizzeria (of Beverly Hills’ Mulberry Street Pizzeria) just a block apart in downtown Santa Monica, we now have the mother lode of walk-up gourmet, thin-crust New York style pizza. A joyous salute to the simple pleasures in life.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 7, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/020708.pdf?ref=smdp.com)