WHY Superb salads (try the Humble Salad, a romaine wedge with bacon, goat cheese and roma tomatoes, or the ‘The’ salad, said to induce labor in pregnant women) and Caioti’s rightly famed individual pizza; don’t forget to order some garlic rolls, too.

WHAT Ed LaDou may have shuffled off this mortal coil, but the California pizza he invented (that’s right, it was LaDou, not Puck) lives on in this casual, noisy café. Fun, affordable and delicious.

WHO Valley families sharing salads and pizzas.