The walls are coated in memorabilia: ticket stubs, childhood photos at the baseball stadium, trading cards, the framed sheet music to Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” For La Sorted’s first sit-down pizzeria, owner Tommy Brockert knew he wanted to build not only a space where diners could sit down to enjoy his hybrid-sourdough pies but a place to bask in Dodgers history, especially considering the location mere blocks from the stadium.
It’s equal parts ode to the city, the Dodgers and pizza. The bric-a-brac, much of it collected throughout the restaurateur’s life, is meant to help the pizzeria feel lived-in and provide a space for the city’s sports fans to watch games with a beer and a slice of some of L.A.
’s best pizza . “Compared to Midwest places or the East Coast,” he says, “you go outside of Yankee Stadium or to see the Cubs, and there’s places that’ve been there forever.” Brockert is a third-generation L.
A. Dodgers fan, tracing back even longer on his mom’s side, when his ancestors cheered the team on in Brooklyn. His love of pizza is more recent.
The photographer began cooking pizza for friends and family, then selling it out of his home during the pandemic. When its popularity grew he invested in a mobile pizza truck that began popping up around L.A.
In 2021 he debuted a walk-up pizza counter in a Silver Lake strip mall for his pies made with house-milled flour. “I think I’ve somehow managed, through a window, to get people to feel what my.