At your event, you'll work with Mom and Pop, whom you will know as Jen and Scott, as well as our daughter Evie. For a really big event, we may call in a granny or two.

What we all share is a passion for putting on a great event. So when you invite La Fortuna to help with your party, promotion, or celebration, you'll be part of the family, too. Our family is tight-knit, and La Fortuna is a way for us to work together to pursue our passions: cooking, local foods, and lifelong learning.

In our family, we have great respect for food and what it takes to produce it. That's why we cultivate relationships with food producers, and we maintain those relationships face-to-face whenever we can. If you have farmers you choose to support, we're happy to try to accommodate your requests. Chances are we know them already, and if not, we'll be glad to develop a relationship with them.

The Name

We got our name because some years ago, Jen had a dream about food. The dream was so vivid and the food so delicious that when she woke and realized that it was not real, she cried. To be fair, she was experiencing the sleep deprivation that comes with having a young baby in the house. In her dream, the food came from a bakery called La Fortuna.

Some time later, Scott did a bit of sneaking around and surprised her with breakfast in bed—the very food from the dream! This was a lesson in the power of serving the right food in the right context.

When we decided to go into business sharing our love of wood-fired pizza with the community, there was no question that it would be called La Fortuna. It is, after all, the food of your dreams.

We live in a time of celebrity chefs and ever more pretentious talk about food, but that's not our game. We just want to come to your party and make you some great pizza so you and your friends, family, or colleagues can have a great time. We'll get to know each other, and hopefully we'll all learn a bit from one another.