The food truck. Long associated with inexpensive sandwiches, tacos, ice cream and funnel cakes, it is an ingrained part of the American experience. Consumers don’t expect, however, to visit a food truck and get gourmet cuisine. Los Angeles’ Urban Oven is changing that concept. The one-of-a-kind wood-fired oven on wheels is now navigating the LA streets, bringing restaurant-quality pies to passers-by.

Urban Oven’s pizzas are fashioned after owner Scott Tremonti’s Italian heritage and his time living near the world-renowned Pizzaria Bianco in Phoenix. Tremonti developed his own recipe for Napoli style pizza and the perfect dough. After finding success with the Urban Oven pizzeria, he took to LA’s streets with the pizza truck.

Urban Oven’s sour-dough crust serves as a canvas for only the highest quality organic ingredients—all locally produced—such as Mole salumi, mushrooms, thyme, Brussels sprouts, apple-wood smoked bacon, dates, Poblano peppers. The pizzas are then placed in the truck’s 800-degree almond wood-fired ovens, rotating continuously for several minutes until perfectly baked.

[Images via Facebook/TheUrbanOven]