pizza

Becky reviews local restaurants with gluten-free menus, most recently Bella Luna in Jamaica Plain, whose pizza she found OK, but not really worth the trip from downtown, especially since the cook refused to let her have the soy cheese:

Do you really trust a place that thinks all things soy aren't gluten free just because soy sauce is made with wheat? I certainly don't.

We hear Stone Hearth Pizza opened this week in Barry's Corner and despite predictions from the Allston Civic Association, has failed to turn the area into a steaming pile of rubble, and that even people who are not fans of Duff Beer have eaten there.

More important, think the Boston Licensing Board could sink its teeth into the idea? On Wednesday, the board hears a request from Sun Pizza, 46-56 Washington St., to extend its walk-in closing time from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. and to let it deliver pizzas to the neighborhood up to 4 a.m.

The board's hearings begin at 10 a.m. in Rm. 801 in City Hall.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Tony's Pizzeria on Fairmount Avenue stay open until 2 a.m. and to give the owner of the planned Drifter Restaurant on Hyde Park serve food until 1 a.m.

City officials, however, opposed the late hours at both establishments.