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I see on the Georgia Avenue listserv that a new business called RedRocks has applied for a liquor license, for what would be their brick-oven pizza restaurant and bar at 11th St and Park Rd in Columbia Heights. It would include a 'summer garden' with 25 outdoor seats.
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I ate at Red Rocks Weds. night as part of its preopening.
The food is wonderful. The pizzas are wood-fired in a specially built oven. They are very thin crusted, come with a wide array of toppings and are sized for two people to share, along with a salad or appetizer. (The mixed greens salad was very, very good.)
Red Rocks has a great selection of beer and wine including the fabulous Abita Turbo Dog!
The space itself is very cool. There is seating on the main floor, upstairs, and also patio seating out front.
Anyway, its official opening is tonight (Thurs.). I hope everyone can stop by and try it out.
Posted by: AJS | July 12, 2007 at 09:19 AM
Vace - Truth!
Posted by: Alex | July 10, 2007 at 09:47 AM
Best Pizza within easy reach of Petworth: Vace in Cleveland Park
In fact, we eat almost exclusively in Cleveland Park.
Posted by: DJ | July 10, 2007 at 05:03 AM
The owner says the grand opening for RedRocks is this Thursday. Woohoo!
Posted by: ben | July 09, 2007 at 08:00 PM
Red Rocks is set to open at Park and 11th the first week in July. I have it from the owner that the brick oven pizza served there will be more like 2 Amys and less (way less!) like Pizza Bolis...
Oh yeah--it will also serve brunch good beer, and other cafe food (salads, sandwiches, entrees, etc) and has a huge PATIO!
Posted by: EBG | June 26, 2007 at 11:05 AM
Actually, we've had consistently decent service (and pizza) from Pizza Boli's... strange.
Posted by: Bill | June 23, 2006 at 10:16 AM
LOL! Pizza ALWAYS tastes better if you're drunk. Also, after a really long and hard bicycle ride.
Posted by: Chris | June 23, 2006 at 10:11 AM
So remember a few posts down where I noted Pizza Bolis inability to make it to Petworth in less than 3 hours? Well, the Dominos over off Hawaii Ave next to that 7-11 just into Northeast has them beat! They just don't even show up and "the driver doesn't have a cellphone so I can't call her to ask where she is."
Pizza in Petworth -- it's faaaaantastic!
Oh, and I've always been a little disappointed at 2 Amy's. For my money, the best pizza in town is from Pizza Mart in Adams Morgan...of course I've never had it sober or before about 1 am, so I guess I could be wrong.
Posted by: Markus | June 23, 2006 at 09:42 AM
I think the best pizza in town is Two Amy's over by the Cathedral. This pizza place is certified by some certification board in Naples. It is a very busy place, kid friendly and worth the wait. It's not cheap either, but I love it!
Kay
Posted by: Kay | June 22, 2006 at 10:39 AM
If you want good pizza, go to Radius in Mt. Pleasant. They deliver to a lot of Petworth. Its the best, hands down.
Posted by: kvb | June 21, 2006 at 02:11 PM
11th Street has so much potential. I really to see a day when both 11th and Upshur are destinations!
Posted by: rich | June 21, 2006 at 11:17 AM
Speaking of pizza, the Pizza Bolis on 12th St NE is awful. If they are going to put flyers and coupons on my door, it better take less than THREE hours for the pizza to arrive.
So currently, what are the other options? Today's Pizza (same area) is reliable, but the pizza somehow tastes eerily mexican.
I think it's a damned shame that Manny & Olga's on 14th and T doesn't deliver to Petworth...it's maybe a 10 minute drive...clearly not too much to ask. Plus, its the best delivery pizza in DC.
I'm looking forward to this new place though.
Posted by: Markus | June 21, 2006 at 09:14 AM
Sorry Pizza snob -- as a Chicagoan, the pizza you describe not only sounds unappetizing, but completely sacrilegious.
What we really need around here is affordable food options -- even a fast food joint -- that cares about quality.
I miss having the great cheap eats of Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area -- nothing beats good $2 kosher hot dogs or high quality affordable sushi. Hell I'd like to have those veggie burgers they sell at McDonald's in California -- they were amazing.
Posted by: DC1974 | June 20, 2006 at 10:48 PM
It better be good or I'll never go. Pizza should have a paper thin, stiff crust, a high quality olive oil, fresh mozzarella, good quality herbs. That's it. The Italian culinery industry around Naples demanded that pizza be defined by law. I agree. There is only one place in DC that sells quality pizza: Sorrisso in Cleveland Park. We should bring in Italian Americans from other East Coast cities to be the judges. If they don't approve, the place gets shut down, and we open up a place that sells...chicken wings or maybe a nail salon or maybe a Scandinavian carry-out and call it Last Exit Before Sven.
Posted by: Pizza Snob | June 20, 2006 at 09:07 PM
Assuming everthing is legit, should we start offering letters of support? A pizza place on 11 - this would be great!!
Posted by: Richard | June 20, 2006 at 03:36 PM
The one thing we despirately need around here is good Pizza! I'm glad mario's is gone, cuz that was not good...I'll be looking forward to this!
Posted by: Cliff | June 20, 2006 at 02:12 PM