dancancount

Taqueria Poblano was seemingly empty (yes, empty!) on a recent Friday night. Probably about half full. Next door was a mobbed pizza joint with a wood burning oven that was new. We didn't go there so we don't know exactly how good their pizza was. Still, given my obsession with coal oven pizza, it's just a matter of time until I "discover" it. But TP was not as good as it has been in the past. Frankly, in combination with a less than half full dining room on a Friday night this was not, well, encouraging. I've liked this place in the past and now, with competition from the adjacent family friendly pizzaria it seems to be fading. I would like to believe that TP will return to what it served for several years before the pizza chain's opening and recapture my heart and stomach. BUT, based on what we were served on a recent Friday night, some one seems to have thrown in the towel! For myself and for the neighborhood this is NOT an encouraging development...

The pizza place next door is not new, Pie Tanza has been there for two years.

Is it more of a restaurant or a bar? Will they have happy hour drink and/or food specials?

Thanks.

First, welcome to DR.com, dancancount. And if the place is in Alexandria, I know the likely source of the delay in opening. It's initials are "City Hall."

Thanks on both accounts.

So a question for any new restaurant that gets delayed, like Overwood: Since the owners are having to shell out a lot more money for rent, especially expensive rents like Old Town, than what they were expecting before recouping any income, wouldn't it have some sort of affect on the prices since they would almost be forced to bring in more profit to make up for the unexpected losses?

Any update on the opening up of Overwood in Old Town? It's taking the place of Ecco and the opening has been pushed back a number of times so far in 2006, or that's what a City of Alexandria site has had listed.

Thanks.