Tino's Pizzeria, Pizzaiolo Logan Griffith's Modern Pies in Cleveland Park

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Per PopVille, the restaurant space formerly known as Chipotle and Cereal Bowl will become Tino's Pizzeria. 

Not a lot of information available yet, not even on their website.

From what I can glean from their Instagram account, they are using flour from Hayden Flour Mills, also used by Pizzeria Bianco.  They will also have an octopus pizza.

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Tino's has been open for a couple of weeks and seems to be doing good business.

We stopped in on a Sunday early evening around 6pm.  Most of the tables were full with families dining.  The space is a long narrow-ish room with a counter in the back for ordering.  You place an order, get a table number card, and they deliver the food.  I'm not sure what the dining term is for this type of service:  upscale fast casual?  

The menu is a handful of salads, about a dozen pizzas, and a couple of desserts.  It looked like they had some daily specials posted at the counter.  The beer list was mostly DMV area based, Port City, DC Brau, Right Proper, Old Ox, but nothing that you couldn't find at a decently stocked DC beer store.  But at least they are supporting local breweries!

We started with a nice salad of tomatoes, bottarga, capers, olives, radishes and parsley ($8).  All of the produce was super fresh and certainly looked to be local, high end farmer market quality.  Although I thought that the salad was rather tame, especially given the the salad included bottarga, capers and olives. 

Next we had the All Green Everything ($15), a pizza of pesto, charred zucchini, mozzarella, ricotta, and green tomatoes.  It was a handsome looking pie, but we both agreed it was bland (bland pesto is no way to go through life!)  The crust was also rather limp.  I'm not sure if because it was busy their pizza oven temp was too low or what, but the pizza was fine, if underwhelming. 

If Tino's is trying to challenge 2 Amy's or Paradiso or some of the other wood-fired pizza places in town and in the burbs, they have a ways to go. 

We'll try again in a couple of months.

 

[KeithA]

On 9/17/2019 at 2:08 PM, Tweaked said:

Tino's has been open for a couple of weeks and seems to be doing good business.

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If Tino's is trying to challenge 2 Amy's or Paradiso or some of the other wood-fired pizza places in town and in the burbs, they have a ways to go. 

We'll try again in a couple of months.

We went a few weeks ago right when they opened. We also had the all green everything pizza and the four cheese pizza. I thought they were good solid pies with a sturdy, not soggy crust and very nice staff. The flavors were only good, not great. If I had a choice between them and 2 Amys, definitely go with 2 Amys. That being said, I welcome them to the neighborhood and plan to try to their other options to find something I like better. Not really in competition with Vace as it is different type of pizza, pricing, and restaurant. 

[Mark Slater]

3 hours ago, KeithA said:

We went a few weeks ago right when they opened. We also had the all green everything pizza and the four cheese pizza. I thought they were good solid pies with a sturdy, not soggy crust and very nice staff. The flavors were only good, not great. If I had a choice between them and 2 Amys, definitely go with 2 Amys. That being said, I welcome them to the neighborhood and plan to try to their other options to find something I like better. Not really in competition with Vace as it is different type of pizza, pricing, and restaurant. 

Vace is unique in it's "ambience". I'll say no more. 

[deangold]

4 hours ago, KeithA said:

I thought they were good solid pies with a sturdy, not soggy crust and very nice staff. 

The pizza crust had a staff? 

[KeithA]

I've been back several times in the last month to Tino's as it has become a close by favorite of my kids. They law the simple pie aka cheese pizza, which I think is pretty good too. I've enjoyed two of unique pizzas on a few occassions - Shrooming with lots of mushrooms for a savory dish with some sweet accents from roasted pear and the My Dear HoneyNut which is a really out there but good pie: " honeynut squash puree, charred honeynut, burrata, pickled delicata, pine nuts" It is very different and on the sweeter side but not with a nice balance from the nuts and extra rich creamy burrata. Last night we also got a cheese pizza with their pesto sauce instead of tomato - my wife and I really liked it. Lots of good but not overly strong flavor in the pesto. I'd get it again. We also had their endive, grapefruit, and hazelnut salad which was nice and light. So I think I recently wrote in the pizza forum, this is a great place to drop in or add to your local rotation but not destination dining. They also have a good rotating menu of desserts and a full bar. One night we got their smores rice crispy treat which was damn tasty (didn't see it last night but saw more sophisticated items like a pot de creme plus they always seem to have ice cream scoops).

[DonRocks]

I've only looked at the pictures here (and the website), but when I saw them, my first thought was that we need more female pizzaiolos (pizzaiolas?) in this town.

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Girl Food (Odessa Piper and Terry Theise)

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Closed, per Tino's IG account. 

[Mark Slater]

What a shame. I think that location is cursed. Chipotle couldn't make it there. 

[sandynva]

 A friend posted on Facebook that apparently they will  be serving pizzas on some of the weekends in December,   So if you’re a fan like my friend is, you have another chance to get their pies!