What started as a pizza party at Take the Cake in Northside is now opening as a restaurant in the Gateway Quarter.
A Tavola Pizzeria, owned by Jared Wayne, Bill Draznik and Sam Ginocchio, will be opening at 1222 Vine Street (which is, I believe, two doors down from Senate) sometime this fall. They’ll be serving homemade pizzas, with locally-sourced ingredients and house-made products (they’ll cure their own bacon, sausage, and sopressata, and make their own dough and sauce), craft cocktails, craft beer, and “affordably priced” wines. Wayne is making the furniture for the space in his studio in Mt. Adams.
I was never able to make it to one of their Northside events, but I’ve heard nothing but good things about their pizza. This sounds like a place that will fit right into the Gateway Quarter, considering the other pizza place, Venice on Vine, is only open until 6 PM. Now, here’s to hoping that they stay open late– I’m sure they’d get a ton of business from the soon-to-open Lackman (a bar owned by the folks who produce The Righteous Room) if they are.
