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I hope that Reston isn't TOO far out of everybody's line of travel...

A "new" pizza place just opened in Reston, in the Tall Oaks Shopping Center.
It's /excellent/, not yet very popular, and in a terrible location -- it's at
least the fifth restaurant that's been in that location in six years, more like
the eighth in the dozen years I've lived just up the street.  So catch it
before they go out of business...

Why go?  Oh, yeah -- they do "gourmet" pizzas.  Not your basic sausage & onion
over tomato sauce, but calamari and jerk chicken and artichoke hearts. 
Usually,
I avoid pizzas like that like the plague.  We tried a veggie pizza and a jerk
chicken pizza, with friends, and both were /excellent/.  The veggie pizza, we
got
with a whole wheat crust, just to try everything.  GREAT crusts, toppings went
with each other much better than I expected, and a good time was had by all.

Ambience: inside, okay; outside, really nice.  (We had to move inside because
the pollen was bothering one of our friends -- otherwise, I'd ONLY eat outside
at this place.  Quiet, some trees, some passersby, and always smoke-free.)

Service: very, very good.  We took our baby with us, and in addition to not
giving us any hassle about the space her stroller took up, everybody made a
point of saying hello to /her/ and being friendly.  A++ for attention, getting
us what we needed, timeliness, etc.  (One of the waitresses was, IMNSHO, also
/exceptionally, amazingly/ pretty, which was kinda distracting for me.)

Prices: okay.  Not cheap like pizza once was -- but what pizza is, any more?
Two good-sized pizzas with the expensive toppings, around five beers, and a
couple of non-alcoholic drinks: $46.  We left JUST as the live reggae band was
setting up to play for the evening.  If they do that on Thursdays, I wonder
what they do on weekends?!  Next time: baby stays home, we stay for the music.

Final evaluation: I took a slice of each pizza home and had the slices cold,
late that night.  (I know, I should have saved them for breakfast.  I was
afraid
my wife would eat them before I woke up.)  Both excellent, although the jerk
chicken was slightly more excellent cold.

Location: Tall Oaks Shopping Center, through the gateway/arch to the left of
the Giant Supermarket.  For non-Restonians: just 50 yards from the intersection
of Wiehle Avenue and North Shore Drive, the one /closest/ to the Toll Road.