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Friday, May 15, 2009
Coal-fired pizza comes to Round Rock
Pizzeria Corvina Wine Bar & Marketplace has opened in Round Rock, offering pizzas, pasta dishes and roasted main courses of beef, chicken and fish cooked in an 800-degree, coal-fired oven.
The restaurant, named for an Italian wine grape, fittingly offers more than 100 wines, favoring Italian regions, with 16 reds and 14 whites available by the 250-milliliter carafe, from $6 to $25, with 16 beers on tap, including Italian favorites Peroni and Moretti.
Corvina specializes in house-made ingredients, including mozzarella cheese, fettuccine pasta, pizza dough, sauces, meatballs and breads. Pizzas start at $10, pastas at $11.
Round Rock Crossing shopping center at 3107 S. Interstate 35, Suite 840. 512-310-2625, www.pizzeriacorvina.com. Hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays through Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to midnight Fridays and Saturdays.
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Pastrami and coffee at Walton’s Fancy and Staple
Walton’s Fancy and Staple, Sandra Bullock’s new florist-deli-bakery-coffee shop opened Friday morning at 609 W. Sixth St.
The trickle of first-day customers included Skip Avis, a resident of the nearby 360 Condominiums tower who said he’d been calling almost daily to find out the opening date. After a breakfast of coffee and a croissant, Avis said he liked the shop’s French cafe-style look. Rollingwood resident Josh Bernstein (above), who works downtown and used to live near Walton’s, said that after months of seeing the building under construction, curiosity lured him in.
Choices in the case Friday included a scone with tasso ham and caramelized onion for $1.75, a compact blueberry muffin for $1.25 and a strawberry-kiwi tart with custard for $3.75. A list of 20-plus sandwiches included lean pastrami stacked on thick slices of fresh, seedless rye bread for $6.25.
Bullock did not attend the opening because she was in New Orleans for an awards ceremony recognizing her charitable contributions after Hurricane Katrina.
Read more about Walton’s and Sandra Bullock’s investments in Austin on Sunday in the American-Statesman.
(American-Statesman photos by Mike Sutter)
