Pupatella — Restaurant in Alexandria

Been waiting to try Pupatella- Alexandria since they opened. They have been working on it for a few years it seems. Great pizza is all about the dough, a little about the oven, and less about the toppings. I could taste the yeast in my dough - it didn't taste like a 3 day rested sourdough starter dough. It tasted like bread dough yeast. It was also under cooked. I suspect they don't have a 900-1000 degree oven - without it it will never taste right. On a positive note, they have good toppings, The atmosphere was very nice and the service was also very good. they did a good job redoing the building. Wine prices are very reasonable for old town. Its hard to be critical when they have only been open 2 weeks, but the dough and oven issues will be...

I’ll start by saying I’d like to give Pupatella another shot in a few weeks, but our first experience was okay! Understand it’s a new restaurant so it maybe working through some things. Ambiance is great, we loved sitting at the outside bar. Fun decor, cute patio seating. The reason I’m giving 3 stars is I ordered a wine listed under “Reds” and it was in fact a white wine. When I brought it up, the servers didn’t offer a solution so my husband ended up drinking the white wine. Also, the “Mimosa” pizza was underdone and therefore not very good. I think Pupatella has a lot of potential and I’d like to return, just disappointed in the...

Food was great. There is no online ordering yet and when I called in they said we don't do call-in orders yet. So I went in person, which was fine. But as noted in another review, there isn't a way to notify you when the pizza is ready or how long it will take , so you have to just show back up and it's on a rack. Reheated, still tasted good to me. So I suspect some of this will settle down as it hits more normalcy past the hype spot. Would still go back for the good...