I was wondering where I'd stuff my face on a lazy Saturday when I decided to check if SPIN! Pizza had opened, and lo and behold it was opening day. Built on the ruins of two failed Japanese restaurants, a pizza place was a welcome change. I'd checked their website a few times before and it looked pretty hipsterish, so I had somewhat high hopes.
I was concerned it'd be too packed but when I stopped here for lunch it was alright, and only looked to be around a third full. The restaurant is something between casual and fast casual. You order your food at the front counter, but after you are seated it's full table service. Newfangled comes to mind here.
When you first walk in you'll be pretty surprised by the size of the interior, especially if you'd eaten at the previous restaurants here. They'd obviously knocked out a majority of the walls. Once you enter you'll see a small display table with a selection of wines and a large menu print on the wall along with a selection of other beverages beneath. A pizza prep area is on one side of the cash registers, and a fridge filled with gelatos is on the other side. There's an open kitchen behind all this, which wraps around an enormous oven.
The dining area is now a single large, airy space decorated in bright, earthy hues. The ceiling and ducting are painted a vivid red and pendant lights hang above the tables. The flooring is a dark brown, synthetic wood. Large windows provide a perfect amount of diffuse lighting. Some of the walls are decorated with lots of layered prints. Black bench seating wraps around the inside of the restaurant, and there's booth and open seating in other areas. Outside there's a handful of seats on the porch as well. The whole place has a kind of late 90's throwback look going for it, and it sports the nicest interior of all the restaurants in this little shopping complex.
As far as the food, I opted for the $10 combo (forget the name, which is a small 6" personal pizza and a bowl of soup. This was mostly because I got such a headache from looking at their crazy, poorly designed menu with the fifty different fonts and font sizes, that I just gave up trying to order anything else. I started with the minestrone soup, but it wasn't that great. It was topped with quite an awful lot of cheese. Seeing as the pizza already has cheese, cheese on the soup too is a bit excessive. It also had a bit of a Chef Boyardee flavor and color profile going on. That is to say, too much tomato. It could've used a few sprigs of something green, like celery or maybe spinach. The pizza was a different story altogether. It's hard to find even a half decent pizza in DFW for some reason, but the pizza here was superb. It has a thin crust that was amazingly crispy on the outside, but chewy on the inside. It had a kind of mellow taste that was oddly sweet at the same time. Not sure what was going on there, but it wasn't bad. The sauce was nice and tangy, and all the other toppings were flavorful but mild, a welcome change from the way too salty junk you find on other pizzas around here.
I'm not sure I'd come back here regularly to dine in, but I would probably give it preference for takeouts due to the quality of the pizza. Their larger 12" pizzas seem to hover around $12 each, which is a great deal for the quality. I give it a 5/5 for now since I'm still in the honeymoon phase with this restaurant. It's a nice addition to the area. read more