Living in a dormitory my first year, I felt I had limited choices when it came to Italian food. I gorged on Observatory Hill Dining Hall's spaghetti, College Inn's cheesy bread and Domino's pepperoni pizza, but that was about it. Now, freed from the bounds of campus dining, I decided to try out Fry's Spring Station, a gourmet pizza restaurant that opened last May.
The restaurant fills space left by Fry's Spring Service station, which closed after 70 years of operation. It specializes in fire-roasted pizzas, while also serving traditional restaurant fare such as salads, pastas and Italian wines.
Before I entered the restaurant, I could see customers sipping wine and dining in the outdoor seating area on their perfectly roasted pizzas while chatting away in the night air. If you are imagining Fry Spring's Station to be the stereotypical Italian restaurant with white-and-red checkered tablecloths, Italian foreign music and cheesy waiters in white aprons, you are in for a nice surprise.
The restaurant seems to attract mostly middle-aged couples, rather than college students. There were students, but only a few, perhaps because its location
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