Ava’s Pizza and Wine Bar
Ava’s hails from St. Michaels and Cambridge, bringing in 2023 its newest location to downtown Rehoboth Beach. It should have stayed in those Maryland locations. Offering Detroit style pizza, Ava’s prides itself on quick ordering and fast service, a sort of Domino’s approach to a custom sit-down pizzeria, but the problem is, the pizza is not better than Dominos or even better than two-day-old slices ordered and shipped by regular mail from Detroit’s famous Buddy’s Pizza. The other quasi-Italian offerings are not much better, but their quality actually exceeds the slow and sloppy service that, based upon our visits, defines Ava’s. And given that it boasts “Wine Bar” in its name, Ava’s wine selection is exceedingly narrow and disappointing (though it does have a robust beer list). Ava’s sits on a great Baltimore Ave. corner location that cannot seem to hold a restaurant, letting slip many crab and seafood specialty places over the past years. Our guess is that an updated version of this review may find another restaurant taking over Ava’s, perhaps even Dominos, which would be a welcome upgrade (at least in terms of pizza quality).
