I was pretty excited to try this place and ended up on a Saturday night after enjoying the Happy Hour next door at Zinburger (which has a great HH BTW). There was an hour wait but with beer in hand next door we did not sweat that at all.
The friendly hostess took my cell and I received text updates about our table which is very convenient. Once seated we realized how tight the place is. They really don't have that much seating inside and it was 113 so no bueno on the outdoor action.
The wood fired oven is bad ass but kicks a lot of heat into the place. We watched about four groups of people try and sit at the bar facing the oven and all left within 2min due to the extreme heat. The restaurant in general was HOT. It did not bother me too much but the people I was with were uncomfortable.
We ordered some pasta and pizza dishes and both were good but not great. The pasta had a nice bite to it and was flavored very well. The pizza looked awesome but I unfortunately found the crust to be spongy and soft not crispy and hard. I had the Pomo pizza and the flavor was good with a crust more like an Indian nan bread than what we are used to eating. There was a noticeable lack of salt and yeast flavor in the dough which I actually enjoyed but again, it needed to be crispy.
Prices weren't bad considering their ingredients and people have to get over the "compare to Hungry Howies" temptation when they look at restaurant prices. You get good quality ingredients here and it shows.
Pomo likely deserves a four-star but sitting in 85 degree restaurant just seems like a unacceptable oversight. They either need to jack up the capacity of their current HVAC or learn to back down some of that heat the ovens are throwing in to the room with vents.