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Blogger D.C. Concierge answers a question from one of her readers: Where can I find good pizza in the District?
She recommends Comet Pizza and Ping Pong (Warning: Slicester Hackmuth tells us that the pies here are "tiny and expensive"). The concierge also is also in "LOVE LOVE LOVE" with 2 Amys, which at one point was one of the few pizzerias in the U.S. to be listed with the Verace Pizza Napoletana organization (the joint is no longer listed on the VPN site).
Anyway, the concierge claims that the best brick-oven pies in D.C. can be found at Matchbox or at "the unlikely pizza find" of Busboys and Poets.
Her favorite, however, is "a hidden gem" called Washington Deli.
The fact that the above recommendations come from someone who doesn't know what New Haven– or Neapolitan–style pizza is should be just as disconcerting as taking pizza advice from a guy (me) who hasn't been to the nation's capital since Carter was in the White House.
Hackmuth, who does live in D.C., recommends Vace. And three of the concierge's readers recommend Radius, which always gets favorable mentions from Slice readers whenever the city is brought up.
Vace
Address: 3315 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington DC 20008
Phone: 202-363-1999
Radius Pizza
Address: 3155 Mount Pleasant Street, Washington, DC 20010
Phone: 202-234-0808
Comet Pizza and Ping Pong
Address: 5037 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington DC 20008
Phone: 202-364-0404
2 Amys
Address: 3715 Macomb Street NW, Washington DC 20016
Phone: 202-885-5700
Matchbox
Address: 713 H Street NW, Washington DC 20001
Phone: 202-289-4441
Busboys and Poets
Address: 2021 14th Street NW, Washington DC 20009
Phone: 202-387-7638
Washington Deli
Address: 1990 K Street, Washington DC 20006
Phone: 202-331-3344
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3 Comments:
Radius is not so good -- too greasy and too much cheese. Ill second Washington Deli (its near my office and is good), but its not as good as Vace. Not only is VACE the best in dc, its the cheapest (at like $1.50 a slice, $9 for large plain pie).
hackmuth at 5:12PM on 07/11/07
Hackmuth is right - Vace is hands down the best pie in DC. Folks who like Radius think that a good pizza means heapings of greasy cheese - cuz there's nothing really else going on with that pizza (their sauce and crust are nothing special). I think the litmus test for any place is how good their plain cheese slice is. From there the topings are just bonuses - if they can't do the plain pie, then forget the rest. Radius and Comet may have some fancy contemporary pies, but they fall short with the fundementals and fail the litmus test in my opion.
rincon at 2:37PM on 07/16/07
Rincon: Welcome to Slice! Thanks for commenting.
It's so true. That's long been the litmus test at Slice. (Even in pre-Slice days that was my litmus test.)
Adam Kuban at 2:50PM on 07/16/07