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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in Washingtonian. Updated August 2026.
Andy's Pizza Foggy Bottom · McPherson Square
Washingtonian 2025 readers' #1 pizza. The multi-location by-the-slice favorite DC readers crowned best in the city.
Martha Dear · Mount Pleasant
Washingtonian 2025 readers' #2 pizza. The Mount Pleasant basement pizzeria reshaping DC's neo-Neapolitan scene.
Timber Pizza Co. Petworth
Washingtonian 2025 readers' #3 pizza. Petworth's wood-fired anchor with outposts in McLean and Ballston.
2 Amys · Cleveland Park
One of the first Verace Pizza Napoletana-certified pizzerias in the country, running wood-fired Neapolitan pies alongside small-plate specials and a deep collection of salt-cured anchovies. Two decades in, it remains a reference point for the city's Neapolitan style, packed with families and off-duty chefs alike on a busy night.
Pizzeria Paradiso Dupont Circle
Ruth Gresser's wood-fired, from-scratch pizzeria has run since 1991, pairing a strong beer list with pies like the Paesana of spicy pesto, house-made chicken sausage, peppers, roasted escarole, broccoli rabe, ricotta, and mozzarella. One of the city's original from-scratch pizza operations, still expanding to new neighborhoods.