In late 1991 my brick oven pizza obsession truly began. Growing up in a household that ordered crappy “Pizza Movers” deliveries at least 3 nights a week I didn’t yet know what GOOD pizza was. In December of 1991, I tried a new brick oven pizzeria in Dupont Circle called Pizza Paradiso and that all changed! This magical pizza had a crust unlike any I’d seen before. Even when the school cafeteria lunch ladies burned our little square pizzas the char was nothing like this heavenly flavor. It was that moment that I set out on a quest to find out what truly great pizza was.
Flash forward 20 years and Pizza Paradiso’s has moved to a much larger Dupont Circle space while 2 new locations have opened up in Georgetown and Old Town, Alexandria. I’m proud to report that the crusts are still amazing in their trendy new 140 seat Georgetown pizzeria. Their wood burning dome still kicks out one of the top 5 pies in DC on a daily basis.
