If you think you could handle free pizza for an entire year (and who couldn't?), get yourself down to the new Fuel Pizza & Wings at 1606 K Street NW today for its grand opening. more ›

North Carolina based chain, Fuel Pizza & Wings will open a DC restaurant at 16th and K Street on Jan. 18 at noon. The first 50 customers get free food for a year, late-comers can try free menu tastings throughout the day. There will be a soft opening for limited hours on Monday and Tuesday with at 15 percent discount on the entire menu. more ›

Pizzaiolo Edan MacQuaid, whose impressive resume includes 2 Amys, Red Rocks, Pizzeria Orso and Local 16, is set to open a pizza place at 1832 14th Street NW in partnership with one of the owners of Local 16, Aman Ayoubi. more ›

District of Pi, opening today, brings St. Louis-style pizza and craft beer to Penn Quarter. more ›

Former Top Chef contestant Spike Mendelsohn's New York-style pizza joint has been a long time coming. But now we know that We, the Pizza is set to open next door to Good Stuff Eatery on July 12. The pizzeria will feature regional ingredients like creamed spinach, pancetta and shaved truffles as well as the usual standards like pepperoni and mozzarella. more ›

The quality of a jumbo slice is something that most Washingtonians know is best left to be pondered after a night of heavy boozing. So we're a little surprised that the Travel Channel show Food Wars is pitting two local purveyors, Pizza Mart and Jumbo Slice, against each other to see who serves it up best. Less surprising is the wealth of man-on-the-street interviews included, featuring some of our city's finest at their drunkest. more ›

The title of this event, "Chimay Vintage Beer and Cheese Tasting," was only partially misleading. There was some "vintage" Chimay to be had - one six-liter bottle of 2007 Chimay Grand Reserve (the blue label). And there was Chimay cheese to taste, if you ordered the special pizza with Chimay cheese. Good thing I read the full description on the DC Beer Week Facebook page, and ended up getting what I expected - a night of great beer and pizza at Birreria Paradiso with some extra Chimay options. more ›

Not that it'll be that hard. Jumbo Slice-bashing aside, former Top Chef contestant Spike Mendelsohn is planning to branch out from his signature Good Stuff Eatery's burgers into another facet of the upscale fast food trend: pizza. He's been eating his way through New York's pizza in order to "research" the new establishment, which will open in the next three to four months, according to a journal he kept last week for New York Magazine. more ›

UPDATE: While we earlier heard it was all day, Papa John's employees are saying the deal ended at 4 p.m. Sorry! But at least there's a closer pizza joint for those folks in Shaw, downtown, and Mt. Vernon Triangle. more ›

This week Tom Sietsema wrote a feature article about tasting menus. He posits:

They tend to be too much food and require too much of a time commitment. ... more ›

This past Friday night and with little fanfare, Alberto’s in Dupont Circle restarted its ovens and pizza-making operations, less than four months after a fire seriously damaged the P street location and left a pizza shaped hole in many pizza lovers' hearts. The same fire also forced the closure of the DJ Hut located above Alberto’s and the Subway next door, both of which remain closed. more ›

Hope everyone had an excellent meal on the greatest American food day of the year. It's been a quiet week in food news as it seems everyone was more interested in turkey. DCist Food alum Erin Zimmer has an excellent recipe from Butterfield 9's chef Michael Harr for leftover cranberry sauce muffins. Mmm... Pizza Mania Looks like it's another pizza week in D.C. - everyone is covering pizza. From DCist's review of Pizza Zero,... more ›

Written by DCist Contributor Andrew Chriss Self-deprecating moniker aside, Pizza Zero, located along on Bethesda Avenue next to the Edgemont neighborhood in Bethesda, has plenty to offer pizza explorers looking for a slightly different experience. Perhaps the best way to pinpoint what's unique about Pizza Zero is to have all the pizza joints in the area stand up and be counted. Standing? O.K. How many of you serve pizza that I can tolerate (being a... more ›

Seattlest watches as a S.L.U.T. is born and Seattle Flickr users go nuts over a local art installation. A restaurant critic demands a Diner's Bill of Rights over a gnat next to her drink, and, in lieu of a Portlandist, Seattlest debates with itself over the identity of the Northwest's crown jewel. Seattlest also joins the guys from Fantagraphics for an ill-fated gun party in the woods. LAist saw national headlines soar this week with... more ›

Clockwise from top left: Comet Ping Pong, Red Rocks, 2 Amys, Bebo There are many factors that affect a pizza. The type of flour used for the dough. The temperature of the oven. The quality of the toppings. The skill and hands of the maker of the dough. The vigilance of the pizzaiolo (the person manning the oven). D.C. may not be known as much of a pizza town, but a few of the... more ›

Veg D.C. Names Best Veggie Restaurant VegDC.com has tallied the votes for the area's best vegetarian restaurant, and the award goes to Java Green, the downtown eatery that serves a wide range of vegetarian and vegan cuisine (and really great coffee drinks) in the Farragut North area of downtown. Even an avowed meat-lover like me can find something to enjoy at the busy restaurant; the fake meats they use taste and feel nearly like the... more ›

In the summer of 2003, Chef Ed Hanson opened a pizzeria on the western edge of a neighborhood that had just renamed itself Penn Quarter. Four years later, Ella’s Wood Fired Pizza, named for Hanson’s young daughter, remains a rarity in downtown Washington: it is an independently owned--and not the least bit pretentious--place to enjoy a drink and a bite to eat. Located at 901 F Street, Ella’s features neither a unifying decorative theme (Matchbox)... more ›

>> Poor little Village Voice music critic just can't seem to master L'Enfant's design for D.C., gets lost on the way to 9:30 Club and misses half of last night's Air show. Bwahahaha. The diagonals don't form a pentagram for no reason. >> Congratulations to local rising stars Le Loup for getting signed to Hardly Art, a new label under Sub Pop "focused on offering quality records for people to enjoy". You'll learn more... more ›

With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news of so many dead coming out of Virginia Tech, and with so many of the victims and their relatives from the D.C. area, we felt it important to pay... more ›

Google Voice Local Search, aka Google 411 Experimental or just Goog-411, a free telephone-based information service, has apparently been live in Google Labs for several months now, but of course a lot of folks didn't take much notice until the ubiquitous TechCrunch finally posted about it late last week. Thanks to their influence, it's been making the rounds of just about everything in our RSS reader, so we thought we'd give it a spin and see how well it handles a request in the Washington, D.C. area. more ›

We're all familiar with The Rules. You know, that iron clad system by which every woman can land herself the man of her dreams and keep him, if only she's willing to act like the most obnoxious kind of person you've ever met. Of course, men have rules, too. They just don't publish them. They've been passed down in locker rooms, cigar-choked men's-only clubs, and fraternity houses for time immemorial. The fact is, I could... more ›

As we enter the final stretch-of-the-pants holiday eating season, perhaps we all feel a little tight in the trousers, but apparently not as much as the chatters last week over on TomChat offering their inane advice on what a poor patron who has undergone gastric bypass surgery should tell a waiter who wonders why so much of a meal has been left on the plate. The discussion dominated last week's last-of-the-year chat, thus crowding out any serious discourse on holiday cocktails or the pros and cons of dining out on New Year's Eve. more ›

It's safe to say that Pleaseeasaur is unlike most other musical acts. JP Hasson performs jingles for fake companies ("Pizza Brothers and Sons, Inc.") and goofy songs ("Warning: These Cobras Are Totally Cool") in front of a plain white screen, wearing a different costume for each, while "projectionist/costume designer/multimedia extraordinaire" Thomas Hurley III puts images on the screens using an overhead projector cued to the music and occasionally holds up cardboard cutouts. If it sounds weird, it is - it's also hilarious. more ›

The -ists this week had politics on the brain. And what goes better with politics? Partying-- that's two great tastes in one. Oh, and Kevin Federline...can't forget about Kevin Federline. That's three great tastes in one. -Bostonist discussed two big state issues-- what sort of math constitutes a marriage and what kind of alcohol can be sold in most grocery stores. And the politically minded Curt Schilling went on "Jeopardy!". -Chicagoist celebrated the election news... more ›

Cameras Receive Mixed Reviews: Over the weekend the first four of 48 planned surveillance cameras went live in the District, promising to help police handle an on-going crime emergency. But how useful might they be? Not very, according to the Washington Times. Officials in other cities that implemented the cameras argue that they don't do much in helping stop crime, an experience that proven in our northern-most suburb, Baltimore: Baltimore, for example, set up... more ›

Good morning, Washington. So... did you participate in Bike to Work Day? And wasn't it surprisingly pleasant? We hope the answer to both questions is yes. Here's one more reason to pick up the habit: yesterday WTOP reported that Metro will be replacing its old bike racks with ones that are more spacious and secure. Wilson Bridge Dedicated: The Post paints the scene at yesterday's Wilson Bridge Dedication ceremony. Governors! Giant flags! Woodrow Wilson's Rolls... more ›

It's official -- winter is over. Today is the Vernal Equinox, the day that daytime and nighttime are of equal length. But Mother Nature isn't one to make things easy on us. Our friends at Capital Weather are reporting that tomorrow might be particularly winter-like -- the temperature won't break 40, and we may even get some snow. So, enjoy today's mild weather as long as you can. Man Killed at Shaw Metro Station:... more ›

Hill rats, keep your eyes open: NBC 4 is reporting that Jessica Simpson, post-Nick Lachey, is over on the Hill today. The NBC story even has a supplemental "Jessica though the years" photo slideshow album. Simpson is in town representing Operation Smile, for which she serves as its International Youth Ambassador. The organization does good deeds in third-world countries by treating children and young adults with facial deformities like cleft lips and cleft palates. Three cheers to Simpson flexing some altruistic muscle. We'd like to get our hands on some of the talking points she'll use when speaking to the representatives: any thoughts on what those would be like? more ›

Thor Cheston is serious about beer. The manager of Birreria Paradiso, the new basement bar of Georgetown’s Pizza Paradiso featuring 16 taps and 80 bottled beers, can rattle off adjectives about brews that are usually reserved for fine wines. more ›

Part two of two. While conducting research for his book Pizza -- A Slice of Heaven: The Ultimate Pizza Guide and Companion, Ed Levine tried 1,000 slices of pizza in 20 cities. Some would love to follow in Levine's footsteps, travelling in search of excellent slices, but our day jobs confine us to the Washington metro area for our pizza-sampling expeditions. Though not traditionally a mecca for pizza connoisseurs, D.C. boasts some serious pie-makers. DCist... more ›