July 24th, 2017
Washington, D.C.
Now that our pizza road trip posts are over, we’re picking back up with reviews of the last few pizza places that we visited on the original 2015 list back in the summer 2016. Wow, that was almost 2 years ago now. It still feels crazy that we’ve been doing this so long. We can still remember each pizza pretty vividly. (Well, I can. I think some of them are starting to blend together for Eric.)
We made it over to the last pizza place that was in Washington, D.C. on the last day of a long weekend there (see this post where we last left off). The final pizzeria in DC was Pete’s New Haven Apizza. You probably know by now that we LOVE New Haven pizza, so our expectations were pretty high. Even more, Pete’s ranked in pretty high on the list.
We ended up ordering two pizzas because there were three of us splitting these. The specialty pizzas here are all named after places in New Haven, so we ordered one of “The Green” which was topped with artichokes, spinach, and roasted tomatoes (hold the olives), and one of the “Elm City”, which had caramelized onions, wild mushrooms, and roasted chicken.
The story is that one of the co-founder’s fathers is from East Haven, right on the New Haven line, so the co-founders all are familiar with the New Haven style. BUT these pizzas aren’t really true New Haven style. The crust is a little thicker and round. There’s none of that classic New Haven char. The toppings were great, though, so we aren’t complaining. You could really tell how fresh the toppings were (none of that frozen spinach going on here!).
This was probably our favorite pizza in DC, even though it wasn’t really a “New Haven Apizza”. We can see why 2Amys could get the slight edge from the critics and we do like a good Neapolitan pie, but honestly, if we had to choose we’d go for something a bit more substantial that could hold more toppings.
We went to their original location, but they also have a few locations now around the city.
To visit:
Pete’s New Haven Apizza
1400 Irving St NW
Washington, DC 20010
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