Pizzeria Paradiso

Lonely Planet review

This casual restaurant serves wood-oven Neapolitan-style pizzas with scrumptious toppings to crowds of starving patrons with rave results. The pizza crust is perfect - light, crisp and a little flaky. Great people-watching from the big plate glass windows, popular happy hours and a hand picked beer and ale selection heighten the appeal. Still thirsty? Check out the cool basement beer bar. There's a second location in Dupont Circle.

In 2005 the unused basement bar was given a slick makeover. It's now Birreria Paradiso, Washington's coolest new beer bar. Despite its low-level environs, the place gets lots of sunlight and has a warm Mediterranean vibe. The reason to come, however, is for the beer. There are 16 different types on draft and 80 bottles offered. The selection covers much of the world.