The Best Pizza Near The Ashby Inn & Restaurant, by the Record
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The line forms before the doors open, which tells you something about a strip-mall pizzeria in suburban Maryland. Tony Conte left fine dining to make neo-Neapolitan pies here, and the blistered crusts show it. A James Beard nominee and a spot on 50 Top Pizza USA, the place punches well past its zip code. The roasted potato and onion pizza, fragrant with rosemary, was named one of the DC area's favorite dishes of 2025.
- 50 Top Pizza #20 · 50 Top Pizza USA
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Tony Conte
- Washingtonian Roasted-Potato-and-Onion Pizza · Our Favorite Dishes of the Year in the DC Area
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Rank 2. A Modo Mio
Neapolitan Pizza
A Neapolitan pizza restaurant a few miles from Arlington Cemetery, run by the same Sicilian family for close to half a century. The pies follow STG rules, meaning a pillowy, charred crust, properly melty cheese, and a lot of the ingredients shipped over from Italy. The room skews elegant for a pizza place, and the menu stretches well past pizza into pastas and starters, with a wine list that takes itself seriously.
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Rank 3. AP Pizza Shop
Pizza
The counter-service offshoot of All-Purpose's DC locations, AP Pizza Shop runs a leaner menu than its siblings but holds two things they don't: pizza by the slice and a chicken-parm sandwich that reportedly requires planning around. The deck-oven pies use long-fermented dough, which makes the crust worth eating on its own. Order the feta ranch with chili oil for dipping and pretend it was your idea.