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The Pizza Pool: 2 Amys vs. Radius
Who makes the best pizza in Washington? You tell us!
UPDATE: This poll is closed! Radius won!
Who makes the best pizza in Washington? You tell us! We're asking you to vote in the first Washingtonian.com Pizza Pool, a brackets-style contest that will narrow 32 pizzas to one winner. For a refresher on how the brackets will work, head here.
2 Amys: Chef Peter Pastan’s casual neighborhood gem, with its line out the door, built its reputation on its D.O.C.–accredited Neapolitan-style pizza. The blistered rounds that emerge from the wood-burning oven come topped with say, cockles and grana padano, or house-made pork sausage with caramelized onions.
Radius Pizza: Pancetta, housemade sausage, and kalamata olives are just a few of the toppings available at this eat-in/delivery Mount Pleasant pizza place, now run by an alum of Poste and Black's Bar and Kitchen.
This poll will stay open until noon on Thursday.
*To help keep this contest fair, we've elected to use an IP address-based poll. This means that if you are voting from an office or network setting, not everybody will be able to vote. We apologize for the inconvenience, but we hope you'll encourage coworkers to vote from their home computers.
I love the pizza at 2 Amy’s however the daycare atmosphere is such a turn off. Way too many kids and soccer moms who could care less who is annoyed by their misbehaving offspring.
Posted by: Pizzafan, Aug 28, 2009 04:57:52 PM
The owner of Radius is a Culinary Institute of America grad with awesome credentials. Everything is home made and local sustainable. They have had Radius since Spring 2009. Do not compare it to the former ownership. They only have the same name and adress...not the same menu or service. The new Radius is a culinary delight!!
Posted by: Good Taste, Aug 27, 2009 09:10:41 AM
I am a HUGE fan of Amy;s pizza it has originality and is ZESTY like me. What kind of name is Raduis, are we in math class? i LOVE LONG BEEFY HOTS DOGZ ANEWAYZ!
Posted by: jay, Aug 27, 2009 08:48:46 AM
I am a HUGE fan of Amy’s pizza it has originality and is ZESTY like me. What kind of name is Raduis, are we in math class? i LOVE LONG BEEFY HOTS DOGZ ANEWAYZ!
Posted by: KOPP, Aug 27, 2009 08:47:26 AM
Well to the casual reader it would sound like that 2 Amy’s was given creative verbage, However the proof will be in the voting. and Again I order a pie from 2 Amy’s and the topping fell off, not because they had too many, but because of the lack of CHEESE!! I mean seriously who want to eat pizza if you have to worry about topping falling off..That is no fun....
Posted by: TROUTHUNTER1973, Aug 27, 2009 08:46:13 AM
@slapdash Nope. A Washingtonian Magazine food editor wrote blurbs for any of the pizza places that did not previously have reviews.
Posted by: Catherine (washingtonian.com), Aug 27, 2009 08:34:41 AM
@Catherine So are you saying that if a restaurant (like Radius) apparently didn’t previously have a review, the staff just wrote a lazy blurb?
Posted by: slapdash, Aug 27, 2009 08:23:59 AM
I have eaten at both places and Radius is an awesome place for good soild hearty, well crafted , and homemade ingredients pizza. At Radius my topping did not fall of the pie, however they did at 2 Amy’s..Any place that can’t make topping stay on the pie needs some work in my opinion. Also, it does sound like the writer of the descriptions did favor 2 Amy’s, not really fair I would say.
Posted by: TROUTHUNTER1973, Aug 27, 2009 08:21:40 AM
I have tried both pizza places and to be honest Amy’s is original and delicious. Radiuis is lame and does not satisy the taste buds. Please vote Amy. Am
Posted by: KOPP, Aug 27, 2009 07:54:58 AM
@Commenters—there is no choice or preference by the editors. As Mike W. noted, the blurbs are adapted from previous reviews the magazine has written of each place. Thanks for reading and voting!
Posted by: Catherine (washingtonian.com), Aug 27, 2009 07:54:17 AM
I have yet to eat at either place, but I have to agree that the descriptions of the two restaurants are noticeably different.
Posted by: opinionatedfeline, Aug 27, 2009 07:23:24 AM
It really is suspicious, especially since Radius isn’t *run* by a Poste and Black’s alum, but also *owned* by one. And the list is so much longer than Kalamata olives and pancetta, not to mention the fact that the place has made a complete turnaround recently. We all know 2 Amy’s is the local darling, but please give Radius a fair fight!
Posted by: suspect, Aug 27, 2009 06:37:06 AM
Guess "#2" and "Sway?" haven’t been paying close attention to the contest since the start. All the descriptions were written before the contest, using language from earlier reviews in the Washingtonian in many places. So matches between any two restaurants are determined by the results of the previous round(s). The descriptions of one or the other have nothing to do with who they’re up against in the current round. Why do so many people look for bias?
Posted by: Mike W., Aug 27, 2009 05:37:37 AM
Sounds like the description of Amy’s is the favored pizza by the writer. No detailed bells and whistles for Radius. Hummm - wonder why that is?? Are you really trying to keep this "contest fair"??
Posted by: #2, Aug 26, 2009 06:58:34 PM
Is it just me, or does each of the "contests" have an obvious first "choice" by whoever wrote the blurb? This week, the words "gem" and "Line out the door" and lovingly descriptive character of 2Amy’s comes shining through while the description of Radius is simple and to the point listing only toppings and without a mention of the owner or type of pizza. Just a thought, seems fishy.
Posted by: Sway?, Aug 26, 2009 06:24:24 PM
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