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100 Very Best Restaurants: – All Purpose

Written by Washingtonian Staff | Published on January 25, 2023
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Duke #7 Pizza. Photograph courtesy of All Purpose.

About All Purpose

cuisines
Italian
Location(s)
1250 9th St NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20001-4882
79 Potomac Ave SE
Washington, District of Columbia 20003-3671
Awards
100 Very Best 2017 100 Very Best 2018 100 Very Best 2019 100 Very Best 2020 100 Very Best 2023 100 Very Best 2024

The crisp-bottomed, Jersey-style pizzas, stretched from a dough that ferments for three days and finished in a deck oven, are what these Shaw and Navy Yard restaurants are best known for. Precede your pie—we like the pepperoni-and-honey Buona and the sausage-­and-peppers Duke #7—with a zingy house salad (like the innards of a great Italian sub), a round of fried Brussels sprouts with orange yogurt, or a gooey eggplant parm. The places also host a bang-up happy hour and brunch. Moderate.

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