For deep dish pizza, few different spots are as beloved as DC Chi Pie, whose proprietor Grant Thompson fell in love with the pie and subsequently taught himself how you can make the fluffiest, richest model within the District amid the pandemic. Now, the banners above the carryout counter in its modest Capitol Heights storefront and on its web site not so modestly declare it “the most effective deep dish pizza within the DMV,” and The Submit’s Tim Carman is inclined to agree. As he wrote in his 2022 review: “This pie was a dense puck, completely spherical, its thick, imposing crust wanting like fort partitions that needed to be scaled. The sauce was, in keeping with deep-dish traditions, evenly distributed throughout the floor, and a row of overlapping pepperoni slices fashioned a cool stripe down the center of the pie, every circle blackened on the a part of the sausage uncovered to the excessive warmth of the oven. This factor had heft, too, like the load of an excellent pan. You might really feel its high quality in your arms.”
Della Barba Pizza on Capitol Hill doesn’t simply serve Chicago-style slices (although, after all, there’s loads of debate about whether or not Chicago’s signature slice is deep dish or tavern-style pizza); it additionally presents New York-style skinny crust along with the marginally denser “Nonna” fashion and the even denser Detroit fashion. As per the necessities for deep dish pizza, Della Barba makes its crust with cornmeal, a significant contributor to that signature fluffiness and taste. Select your fashion, then select from its lengthy listing of toppings, starting from classics like pepperoni and cremini mushrooms to extra uncommon choices like charred kale and shaved fennel — and sure, it has pineapple, too.
Among the many loudest and proudest Midwesterners in D.C. are Josh Saltzman and Chris Powers, co-owners of Shaw’s Ivy and Coney, recently named one of D.C.’s best dive bars. The multilevel house is top-to-bottom Windy Metropolis, however The Submit’s group favors its Detroit-style Italian Beef-Za, which fuses two favorites into one completely hearty bar meals — or a traditional Italian beef sandwich for those who’d fairly have the unique. When you’re completely tremendous with out the meat, it additionally presents a giardiniera pizza; or you possibly can go for a Chicago-style scorching canine, amongst different Midwestern choices. And, for bonus factors, it presents joyful hours and offers nearly every day: Mondays are half-price pizzas, Tuesday has half-price Italian beef sandwiches, and daily has its signature “Chicago Handshake,” an $8 pint of Outdated Fashion or lager paired with a shot of anise-and-wormwood-flavored Chicagoan liquor Malort.