This DC Pizza Place Among Nation's Best, NYT Says In New Ranking

WASHINGTON, DC — Pizza is possibly the most eaten food in the United States of America.

According to a 2015 Washington Post article, Americans eat 3 billion pizzas a year. That works out to 46 slices, or 23 pounds of 'za, per person annually.

So where is the best pizza place in the nation?

According to a new list from The New York Times, the best pizza in Washington, D.C., is in Georgetown.

The newspaper didn't include any specific metrics for the list, but said it was a "road map to a uniquely American phenomenon."

Yellow got the shoutout by Times writer Brett Anderson. The pizza place also received a nod from Michelin in 2023.

Located at 1524 Wisconsin Ave. NW, the restaurant is open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday and 4 to 9 pm Tuesday Saturday.

Featuring Maryland's iconic crab and a cracker-thin crust makes Little Donna's stands apart from other pizza restaurants, Anderson writes. Little Donna’s also made The New York Times’s 2023 list of the nation’s most exciting restaurants.

Owner " Michael Rafidi decided to create a pizza pop-up at his Georgetown bakery during Covid lockdowns. The kitchen was already equipped with a wood-fire oven for pita bread. Mr. Rafidi found himself deploying harissa and other ingredients he encountered making pizza-adjacent dishes, like sfeehas and manoushe, with his Palestinian grandparents while growing up. … Rafidi turned Yellow, a Levantine bakery, into a Levantine pizzeria by night called (not) pizza. … The savory pies rival any craft pizza you’ll find. Don’t forget to save room for some labneh soft-serve," Anderson wrote.

"YELLOW Georgetown brings you (not) pizza ... a sourdough celebration of Levantine flavors, fired in our YELLOW wood-burning oven at 700 degrees - it looks an awful lot like pizza, but it's (not)," according to their website.

Check out Yellow online here.

See The New York Times' full list of the 22 best pizzerias in the nation here.