Former fine-dining chef Tony Conte produces destination-worthy pizza topped with items like in-season creamed corn and lemon ricotta at this strip mall hideaway outside of Gaithersburg. Open for takeout and dine-in at 5 p.m., Wednesday to Saturday, until the dough runs out.     

The long-running, upper Northwest neighborhood pizza parlor has made a name for itself with a pepperoni and jalapeno “hottie,” a mushroom and bacon “smoky,” and a clam-packed “Yalie.” The lemony chickpea salad has a following in its own right, and the house ranch is the perfect dip for pizza crusts. There’s a convenient carryout tent with picnic tables, a bar, and fire pits in the parking lot out back, and the dining room is back to operating on a first-come, first-served basis.

Former Eater Young Gun Daniela Moreira works wonders with her wood-fired oven in the close quarters of this neighborhood spot in Petworth, producing specialty pies with ingredients like cured chorizo, beef bolognese, roasted sweet potatoes, and kale. The small dining room opens at 5 p.m. Weekend breakfast starting at 8 a.m. brings on wood-fired empanadas and bagels from popular sibling spot Call Your Mother deli. The Timber family added an offshoot in Ballston’s Quarter Market food hall, called Turu’s, that sells sturdier pizzas closer to a New York-style pie. Order pickup online.

These square slices of grandma-style pie on focaccia-like crust are unlike anything else in the city. A pizza garden behind the ’70s rec room style dining room in Park View offers an airy place to drink natural wines and large-format bottles of craft beer. Sonny’s is open Wednesday to Friday at 5 p.m. and weekends starting at noon. Customers can order (free) delivery or takeout. Sister bar No Kisses reopened next-door last summer.

Near the end of 2020, Tara Smith and Demetri Mechelis opened Martha Dear for takeout only, teasing customers with a panoply of savory smells wafting out of the domed pizza oven inside the lower-level space in Mt. Pleasant. The 12-inch sourdough pizzas, initially available through a limited amount of online preorders, were an instant hit, building a fast following with a uniquely bubbly dough and topping combinations like ‘nduja and peppers. Now the shop has scaled up a bit, batting back the scarcity and opening a patio where customers can eat the pizza while it’s hot, maybe alongside a bottle of Greek wine. Spring for a side of garlic-and-anchovy bagna cauda dip for dunking the crusts.

A 72-hour cold fermentation provides a hint of tang for the envelope-thin crust on this New York-style slice shop that quickly expanded since its debut in Tysons gallery. Andy’s can now be found at a pizza stand in Shaw, at Atlas Brew Works in Navy Yard, inside a NoMa apartment building, and now, at the top of Adams Morgan’s nightlife corridor. The company sells 18-inch pies and individual slices in classic flavors and specials like a popular white pie with mozzarella, provolone, roasted cremini mushrooms, and caramelized onions. One fun wrinkle at Andy’s is the ability to order a whole pizza with a different flavor on every slice. Order takeout or delivery online.

Lahlou Restaurant Group expanded its Logan Circle reach last summer with the addition of a casual pizzeria next to pasta parlor Lupo Verde. An Italian brick oven set to 700 degrees sends out popular pies like a classic Margherita, spicy pie with salami and Calabrian chiles, or creative carbonara variety with pecorino cream, pork cheek, egg yolk, and black pepper. Chef Juan Olivera adds squid ink to the dough of another pizza for a natural sea salt taste, finished with calamari, prawns, and mussels.

Pupatella may have humble roots — it started out as a food cart in neighboring Ballston a decade ago — but its reputation as a source for certified Neapolitan pizza has only grown since. The Northern Virginia-based company now has a D.C. location in Dupont Circle with a second en route to Capitol Hill. Order online for pickup, with dine-in available indoors and across its patio.

Italian owners Antonio Matarazzo and Matteo Venini brought this bright, counter-service place to the Union Market neighborhood in April 2019. Venini’s hit neo-Neapolitan pies — boosted by high-hydration dough and a 48-hour fermentation — include a cacio e pepe variety with pecorino Romano, buffalo mozzarella, and toasted black pepper. Its patio is open on a first-come, first-served basis, along with takeout, delivery, and indoor/outdoor seating from Tuesdays to Sundays. Stellina recently added a Mt. Vernon Triangle outpost and has a Northern Virginia location in the Village at Shirlington, too.

Flavors from chef Mike Friedman’s New Jersey childhood take on new life on deck oven-baked crusts topped with ingredients spanning from hen-of-the-woods mushrooms to ‘nduja and capicola bacon. The original can be found in Shaw, and its waterfront sibling is in Navy Yard. A casual AP Pizza Shop is coming to Bethesda in 2022. Start with the baked eggplant Parm, and save half of your pizza for later. Open at 5 p.m. for takeout in Shaw and Navy Yard, delivery via DoorDash and Caviar, and on-site dining, with weekend brunch now available at both.

This local haven for wood-fired pizzas and craft beer, founded by chef Ruth Gresser in 1991, offers a long list of 9- or 12-inch pies for indoor/outdoor dining and takeout or delivery. In addition to Georgetown and Dupont Circle, Pizzeria Paradiso boasts outposts sit in Spring Valley and Hyattsville, Maryland. On Thursday, July 21, its Dupont location bids farewell to D.C.’s 3 Stars Brewing with a tap takeover of its best-known beers. And on Sunday, July 24, Paradiso’s annual Christmas in July event is back with wintery brews and festive holiday decor.

Some pizza aficionados argue that this is the closest thing D.C. can get to a true New York-style pizzeria. The local chain serves thin slices, potent garlic knots, chicken rolls, and even Sicilian pies. Wiseguy has four locations and counting (Chinatown, Navy Yard, Rosslyn, and Pentagon City). The beloved brand was just snapped up by Thompson Hospitality and will likely balloon in size soon.

Jason Johnston, the former executive chef at MGM National Harbor, brought Ballston the pizza parlor of his dreams last spring. The counter service-style neighborhood restaurant focuses on what Johnston describes as “Brooklyn-style” pizza that he forms with Caputo flour and Grande Italian cheese before baking in a deck oven at 600 degrees. Slices start at $4 by the slice, and whole pies are $19. An array of pizza flavors includes cacio y pepe and a clam-topped New Haven option.

This pizza stand inside the Roost food hall in Capitol Hill provides an all-too-convenient meal for fellow vendors who swear by the New York-style pieces that spill over the edges of white paper plates. Owner Rachel Marie, who spent four years at Roberta’s in Brooklyn before partnering with Neighborhood Restaurant Group to open the original Slice Joint in New York, brings joy to plain cheese purists first but has plenty of other tricks in store. There are white pies, spicy pepperoni square pies, and creative specials like eggplant Parm pizza. Open daily at 11 a.m.

A small side door at Scarlet Oak in Navy Yard explains the name behind the ghost kitchen inside that’s been going strong since at fall 2020 debut. Neighborhood regulars flock to the mini takeout operation to pick up Detroit-style pizzas baked with Wisconsin brick and mozzarella cheeses and finished with a double racing stripe of zesty pizza sauce. There’s cheese, pepperoni, and a “Fahgettaboudit” option that piles on homemade Italian sausage, roasted peppers, and grilled onions. Co-owner Brian Schram was inspired to bring Detroit-style pies to Navy Yard after a visit to underground L.A. hotspot Dough Daddy while quarantining out West.

Tom Cardarelli, the former chef at Vermillion in Old Town, was working on a plan to open his own place when the pandemic began. Instead, he and his wife, Annalisa, opened a Roman-style pizza trailer named after the straciatella cheese he makes by soaking freshly pulled mozzarella in cream. Stracci then took over a coffee and wine bar in Del Ray, finding a long-term parking spot while adding outdoor seating and an indoor bar for craft beers, Italian wines, and apertivos. Order pickup online.