Introduction to September 16, 2023:…read more
Continuing alphabet series, P is for Pizza Corner representing 2023 and looks like I'm only the 9th Yelp review for this place. Like the last 2 reviews I wrote (Aug. 2021 & Sept. 2022), this was yet another interesting day on a weekend! Poke It Up in Pentagon City Mall, the last review was Saturday, 9/17/22. This was exactly one year later on Saturday, 9/16/23. This was the day of the H St Festival; so how did I end up on U St? That day of the H St Festival, I made a new friend. My friend lived walking distance to H St, and I met his roommate who was cool and became a friend.
The roommate worked at a couple of area restaurant/bars. We took the bus to downtown, which was my 1st time taking the bus in the area (except once when I lived in Arlington in 2016), which I found to be pretty efficient. We got hooked up with a free cocktail through his work. They were talking about seeing a movie at Regal Gallery Place. I wasn't that interested in what they were seeing, and I also said that I'm AMC A-List so I see up to 3 movies a week, and there was a movie I wanted to see at AMC Georgetown, which I decided on the bus again. We went our separate ways to our respective movie theaters. I'm glad I went to that movie because it was my favorite movie of September, and incidentally, in its 6th week of release, I finally got around to seeing that movie they ended up going to, and it ended up being the worst of October for me!
They had talked about going to a Pinball/arcade on 14th St. near Rhode Island Ave. I did the bus again for a 3rd time that day from Georgetown to 14th St. When I had gotten over there, he had said that they were tired and decided to go home. So, I checked out the place on my own and decided I'd eat a late dinner somewhere. I was thinking about grabbing pizza on U St, but it was a bit of a walk. I decided to walk north on 14th and see what was along the way. 14th was mostly sit-down restaurants. I was by myself and wanted something relatively quick. Ultimately, I ended up on U. I knew about Duccini's Pizza was the best of the 3 I had before in Adams Morgan, which was near the corner of 18th, U, & Florida Ave. But ultimately, I saw this place had good reviews and was only one block from turning left from 14th St. as opposed to Duccini's, 4 blocks away. So, I was game to try this place.
Experience here:
As I recall, seating inside was a bit cramped, and there was more room outside, which I opted to eat outside as it was nice that night. Staff was nice. I don't recall if I drank a free courtesy cup of water, or if I didn't bother with asking and buying a drink as it as like 9:45 PM and didn't want to waste time. But I do remember the staff was nice, and I feel like they did give me water, or I had observed someone else who had a water cup.
I got a steak topping slice, which was delicious. Wow, this blew most pizza places out of the water. This little known pizza slice on a less busy part of U St., the northwest corner at 15th St. I had Duccini's like 10 years ago, but this was on par and maybe even a little better, which is saying a lot. If I was looking for pizza around here, I'd return to Pizza Corner.