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Pizza may be common, but it is not commonly good.

---My picks for the best are:

"Pizzeria Paradiso" (P Street between Dupont Circle and 21st Street)
			-Great gourmet brick oven pizza; consistent food quality; small dining
room, which makes it hard to get seating on weekends; down to earth
servers.
"Coppi's" (U Street between 14th and 15th Sts.)
			-Great (sometimes) gourmet brick oven pizza; food quality is not always
consistent, but when it's good, it's very good; menu changes regularly; CD
juke box; down to earth servers.

---AVOID:

"Bertucci's" (GWU)
			-Unlike the original Bertucci's restaurants in the Boston area, this
Bertucci's is lame. The pizza is consistently bad; the place is full of
college brats; and, the service is mediocre.

"California Pizza Kitchen" (Friendship Hts. and elsewhere)
			-Despite the rage, what you get is not what you'd expect for the price.
The "corporate" style service staff is nice, but is constantly rattling off
memorized "good service" lines and is always trying to get you to spend
more.

---Worth the try:

"Il Radicchio" (17th Street between P and Q Sts.)
			-Not quite as good as Paradiso or Coppi's but the gourmet brick oven
pizza is good and unlike Coppi's and Paradiso, Il Radicchio also has items
other than pizza. Rather plastic wait staff.

Anyone else have out-of-this-world recommendations??? Places to definitely
avoid???