2 Amys
The deviled eggs at 2 Amys get curry and dry mustard in their yolks and a green sauce of parsley, chives, capers and garlic.
Why go
Peter Pastan cooked at Obelisk in Dupont Circle, and in 2022 Tom Sietsema of the Washington Post still remembered his delicious reign
there (Washington Post). He opened 2 Amys, an early champion of Neapolitan pizza, near the National Cathedral shortly after 9/11. He wanted a place for the screaming kid to your grandmother,
with dishes that don't cost a whole lot,
he told Sietsema (Washington Post). Pastan owned up to being a bit of a rule breaker in 2022. The association that sets the Neapolitan standard once sent 2 Amys a reprimand because the staff shaped pies on a peel.
Sietsema found in 2022 that the pizza still seduces me with char marks reminiscent of leopard spots,
with pleasant chewiness and a lovely yeasty flavor
(Washington Post). If you are asked whether you want it cut or whole, take it whole, as Pastan recommended in 2022, so the wet toppings don't slip into the cracks and soak the crust. Madeline Weinfield of The Infatuation found the margherita's crust in 2023 so impossibly thin it feels like a work of art
(The Infatuation).
The small plates keep pace with the pies. Sietsema wrote: No place makes more alluring deviled eggs than 2 Amys
(Washington Post). A server handed him mortadella made in the house with bread from flour the kitchen mills itself, some of the most sublime pork sausage in recent memory
(Washington Post). Washingtonian's critics ate Sicilian chickpea fritters, porchetta with Tarbais beans and a superb candied-pine-nut ice cream
from the daily specials in January 2026 (Washingtonian). Masako Morishita, the chef at Perry's, told City Cast DC in 2024: I call 2Amys my church. A lot of industry people go there
(City Cast DC). She told Fine Dining Lovers that the dairy-cow steak on steak night is always phenomenal and they only do it rare
(Fine Dining Lovers).
Weinfield found families of every generation crowding the black-and-white-tiled room, with kids darting between the chairs. Sietsema's sound check read 82 decibels in 2022, Extremely loud,
and he wrote that No one goes into a pizzeria to meditate
(Washington Post). Washingtonian's critics in 2026 found the crowd made the room feel like a dinner party that never ends
(Washingtonian).
Order this / avoid
- Order: the deviled eggs. Sietsema in 2022:
One is never enough.
1 - Order: the Pozzuoli pizza, Sietsema's pick in 2022, with house sausage,
silky red peppers
andnutty fontina.
1 - Order: the Calabrese pizza with red onions, anchovies, parsley and olives. Weinfield in 2023:
unapologetically salty and bold.
3 - Order: the supplì al telefono, fried risotto balls of tomato sauce and mozzarella
so gooey it'll probably trail halfway to your plate
to Weinfield in 2023.3 - Order: the garlicky pizza with cockles, a standing favorite of Washingtonian's critics in 2026.2
- Drink: a negroni,
top-shelf
to Weinfield in 2023.3
Good to know
- Tipping: prices include hospitality and the bill has no tip line (the house site, September 2026).
- Price: Washingtonian put dinner for two at $101 to $200 with tax and tip in January 2026.
- Steak night: Morishita put it at once or twice a week. Sietsema found it on weeknights in 2022, so ask before you go.
- Outside: a patio out back, where the house says it does not normally seat dogs.
Verdict
could-visit — Go for the Neapolitan pies and the small plates that match them, at the pizzeria Masako Morishita calls her church. Dinner for two ran $101 to $200 in January 2026, and you add nothing for service. Critics have found the room packed with families and loud since 2022.