Best Pizza In Virginia Fired Up Neapolitan Style

ARLINGTON, VA – There's pizza, and then there's the best pizza in Virginia. If you want to have someone else fix dinner tonight, why not try what The Daily Meal calls the Commonwealth's best: Pupatella Neapolitan Pizza in Arlington.

Pupatella Neapolitan Pizza, located at 5104 Wilson Blvd., was named Virginia's best and one of the websites 101 best pizzas in America.

The website says of the pizzeria:

"Pupatella originated as a food truck in 2007 and went brick-and-mortar three years later. This two-room storefront with the sign out front that warns "Pizza Addicts Only" is the D.C. culmination of Enzo Algarme’s experience hanging around the some 200 or so pizzerias in Naples where he was born. Pupatella, a name borrowed from a late relative, is run by Algarme and his life (and business) partner Anastasiya Laufenberg. Their oven’s bricks were built using volcanic ash from Vesuvius — hard to get more authentic than that outside Naples.

They offer red and white pies — mostly the former — with accoutrements such as ham and mushroom, prosciutto and arugula, chorizo, sausage and onion, eggplant and red pepper on top. But Pupatella’s most popular pie is the Capricciosa (featuring sautéed mushrooms, marinated artichokes, prosciutto cotto, and fresh mozzarella)."

The restaurant's pizza maker, Enzo Algarme, was born in raised in Naples, Italy. Since he moved to the U.S. 12 years ago, he has been driven to open a pizzeria where he would make pizzas the way they are made by Neapolitans. He has trained in Naples on pizza making, and the business website says he uses only ingredients imported from Naples for making his Margherita.

Details

• Phone: (571) 312-7230 (Warning that they don't take phone orders on busy nights)
• Hours: Tuesday through Saturday: 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sunday: Noon to 9 p.m.
• Website: Pupatella.com Order online for pickup at the Arlington location; here's the menu.

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