Menomale
Pizza restaurant · Brookland ·
Wood-fired Neapolitan pizzas, panuozzos, calzones & craft beers
Wood-fired Neapolitan pizzas, panuozzos, calzones & craft beers
"If you want to eat pizza on a date, this tiny restaurant near Catholic University is your best option. You’ll sit shoulder-to-shoulder with priests, professors, and undergrads, and all try to avoid bumping into each other while downing pizza made with four different cheeses. Neapolitan pies, like the Diavola covered in spicy salami, basil, and red peppers, are slathered in a tart sauce and piled high with toppings. The pies can sometimes get soggy in the center, so we’d suggest asking if they’ll give your pizza a couple extra minutes in the oven." - tristiana hinton, allison robicelli, omnia saed
"Menomale, a pizzeria in Brookland, is the kind of place where longtime lovers rekindle their flame over pizza and the soothing sounds of Etta James and Nat King Cole. The converted rowhouse is intimate but casual, with just 20 seats and a bar so small you can’t even sit at it. There’s a tiny patio outside, as well, but if you sit there you won’t get to walk through the kitchen and past the mosaic-tiled pizza oven. There's better Neapolitan pizza in the city, but it’s worth 20 bucks and pairs well with the Happy Hour wines. Plus they give you scissors to cut it if you get it unsliced." - tristiana hinton, omnia saed
"The cozy Neapolitan place in Brookland sources ingredients from the Campania region of Italy and boasts a crust that sets the bar for elasticity in D.C. The dough doubles as the bread for wood-fired panuozzo sandwiches full of Italian cured meats and fresh mayonnaise. It’s open for dine-in and takeout six days a week (closed Tuesdays). A second outpost in NoMa also offers a rectangular Roman-style pizza decorated edge to edge in toppings like bolognese sauce or salami and artichokes." - Tierney Plumb, Eater Staff
"I note that Brookland pizzeria Menomale has been burglarized yet again this week; the owners have publicly spoken in support of legislation to combat the city’s crime crisis, which they say is causing many D.C. establishments to close." - Tierney Plumb
"The cozy Neapolitan place in Brookland sources ingredients from the Campania region of Italy and boasts a crust that sets the bar for elasticity in D.C. The dough doubles as the bread for wood-fired panuozzo sandwiches full of Italian cured meats and fresh mayonnaise. It’s open for dine-in and takeout six days a week (closed Tuesdays). A year-old outpost in NoMa also offers a rectangular Roman-style pizza decorated edge to edge in toppings like bolognese sauce or salami and artichokes." - Eater Staff