Ledo Pizza, Washington, D.C.

Last night, Robert invited me up to his place in Tacoma for a visit. We walked over to the Georgia Avenue commercial strip, where he took me to dinner at Ledo Pizza.

Ledo is an 80 restaurant chain of derivative pizzerias located mostly along the mid-Atlantic coast. Maryland and Virginia are full of them, but I've never gone to one before. This particular store is in a former Pizza Hut. The menu also includes pasta entrees, calzone, sandwiches, and salads, in addition to a wide variety of available interesting pizza toppings.

We had a medium pepperoni pizza. The pizzas at Ledo are all rectangular, instead of round. They arrive at the table on rounded-corner plastic trays reminiscent of cafeteria trays. Our pizza was neatly cut into twenty square pieces, with a rather thick slice of pepperoni centered in each piece. I found the pizza to be quite pleasant. They use a fairly sweet tomato sauce, and the crust was flavorful and quite good. We split the pizza, and I was stuffed after eating my half. It was good and economical, too—even with soft drinks, the bill was only $12 for the two of us. I'll be looking forward to trying more flavors on future visits.

After leaving the pizzeria, we walked on up Georgia Avenue, crossing the Maryland line, so Robert could buy some beer and pastries at a Hispanic grocery store. The store had a food counter and a full bakery with a number of interesting Latin American confections, and he says he frequents the place. I'm not quite sure what it's called; the Spanish sign in the window translated merely into "Latin American market."