B Map A pleasant place housed in an old building with an outdoor terrace; the wood-oven pizzas are great, pasta less so.

But dishes like wood-oven pizza with artichokes and roasted peppers, and Long Island duck salad with grilled eggplant and dried fruit, still bear his exuberant, well-seasoned stamp.

The wood-oven pizzas at Pizzeria Paradiso, P Street between 20th and 21st Streets NW, are dead ringers for the crisp-crusted pies of Naples.

The wood-oven pizzas and the chicken, steak and salmon grills are all good choices.

There are a meatless wood-oven pizza, a grilled Berkshire pork chop and sausage link, and Long Island skate wing with chickpea and littleneck clam broth.

Best entree choices are the wood-oven pizzas, made with the thinnest, crispiest crusts.

The wood-oven pizzas, at under $10, were very good, and a tasty T-bone steak (about $18) could easily serve two.

The wood-oven pizzas are delicious and big enough to share.

Come here for tasty wood-oven pizzas and a charming terrace perfect for enjoying La Palma's mild nights, or even for after-dinner drinks.