Jumbo Slice appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Jumbo slice · Washington DC
An eighteen-inch foldable pizza slice sold past 2am along Adams Morgan's 18th Street strip, the closing-time meal that absorbs a Saturday night.
The jumbo slice was born on 18th Street NW in Adams Morgan as a late-1990s response to the corridor's late-night bar crowd. Pizza Mart, opened around 1999, and Duccini's Pizza both lay claim to popularising the format: eighteen-inch slices cut from a thirty-inch pie, served folded in foil after 22:00 and especially after 02:00. The slices are designed for the after-bar walk, not for serious eating; the cheese-to-sauce ratio is engineered for absorption rather than balance. The Pizza Mart-Duccini's rivalry runs the strip; both stay open until 04:00 on weekends. The slice has become a DC visual shorthand, written about in Washingtonian's late-night annual round-ups and parodied locally as the city's anti-tasting menu.
Where to eat in Washington DC:
- Pizza Mart Adams Morgan
- Duccini's Pizza Adams Morgan
- Jumbo Slice Pizza