The Georgetown location is now home to Paradiso Game Room, a space for drinking beer, eating pizza, and playing games like Skee-Ball, Big Buck Hunter, shuffleboard, pinball, and darts. The spot opens today in the restaurant’s basement, which used to house its beer bar, Birreria Paradiso.

Homegrown chain Pizzeria Paradiso is getting more playful as it matures, replacing the subterranean beer bar at its 16-year-old Georgetown location with a new gaming mecca packed with Skee-Ball, pinball, and video games.

Chef/owner Ruth Gresser of Pizzeria Paradiso and her team debuted Paradiso Game Room, located in the downstairs bar of Pizzeria Paradiso Georgetown with nine arcade games, a jukebox, happy hour, an  canned beer menu, and the ability to order Pizzeria Paradiso’s classic Neapolitan pizzas.

Chef/owner Ruth Gresser of Pizzeria Paradiso and her team will debut Paradiso Game Room, located in the downstairs bar of Pizzeria Paradiso Georgetown on January 12th.

The space maintains the warm, comfy feel that defines a Pizzeria Paradiso location, but it feels like a new bar. It’s being treated like one, too. There’s a separate entrance in the back. The hours of operation will stretch to 1:00 in the morning. The beer offerings have been streamlined to eight draft lines and a prominently displayed fridge filled with nearly 60 different canned options.

The 33rd annual RAMMY Awards, a.k.a. the Oscars for Washington’s restaurant industry, unfolded Sunday night at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.