The fifth Pizzeria Paradiso location boasts everything fans have come to expect from Ruth Gresser’s 27-year-old pizza-and-craft beer chain, with the added bonus of extra room.

Spring Valley was a natural place for the owner of one of the area’s most popular chain-lettes to open a fifth branch.

Pizzeria Paradiso will be opening its fifth and largest location this November. Guests can expect the same beloved menu, equipped with a menu full of neapolitan pizzas, salads, and appetizers.

Pizzeria Paradiso’s biggest location to date is expected to arrive in Spring Valley later this month, bringing the neighborhood near American University a new source for wood-fired pies with a side of arcade games.

One of the great things about D.C. is that everyone ends up here for different reasons.

Pizzeria Paradiso – a living, breathing minotaur, conveniently located in four (and soon-to-be-five) locations.

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.