There’s a pizza place in town called Jim’s Pizza & Pasta. Whenever we walked by, we’d say ‘we should try it.’ So I put it on the list.

The coolest thing about Jim’s is the pizza stands. They use old-fashioned, stainless steel pizza stands at the table. It reminds me of Barrel Pizza in Richmond Hill. Barrel Pizza was my family’s go-to restaurant for a few years when I was growing up. At one point we would go every Friday night. The food was good and the place was packed. They showed Laurel and Hardy on a screen, and served the pizza on those old-fashioned stands.

Barrel Pizza stayed open for many years after it stopped being a packed restaurant. We always wondered how they could stay open when we’d go once a year and be the only table. Then, they closed.

If Barrel Pizza was still around, it would have been on my Top 40 list. Instead, we went to Jim’s Pizza & Pasta, ate garlic bread with cheese and a 14” pizza with pepperoni, mushrooms and meatballs, and relived a childhood memory.

The pizza was surprisingly Barrel-esque. Now I have to try the spaghetti and meatballs.

I had wine. He had beer. We both ate all the free bread.

There’s DC, serving our pepperoni, mushroom and meatball pizza