Brookland, DC dive bar, Dew Drop Inn (circa 2015), and outdoor wood-fired pizza pop-up, Lazy Bones Pizza, have coexisted through a symbiotic, permanent vendor partnership since the Spring of 2025. Lazy Bones operates a physical stand that includes a substantial wood-fired oven.
On a warm Tuesday evening, DishingPizza relaxed its focus on pizza, seduced by the carnival atmosphere at The Dew Drop Inn. Vendors were selling artwork and clothing. A tarot card reader occupied a picnic table on the patio. Music was playing. Folks were dressed in western wear. This crowd was the antithesis of the buttoned-up policy wonks populating DC. A cool vibe.
The patrons were ethnically diverse, but mostly in their twenties or thirties. Seeking the bar, DishingPizza peeked into a large room filled with women line dancing. It wasn’t until the obtuse DishingPizza entered the crowded upstairs bar for drinks that it realized everyone in the room identified as female.
DishingPizza had inadvertently stumbled into Dew Drop’s every third-Tuesday-of-the-month Dyke Party. This party featured line dancing by DC Rawhides, an organization promoting country western dancing among the LGBT community. Some of the partiers might have wondered if DishingPizza had fallen down a rabbit hole, but they were joyfully accepting.1
After constructing a concrete pizza oven in their parents’ DC backyard, brothers Luke and Alex Richardson started Lazy Bones Pizza in 2024. The brothers conceived Lazy Bones as a mobile have-pizza-will-travel concept. Although their Dew Drop Inn spot isn’t exactly bricks and mortar, the Lazy Bones Pizza setup looks semi-permanent. Likely, the steady income from the Dewdrop Inn partnership throttled the Richardsons’ wanderlust enough for them to remove the wheels from their mobile pizza oven.
When it comes to pizza, DishingPizza isn’t nearly as accepting as this low-key crowd. Lazy Bones has an efficient setup where they take your order and text you when it’s ready. Even on a very crowded night, the pizza took ten minutes.
Lazy Bones Pizza can be seen through two different lenses. Viewed as bar pizza, it’s a perfect accompaniment to Dew Drop’s cold beer. Typically, bar pizza is meh, and Lazy Bones Pizza is a cut above. Viewed as a standalone pizza, Lazy Bones is lacking. The thin, sourdough crust is limp, too thin to support cheese and tomato sauce, even without toppings. The cheese is salty and ordinary, although the tomato sauce tastes fresh. Sadly, Lazy Bones is on the lower end of DMV Neopolitan wood-fired pizzas. That said, the pizza and beer go down fine at the convivial Dew Drop Inn party.
Dew Drop Inn occupies an odd-looking triangular brick-and-cinderblock building formerly inhabited by stonemasons and metalworkers. The gritty location alongside the train tracks dovetails nicely with the Inn’s dive bar2 vibe. The Lazy Bones pizza, in itself, isn’t worth a special trip, but there are few spots in the DMV that rival Dew Drop Inn’s exceptionally festive, artsy, and welcoming atmosphere.
Lazy Bones Pizza
Dew Drop Inn
2801 8th St NE, Washington, DC 20017
Type: Neapolitan Wood-fired
Pizza quality: 🍕🍕
Overall experience: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Pie (12″): $17.00
Pie price per square inch: $0.15
Sorry the pizza wasn’t great. It even looks mediocre in the pic.
I enjoyed reading this and I liked your pictures a lot too.