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Message: [QUOTE="Mazhude, post: 4261982, member: 2960"] [URL='https://www.facebook.com/FrankPepes/photos/a.1711181232251116/4978831848819355/']Pepe's Opening Monday in Bethesda, MD[/URL] Connecticut-based pizza chain [URL='https://www.pepespizzeria.com/']Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana[/URL] is expanding to Bethesda and Alexandria. The 97-year-old company plans on opening in early July at 3231 Duke Street in the [URL='https://www.alexandriacommons.com/']Alexandria Commons Shopping Center[/URL], according to an email to ALXnow. Frank Pepe’s, which is widely lauded as a [URL='https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/101-best-pizzas-america-2020']classic old school pizza parlor[/URL], is also opening its first location in the region on March 28 in [URL='https://www.pepespizzeria.com/']Bethesda, Maryland.[/URL] The chain offers delivery, and is well known for pizza with a chewy, slightly charred crust. “It may have taken nearly a century for America’s best pizza to arrive in the DMV, but we are thrilled to finally be here,” said Jennifer Kelly, granddaughter of founder Frank Pepe. “These are our family’s original recipes… We even replicated our signature coal-fired, hand-built brick oven using iron castings from the original restaurant.” [/QUOTE]