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3006 Duke St., Alexandria, Va.
(703) 370-4303
Hours of Operation and Prices
Summer Hours: Sun-Th 11-11, F-Sat 11-midnight
Winter Hours: Closed one hour earlier each day
Lunch Entrees: $6-$11
Dinner Entrees: $6-$14
Pre-Theater: M-F 3-6, $2-$3 off select entrees
Other Information
• Discovery, MasterCard, Visa
• Dress: casual
• No Reservations
• Free parking lot
• Handicapped accessible
• For the two other Virginia branches of Generous George, which have mostly similar hours, menus and prices: 7031 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, Va., (703) 941-9600, and 6131 Backlick Rd., Springfield, Va., (703) 451-7111.
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Generous George is a high-volume, much-loved pizza fun house strewn with '50s kitsch where everything is turned into a pizza. Even the pastas are served on a pizza crust. This restaurant knows what it's about, because the pizza crust is its strongest suit. It's puffy and crispy, yeasty and chewy, a dreamboat pizza crust. And if you are looking to enjoy it at rock-bottom prices, go at lunch on a weekday. That's when personal-size pizzas are available.
I like the combo with everything - fennel-spiked sausage, pepperoni, black olives, Canadian bacon, peppers, Genoa salami, quartered fresh mushrooms, slices of fresh tomato (and, I confess, anchovies). It's like an open-face pizza sandwich, so thick are the fillings. And it's enough for 1 1/2 people. So I'd bring a couple of friends, order two combos and three bathtub-sized iced teas. I'd skip the pastas and the salad, which is overpriced for iceberg lettuce and bottled dressing. Maybe the regular pizza is as good a bargain or better, but the personal pizza serves more crust per portion, and that's the point of this pizza, after all.
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