M&N's Pizza, Old Georgetown Road and Fairmont Avenue in Downtown Bethesda

[Pool Boy]

M&N's Pizza is so weird and yet so awesome.

It is in a micro turret shaped building. They sell beer, too. They make mostly average pizza. But they make two pizzas of note. One of them for the pure awesome hilarity of it and the other because it actually tastes good!

My coworkers discovered this place years ago and it has become the defacto place the company orders pizzas from for office things. Office lunches or meetings. Whatever. Like I said, most of it is just so blerghishly average. But the guy running the place is so friendly and nice that you just want to buy more stuff from him. He's infectious.

That being said they make a cheeseburger pizza. I know, I know. What the hell?! Close your eyes, breath in the vapor through opened mouth and nose, as you inhal-o-latch in to the first bite and what do you think? McDonald's Cheeseburger. I kid you not. It's probably been 15 years since I had one of those things. Maybe longer. But it somehow is so universally known that it just is. This is that cheeseburger in pie form. Pure awesome hilarity.

The other one, despite having average crust, sauce and cheese, is the Spicy Thai pizza. I am not really a fan of thematic pizzas, but I'm game to try it. It may not be exactly Thai, it is pizza after all, and even though the flavors are not purely authentic Thai, it oddly scratches the bizzaro itch you did not know you had. It's a devious pizza because all you really want is the flavor and not the average crust.

Is it a place you want to go to and eat? Maybe not, at least maybe not more than a few times, but I'll bet you'll be back if only for the guy running it and that damn Spicy Thai pizza.

[mnnchas]

M&N's is a funny location for sure.  Tucked into a small office complex with no parking (public garage is across Old Georgetown).  Does anyone know the original use of their castle-like building?

 As far as mediocre convertor belt pizzas in Bethesda, the prices are a bit on the high side, but we definitely prefer M&N to its competitors in the area (Tempo; Naked; Besta; Bel Piatto or whatever they call that place now).  The gentleman running things has left an impression with me as well: exceptionally helpful when we had an order mixup.

When we are too lazy to pickup Vace, M&N's is our preferred delivery pizza here.

[gswagner]

I have to add a recommendation for the spicy chicken curry pizza.  "Scratching an itch you didn't know you had" is exactly right.

[pras]

I am amazed I never knew this place existed and I can walk from my office in about 5 minutes.  My office buys lunch on the last two days of the month, and today's choice by the office manager was M&N.  When I looked at the menu, I was amazed.  Choices range from pizza, to wings, to sandwiches, to curry.  No pork is served here so anything which you would assume to be pork is either beef (pepperoni) or turkey (ham and bacon, etc.).  Although I was intrigues by the spicy curry chicken pizza, the price was outside of the limit (you can only get this pie in a large).  I settled on the spicy Szechuan chicken pizza (extra spicy).  This pizza is no joke.  I can't even explain the flavors, but they work and the spice level is high, but adds a good depth for me.  Next time, I have to try the curry chicken.  BTW, I am told that the other India fare on the menu is very good.