Paisano's Pizza opening Bethesda location

You wouldn't know it from walking past the empty space, but pizza is coming back to the vacant 4914 Del Ray Avenue storefront formerly home to Naked Pizza. After apparently generating more headlines than customers, Naked Pizza closed last September.

A solid source tells me the new tenant is Paisano's Pizza, a popular DC-area chain now expanding into Montgomery County. They already have restaurants in Gaithersburg and Rockville.

Paisano's Pizza was voted the best in the DC area by WTOP FM listeners in recent years. Paisano's uses Grande Cheese on their pizzas, "the finest Italian cheeses money can buy." Overall, this sounds like good news for Woodmont Triangle residents who like pizza.

&PIZZA POSTS WINDOW SIGNS AT FUTURE BETHESDA LOCATION (PHOTOS)

Signs touting &pizza went up in the windows of its future location on Old Georgetown Road in downtown Bethesda yesterday.

Unknown so far is how their first non-letter street name location will work: U &pizza, H &pizza, Old Georgetown &pizza. Hmm.

A minor detail for pizza lovers.