Sorriso

DC has always had Galileo-class Italian restaurants. Prix-Fixe, $100+ / person, etc.

Below that there were no other options until you get to the glorified Olive Garden style places. Mediocre food, over-emphasis on South Italian cuisine (pasta), no wine list worth mentioning.

Well, there are now two great places to go out to, within a block of the Uptown; Dino and this restaurant, Sorisso.
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I loved everything I had; do note that not all of the Crostini options are worthwhile. (Some are, but which is which I have forgotten)

The Washingtonian has this to say:

Pietro Polles retired after 26 years at the World Bank to pursue his passion of cooking. He moved to his vineyard in Italy, where he makes his own Merlot, and attended cooking school. He modeled his restaurant, Sorriso, near the Uptown Theater, on family-run places in the Friuli and Veneto regions. When son Stefano finished college, he went to Italy for training and took over the restaurant’s pizza-making operation. The result is a friendly—the women of the family run the front of the house—first-rate pizzeria with a menu of carefully prepared antipasti, pastas, and main courses.