The old Rib Pit Lounge in Petworth didn’t look like much when Jackie Greenbaum and Gordon Banks got their hands on it. A long-dormant club connected to a barbecue joint next door — the lounge may have been a gentlemen’s club, offering a smoking-hot experience of a different sort — the one-story space was gutted. All Greenbaum and Banks found inside were a giant safe and a barely functional toilet. “It was a shell in the truest sense of the word,” Greenbaum says.

The owners sank more money than they care to admit into renovating and expanding the space into Little Coco’s, an 80-plus-seat, two-story spot that feels like an aging anarchist’s take on an Italian trattoria. Iconic boomer-era images — Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” cover, E.T. and Elliott silhouetted against the moon on their bike, Mr. Spock offering the Vulcan salute — have been reimagined in paintings that replace certain elements with pizza. The prism on the Floyd album? It’s now a slice.