Need Good Breakfast for 10 in DC

Someone wrote:
: Also need rec for a romantic, non-formal, great-food place for : Saturday night in DC (within range of the metro).

One of my favorite places with great food is Cafe Bethesda on Wilson Lane, near the intersection with Old Gerogetown Rd, in Bethesda.  It's about a fifteen minute walk from the Bethesda stop on the Red Line.  Cafe Bethesda is a small restaurant, with a bright cheery decor, but the draw, for me, is the excellent food.  The menu is small, but everything I have had there has been excellent.  They have a very nice black bean soup. Their scallops are superb, as is the salmon.  You can't go too often because the menu doesn't change often enough to warrant it. But certainly well worth the visit every once in a while.

Gypsy B. wrote:

>Can anyone recommend a good place for a Sunday breakfast in DC for a
>mixed crowd of pre-teens and foodie adults?  I wish I could stretch
>it into brunch hours but we'll need to finish by about 10 AM.

Sorry, I can't really help with this, since most restaurants don't serve wine with breakfast I usually eat at home ;-)

>Also need rec for a romantic,
non-formal, great-food place for>Saturday night in DC (within range of the metro).

Try New Heights, around the corner from the Woodley Park-Zoo station. Good "American" food, great service and atmosphere. They have a spring menu there now which I haven't tried, but the winter offerings were fabulous, including a wonderful salmon gravlax cured with Thai basil and lemongrass and a scallop ravioli with some Japanese sushi-fish roe that I can't remember the name of.

If you like a more traditional French, try Gaby's near Cleveland Park station, or Gerard's Place near McPherson Square (a little pricier). For Italian, Luigino's near Metro Center is good, or Obelisk near Dupont Circle (prix fixe, $35 or so for three courses, with 2 choices for each course) There is also a frufru pizza place next door called Pizzeria Paradiso. It lives up to the name.

 For Latin American with a haute cuisine
twist (ie, hard to pin it down as "ethnic", since the restaurant is upscale and romantic,) try El Patio, within walking distance of Dupont Circle (but tucked away off the street, so ask directions).

These are all moderate to maderate-expensive places. For a real splurge, try Jean-Louis at the Watergate. Jean-Louis and Gerard Pangaud (see above) were
 2-star Michelin chefs before coming to DC.

>Thanks.

You're welcome