A few good restaurants - Nouvelle Seafood -Kinkeads is quite good (2000 Pennsylvania) Northern Italian - Galilieos is always interesting. (2101 L Street) The Inn at Little Washington - very romantic, special, and pricey. The Historic Georgetown Club - Tableside veal marsala is amazing (see if your club has reiprocal priviliges) Is there a specific type of food you are looking for?
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Bice's, Kinkeads, Vidalia's, Provence, Galileo's are all excellent. try Ruppert's for a contemporary American menu that is varied and intersting. The wine list is eclectic. Dont be put off by the location (which is a littel funky) Teh food is delicious. In article , [email removed] (P. Fitting) wrote: >Could someone recommend a restaurant for a special dinner in DC. I >saw the GOURMET list but given their Toronto selections (where they >mix the pretentious with the good) I do not trust them. Thanks, >
Someone wrote: : Hi! Looking for an interesting, un-touristy, restaurant/tavern in the DC : area. Anyone out there know of a 'hidden treasure' ? BTW a kind person : forwarded me a thread on Charleston SC 6 months ago, and I went to Bowens : Island Restaurant. Our oyster roasters name was Goat and my buddy and I : wound up out back drinking beer with him and humping sacks of oysters. It : was a real experience! Thanks in advance : SJL If you're in downtown DC, try Bacchus. The cuisine is Mediterranian. The eggplant stuff with walnuts is exquisite. It is in the Dupont Circle area, a few block south of the metro station on (I think) Thomas Jefferson St. This is off the tourist routes enough that most of the tourists would never find it. I was just there a couple of weeks ago. The owner was stopping by each of the tables to visit with the customers. He said the restaurant has been there for 23 years. The food is always good. I recommended to a co-worker who was also going to DC and he said it was one of the best restaurant meals he's had in a long time. I usually don't make it past the appetizer pages. On my last visit, my friend and I just split 4 or 5 appetizers for dinner. Bon appetite! Andrea
NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Oct 2000 02:27:27 GMT User-Agent: Xnews/2.07.14 Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu rec.food.restaurants:51869 I'd like to hear from those in the group about their favorite restaurants in the DC area. I'll be travelling there at the end of the month, and am open to new ideas. We'll be staying near the convention center, but we are willing to travel within the subway system territory. Some of the places I've been are: Full Key - great, cheap Chinese; Trio - good sit down diner with great blue plate specials; I Ricci - fine Italian; Reeves - cafeteria breakfast; Hay-Adams Hotel - full blown fine dining; Rattlesnake - Southwestern fare; Vidalia - Southern cooking. So, you can see that I like all types of food, and a wide range of prices. Thanks in advance, Jim
Don't forget Copeland's Cajun cuisine in Alexandria... -- -- WARNING: Too much action! http://www.dwacon.com Jim M. wrote: > I'd like to hear from those in the group about their favorite restaurants > in the DC area. I'll be travelling there at the end of the month, and am > open to new ideas. We'll be staying near the convention center, but we are > willing to travel within the subway system territory. > > Some of the places I've been are: > > Full Key - great, cheap Chinese; > Trio - good sit down diner with great blue plate specials; > I Ricci - fine Italian; > Reeves - cafeteria breakfast; > Hay-Adams Hotel - full blown fine dining; > Rattlesnake - Southwestern fare; > Vidalia - Southern cooking. > > So, you can see that I like all types of food, and a wide range of prices. > > Thanks in advance, Jim
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Dwayne C. wrote:
>Don't forget Copeland's Cajun cuisine in Alexandria...
PLEASE FORGET Copeland's if you are looking for Cajun food.!!!!!
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Visualize Financial Peace!NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 10:34:20 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu rec.food.restaurants:51884 Citronelle which is on 30th and M I believe. Fantastic. Or the standby 1789, which is a block away from Georgetown University on 36th Street between O and Prospect Jim M. wrote: > I'd like to hear from those in the group about their favorite restaurants > in the DC area. I'll be travelling there at the end of the month, and am > open to new ideas. We'll be staying near the convention center, but we are > willing to travel within the subway system territory. > > Some of the places I've been are: > > Full Key - great, cheap Chinese; > Trio - good sit down diner with great blue plate specials; > I Ricci - fine Italian; > Reeves - cafeteria breakfast; > Hay-Adams Hotel - full blown fine dining; > Rattlesnake - Southwestern fare; > Vidalia - Southern cooking. > > So, you can see that I like all types of food, and a wide range of prices. > > Thanks in advance, Jim >
NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Oct 2000 19:47:50 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu rec.food.restaurants:51891 try Jaleo's for tapas (outstanding) Keith B. wrote: > > Citronelle which is on 30th and M I believe. Fantastic. Or the standby > 1789, which is a block away from Georgetown University on 36th Street > between O and Prospect > Jim M. wrote: > > I'd like to hear from those in the group about their favorite restaurants > > in the DC area. I'll be travelling there at the end of the month, and am > > open to new ideas. We'll be staying near the convention center, but we are > > willing to travel within the subway system territory. > > > > Some of the places I've been are: > > > > Full Key - great, cheap Chinese; > > Trio - good sit down diner with great blue plate specials; > > I Ricci - fine Italian; > > Reeves - cafeteria breakfast; > > Hay-Adams Hotel - full blown fine dining; > > Rattlesnake - Southwestern fare; > > Vidalia - Southern cooking. > > > > So, you can see that I like all types of food, and a wide range of prices. > > > > Thanks in advance, Jim > >
Jim M. wrote: > > I'd like to hear from those in the group about their favorite restaurants > in the DC area. I'll be travelling there at the end of the month, and am > open to new ideas. We'll be staying near the convention center, but we are > willing to travel within the subway system territory. <snip> > So, you can see that I like all types of food, and a wide range of prices. > Thanks in advance, Jim Ok. Here's my list of some places I like to eat downtown. It is incomplete, but I haven't had time for major editing recently, only for required updating! Hope it helps- Sarah ... How to eat REALLY well in DC: A good source for restaurant reviews is the Washington Post's restaurant review database at: http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/searches/restrant.htm You can get exact addresses, phone numbers, hours, and price ranges from there. I suggest avoiding the Washingtonian Magazine reviews. They favor their advertisers, and that really biases their reviews. I tend to eat ethnic, and mid-priced. That said: My favorite place in the entire city is a place called Cashion's Eat Place. Its in a neighborhood known as Adams-Morgan, in NW DC, on Columbia Rd. New American food. Really good, and at the high end of prices. Worth every penny. MAKE RESERVATIONS or you will have trouble getting in. My second favorite place is Ruppert's Restaurant. 7th St and Massachusetts Ave NW (Mt Vernon Square Metro stop.) Also VERY expensive, new American and worth every penny. Once again, make reservations. I also really LOVE a newish place, Rocky's Caf. Right next door to Cashion's. Creole and New American. Yummy, yummy. Not as expensive. Nice place. Do you like Moroccan food? Marrakesh, at 6th and NY ave NW is great. The neighborhood scares some people off, but it's not as bad as they think it is. Fixed-price, seven courses, traditional Moroccan EVERYTHING - seating, decor, food, service, and belly dancing. Make reservations. It's a narrow, orange building, labeled only in Arabic. You have to knock on the door to get in. The decor is cool, the food is good, the service is good. Make reservations. And right next door to Marrakesh is AV Italian. Very NYC in the 50's style. Amazing jukebox, if you like opera. Nice food. Adams-Morgan is a good neighborhood to eat in. It centers around 18th St and Columbia Rd NW -halfway between the Woodley Park-Zoo Metro stop and the Dupont Circle Metro stop. Many many restaurants, wide variety of cuisine and price range. My favorite pool hall (Bedrock Billiards) is in this neighborhood. Several good places in descending order of price: Felix (New American), The Grill from Ipanema (Brazilian Steakhouse), Fasika's (Ethiopian), Mama Ayesha's (Lebanese), India Gate, Mixtec (Mexican) basically, it's easy to eat well when eating in Adams-Morgan. There's also a lot of good food at Dupont Circle. My personal favorite is Pizzeria Paradisio, on P St NW, between 20th & 21st. Go early. It's a small place, the lines are long, and they don't take reservations. Teasim, on R Street just north of the circle is a nice teahouse/cafe. There's a new place on 20th and P, called "Johnny's Half Shell." Mostly fishes, not cheap, but very good (and I HATE fishes.) Right around the circle there are a number of good places. Read menus and follow your nose. I also like Cafe Luna (Cheap, Pizza, Pasta, Sandwiches), on 17th &P. On 17th St between P and R there is another (smaller) restaurant district. Some more good places to eat. Cleveland Park is another good neighborhood to eat (right at the Cleveland Park metro stop). Spices - Asian Fusion food- right on Connecticut Av is nice, if not great. The YenCheng Palace is an acceptably good Chinese place. Yan Yeu is a new, VERY upscale Asian place. Only been there three times, but really enjoyed it. Avoid Ardeo. It was SOOO not worth it. And if you just want a burger and a beer, go to Nanny O'Brien's. (The music is good too.) Just one Metro stop down from Cleveland Park is Woodley Park. Eat at Lebanese Taverna. Again, go early. Lines are long, no reservations. Or at Saigon Gourmet, the Vietnamese place right next door to Lebanese Taverna. Murphy's of DC, a sorta Irish-pub-place is there. I like their staff, and the beer is good. The basic food is ok. The music varies from good to barely acceptable. Chinatown is at the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro stop - close to the museums. My favorite places there are Tony Cheng's Mongolian Barbecue on H St NW, and Mr Yung's, on 6th St NW. And upstairs from Mr. Yung's is Burma - surprise, surprise, they serve Burmese food. And there's an acceptable brewpub on 7th St NW, between E and F Sts called the District Chophouse. Capitol Hill is a good place to eat too. For the South side of the hill: On Pennsylvania Ave SE, between 6th and 7th look for a place called Anatolia for really nice Turkish food. There's also a Pakistani place whose name I forget in that block that has GREAT food. Further up toward the Capitol, also on Pennsylvania Ave, Taverna the Greek Islands is good, and La Lomitas Dos is nice for Mexican. The Hawk and Dove is a good burger-n-beer joint. Service stinks, but... The Tune Inn is also good for drinks and pub food. There is a MOST wonderful new place - The Bluestone Caf, on 7th St SE, just north of Pennsylvania Ave, down by Eastern market. It's not cheap. (I've encountered perfection there four times, and had one odd night where nothing went right. We were just there again (9/23/00) and it was good again.) Also near the market, on 8th St SE, just south of Pennsylvania Ave, right by the Marine Barracks, there's another small but good strip of restaurants. Try the Banana Caf for Caribbean and Puerto Rican food. For the North side of the hill: Massachusetts Ave NE, starting at Union Station, down to about 7th St is another small restaurant strip. Several good places there... (avoid Two Quail. Great ambiance, but the food is NOT worth the cost.) And B Smith's, in Union Station, is a nice nouvelle Southern place, in the old Presidential Waiting Room of the Train Station. Live jazz on weekends. We like to eat appetizers at the bar there for a snack or a light dinner. U St NW between 12th and 14th Sts is our newest trendy restaurant/entertainment district. Eat at Polly's Cafe, or at Utopia, or Ben's Chili Bowl or - well, it's another area where it's hard to go wrong... and it's a good place to hit bars. Georgetown. This is M St. and Wisconsin Ave NW. The neighborhood is rather expensive, and full of tourists. But there are some good places. Music City Roadhouse serves Southern food, with live country music on weekends, and live gospel at Sunday Brunch. Adati does good Indian. Clyde's is ok, but not amazing pub grub, as is Chadwick's. Not worth the time really, but convenient to grab a burger while shopping. Caf La Rouche, on 31st St (I think), just below the canal is very nice, and not very expensive. They do a GREAT weekend brunch. Ok, now for random odds and ends. If you like Spanish food, don't miss Jaleo, at 7th and E Sts NW, just below Chinatown, for Tapas. Jaleo is one of my favorite places. Kinkead's at Foggy Bottom (I St between 20th and 21 Sts NW) is pricey, but good fish. Capitol Brewing Company, H St between 11th and 12th Sts NW - not great beer, ok food. Pretty space, convenient for lunch to museums, etc. I really like the soup for lunch in the cafeteria at the National Gallery of Art. And if you like cheap diner breakfasts, The Waffle Shop, across from Ford's Theater is good. Just don't eat other meals there. There's a great Lebanese place, Bacchus, just below Dupont Circle, just off Connecticut Ave. (Also high on my list of wonderful places.) The Saturday only "Latin Tapas" brunch at Caf Atlantico (8th and D NW) is really good!