Prices reflect the quality of goods -- high. Parking lot. The original Trattu still suffers from too many people trying to fill its small brickwalled dining room, but one goes there for brash conviviality rather than peaceful intimacy and for simple, robust food rather than for a wide choice of delicacies. The fried mozzarella is superlative, light and crisp and oozing cheese. The Two Continents 1420 F St. NW. L $3.95-$8.95, D $6.95-$14.95. Full bar service. One of the most attractive and ambitious Italian restaurants in town has succumbed to lassitude. 751-8888. The menu is full of homey dishes like tongue and rabbit livers plus seasonal treats like crayfish, but the service is disorganized and neglected. L $3.95-$6.95, D $6.25-$9.95. La Pagode 924 W. Broad St., Falls Church. Cantina is cozy and intimate, but the least stylish-looking northern Italian restaurant downtown. Enriqueta's menu has its ups and downs, but always offers a wealth of choices. Closed Sun. But the rstaurant also serves tempura, teriyaki, two soups and excellent meat dumplings in paper-thin noodle wrappers. L $4.25-$8.95, D $8.95-$16.95. F. Scott's 1232 36th St. NW. 956-2209.L $5.95-$8.95, D $9.25-$14.50. Chez Juliette 1047 West Broad St., Falls Church. The spot was known for serving . Jean-Louis The Watergate Hotel, 2650 Virginia Ave., NW. Closed Mon. Comus Inn 23900 Old Hundred Rd., Comus, Md. Children's prices. Pueblo Joe's looks like the kind of place you would like to go while on vacation. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 1985 DOCKSIDE BROILER Restaurant Menu - La Palma CA - Paper at the best online prices at eBay! Here is a prescription for enjoying the oldest restaurant in Washington, but follow the directions carefully. Free shipping for many products! Children's prices. Its high intentions are apparent from the start, from the curved brick stairway under a grand canopy. 355). Tabard Inn 1739 N St. NW. Children's prices. Contemporary in decor and menu concept, it serves fresh and inventive food, a smattering of light and serious dishes from chicken Caesar salad and hamburger on French bread to scallop pot pie and calf's liver with watercress-mustard saute. L, D daily. The salmon mousse with green peppercorns is suave and spicy, a pleasant light main course. It is several restaurants scattered from Columbia to Tysons Corner; it is a Washington institution and live museum of American pub culture; it is Georgetown's longest running mixer. Street parking and commercial lots. No alcoholic beverages. Skip the fettucine alfredo and finish with one of this town's really good cannoli. AE, D, MC, V. Parking lot. L $3.95-$5.50, D $5.25-$9.95. Barring my encounters with indifferent appetizers and luncheon specials that were steamtable mush, the food is fine. L $3.85-$7.25, D $5.50-$9.90. Parking lot next door. Closed Sun. If the Eatery makes you jittery, aim for White Flint's Cafe La Ruche, as busy and as enticing as Bloomingdale's. Yenching Palace 3524 Connecticut Ave., NW. 443 Seventh Street, NW. Cantina d'Italia is very Italian yet very personal -- a place where the food and service can be the most sophisticated and memorable in town, yet you can be as comfortable in jeans as in a tux. The Bread Oven 1220 19th St. NW. Children's prices. Central to Ethiopian dining are giant, pale, thin pancakes, sour from their fermented batter, which serve as tablecloth and utensil -- you eat with your hands by scooping meats and vegetables with pieces of pancake. Initials are of credit cards accepted. L $5.95-$6.50, D $6.75-$9.50. Enchiladas are better ordered at a Mexican restaurant rather than here, and roast pork is likely to be fatty. It sounds exactly like Tom Sariss Orleans House. Open daily. Full bar service. But Washington's French restaurants are famous for their inconsistency, and Jean-Pierre reaches excellence as often as any except perhaps the top three, and serves with as much suave expertise as any, bar none. Children's prices. L, D daily. It is just an enormous old apartment house coffee shop with travel posters and vinyl tablecloths, but Fio's has real southern Italian cooking at coffee-shop prices. 347-1445. The Best Restaurants in Washington, D.C., From Laotian Cuisine to Steakhouses | Cond Nast Traveler. Open daily. L $2.50-$4.75, D $3.25-$7.50. L $4.50-$6.75, D $4.50-$12.25. Few other restaurants, particularly in the Maryland suburbs serve so much so well for so little. broiled sirloin steak was $4.50. Don't expect anything fancy, just lots of straightforward food in a heavy fog of garlic, lemon and oregano to remind you of the Mediterranean. Full bar service. Street parking and nearby lots. Commercial parking lots or street. Children's prices. Street parking. Country Living Cafe 4849 1/2 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Seafoods are the mainstay of the menu -- fiery barbecued shrimp with heads and shells intact (too fiery and less savory on my last visit), crabmeat with hollandaise and artichoke bottoms in puff pastry (excellent, except for acrid artichokes), catfish fried in crabmeal, oysters pan-broiled with lemon and butter, oysters Bienville. Despite economic woes (recession and inflation), the energy crisis, urban decline, crime, and escalating restaurant prices, restaurant-going continued to rise. Maison Blanche 1725 F St. NW. Middle courses are a mixed bag, though at one day's lunch the crab cakes were stellar, and served with crisp stir-fried vegestables. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. The Old Ebbitt Grill 1427 F St. NW. Closed Sun. La Brasserie 239 Massachusetts Ave. NE. L $2.95-$5.75, D $5.45-12.50. Stacker compiled a list of the highest rated restaurants in Washington, D.C. from Tripadvisor. dFull bar service. And in the meantime, its cooking has settled into fairly consistent satisfaction. AE, MC, V. Reservations suggested. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations required. But then one returns to the question of the food. How to use Metro---Helpful links from Metro's website. On the dinner menu, anonymous mixtures and mismatched combinations range from broccoli with apples, walnuts and mushrooms under a veil of cheese at an overpriced $7 to mock quiche, lasagna, curry and Mexican casserole. Full bar service. Lido di Venezia 200 N. gLebe Rd., Arlington. The menu has been revamped to concentrate on the house specialties, weeding out the chaff. Vietnamese. Full bar service. In the 1970s the restaurant industry and the custom of eating in restaurants grew rapidly. Food, as you have probably guessed, is not central, but is one of those minor details that is handled well and thus plays an important role in this success story. Children's prices. Reservations accepted. Reservations accepted for dinner only. Careful attention shows in the quality of salad greens and small details, though overall the food tends to be good rather than memorable. Photographer Michael Horsley documented the era with a fascinating series of 537 photos. Open daily. 171-4212. L $2.50-$3.25, D $7.50-$9. Henry Africa 607 King St., Alexandria. Beer and wine only. Full bar service. When it opened -- to much fanfare among old India hands -- it was a rather expensive restaurant. New York City. The rates are rough and homey, soups fragrant, main dishes bold with garlic and shallots. If you don't equate French restaurants with ethnic charm, you need an evening at Cafe Tatti. Full bar service. Rosy walls and violin music, caviar with bliny and vodka with strawberries -- such are the touches that set the Serbian Crown apart from the crowd of Washington's elegant restaurants. And on weekend nights you can dance it off as Vietnam Bistro turns into a disco. Nothing changes at Szechuan & Hunan -- fortuantely. Peking Palace 7944 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily. Maxine's 2519 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. Its window walls fill the scene with the four-season beauty of Rock Creek Park. Full bar service.Children's prices. 439-5500. Open daily. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily. Maison Blanche joins Dominique's in offering fine affordable dinners that sacrifice none of the amenities of grand dining. L $3.25-$5.50, D $3.25-$7.50. Vegetables are interesting choices but variable productions, the zucchini a good bet. AE, MC, V. No reservations. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. 338-0900. Vegetables are excellent, from sprightly coleslaw and tossed salad with zingy dressing to delicious cottage fries and dilled carrots. 872-8677. Parking lot. L $3.95-$6.95, D $5.95-$9.50. Parking in rear. L, D daily. L $1.95-$5.75, D $2.95-$5.75. AE, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. SE. One introduction to this white-washed, beamed and timbered inn is a good look at the impressive kitchen cadre through a front window. 861-8447. We have even added an outstanding new American restaurant -- a grill room at last -- T. Gregory's. Full bar service. Full bar service. L $4-$10.50, D $8.50-$13.50. L daily ex Sat, D daily. The dining room, arranged with raised platform and balcony in addition to the main dining room, is dark wood with bright blue accents, a bit old and a bit new and very much in the spirit of a Bierstube. Parking lot in front. L $3.25-$5.95, D $3.25-$7.25. Swensen's 1990 K St. NW. This is a homestyle restaurant, with waiters that are likely to befriend you, bone your fish and advise you how to reheat the leftovers they have insisted on wrapping. But fried foods stand out here; the onion rings are thin and crisp and impossible not to finish despite the enormous portions, and the fried chicken wings are all that, plus tender and juicy, too. Ae, cb, mc, v. Reservations suggested. L $4.50-$9.75, D $4.25-$17.50. In the Washington Post, January 7, 1982, there is an account of the unfathomably named Richard Hamilton Herrud Houghton III. Valet parking. . Closed Mon. Full bar service. L $1.75-$5.25, D $3.75-$9.95. The food, however, remains best for a snack or light meal, Mexican food that is standard quality, or at least sinks to standard in its reheating a lunchtime. The smoked salmon is hard sliced and excellent, equivalent to what many restaurants charge double for. Saigon Inn 6922-A Braddock Rd., Annandale. The other dishes on the menu, most of which are designated delicacies or specialities, tend to be very mildly seasoned, so you might want to urge the kitchen to loosen up a bit. The hummos special, topped with ground beef and almonds, was not a prettily arranged or as tangy. The french fries have that nearly sweet taste of perfectly fried potatoes, the cole-slaw is fine. Their variety, however, outshines their character. Parking lot. Interesting, yes. mChildren's prices. AE, MC, V. Reservations accepted for dinner only. L $8.25-$11.95, D $11.75-$17.50. 3) Of course, one of the most significant stories of DC in the 1970s was the impeachment of President Nixon. L, D $3.95-$5.35. Cafe Lafayette 105 N. Alfred St., Alexandria. 290-9091. 751-9266. The menu, for example, describes a veal dish as "with special Italian cheese" rather than bothering to tell you that cheese is gorgonzola, a pungent blue that is not to everyone's liking. They poured perfect pints for nearly 30 years at this Woodley Park Irish pub that closed its doors in November after numerous, outrageous St. Paddy's Day parties . The homemade rum cake typifies the best and the worst of Caffe Italiano: The whipped cream is fake, but there is plenty of rum. Key: Ecept for actual reviews, information about restaurants found in this guide was supplied by the restaurants themselves. MC, V. Reservations suggested. Sholl's 1990 K St. NW. Full bar service. 638-2444. Dealing with sleazy salespeople is so 1980's. This is a big reason why people love dealing with Tesla, they have a fixed price, no sleaze, no . AE, CB, D, MC, V. No reservations. It is a very pretty restaurant, its three stories delicately set with Persian curlicues and fretwork, exotic but very sophisticated. But except for the sushi and sashimi -- and the seating of strangers at our table in a half-empty room -- the meal was a gem. No wonder Germaine's has become a Washington landmark. La Maree's more modest self-introduction leaves room for unexpected pleasures. Ben's Chili Bowl. and car dealers will solely become service centers. 422-8622. Washington needs more serious seafood restaurants that serve really fresh fish and cook it properly. Street parking or nearby lots. Full bar service. Reservations accepted. Children's prices. 293-9111. No-smoking section. Try chicken malai in a highly perfumed, buttery sauce of vegetables, yogurt and sour cream, or lamb with fresh spinach and tomatoes. 1475 Pennsylvania Ave. NW (15th St. NW) Washington, DC 20004. L $4-$5, D $4-$7. Full bar service. The sauce is more sharp than sweet and plenty hot. 1983 The Food Marketing Institute reports that 2/3 of all fish consumed in the U.S. is eaten in restaurants. 9ll-6787. Premier among the dishes is aushak, whether as an appetizer or main course, the homemade noodles filled with sauteed leeks or scallions, topped with yogurt, mint and tomato meat sauce; it is an inspired combination. Closed Sun. 1443 K St. NW. L $6.25-$8.75, D $10.95-$15.95.L, D daily. K $3.95-$6.55. Best Vegetarian Restaurants in New York City. AE, D, MC, V. No reservations. L $3.25-$4.75, D $7.25-$11.95. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily. Open daily. Vietnam Georgetown 2934 M. St., NW. L $4.75-$8.95, : $6.25-$9.45. Indside, the dessert table and cheese trays are iordinately enticing. AE,CB, D, MC, V. Reservations required. Pizza with Duck Sausage wins quick stardom. 767-1095. L $2.95-$5.50, D$6.50-$10.50. One must by all means try the beef noodle soup to find the interplay of tastes that is so intriguinng in Vietnamese food. La Miche has expanded and is suffering from growing pains, though it is still the best French restaurant I have found in the Maryland suburbs. Children's prices. L daily ex Sat, D daily. No alcoholic beverages. L, D $6.75-$14.75. Parking lot. L daily ex Sat, D daily. SE. Full bar service. Closed Sun. The Sunset does not get so intense as to peel its own potatoes or bake its own pies, but it serves homemade food, up to a point. D $11.75-$18.75. Mall parking.Full bar service. L $2-$2.75, D $3-$7. L $2.25-$4.50, D $5.50-$9.50. MC, V. Reservations suggested. The new prices imply a culinary consistency and a level of service that do not actually exist here. And the staf does sing a rousing version of "Happy Birthday." Lombardy Cafe 2019 I St. NW. It has one of the town's most elegant pates maison. Closed Sun. Parking in adjacent lot. Street parking. No smoking. Seafood dishes are the most intriguing; crystal shrimp are soaked in ice water to crisp them, then cooked just until translucent. 321-9440. Cafe Tatti 6627 Old Dominion Dr., McLean. The Tides Lodge Irvington, Va. 804/438-6000. Beer and wine only. It is one of those exciting cities where you could visit a different restaurant every day for six months and still not get to all the good ones. Parking in rear. No reservations. Full bar service. Reservations suggested. AE, MC, V. Reservations accepted. 546-8300. Open daily. Full bar service. L $4.25-$11.50, D $5.95-$13.95. D $12.95-$15.65. 293-1272. Full bar service. Sunset serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, but lunch is the prime time. Open daily. Closed Sun. You can wade through a lot o sushi -- and a lot o money -- without batting an eye, or carefully monitor your intake and have had a light, rapid and invigorating lunch in an exquisite setting at a modest price. The corned beef is the best this side of Baltimore, and the roast beef and turkey revive the worth of those delicatessen meats. Fio's The Woodner, 3636 16th St. NW. Frederick, Md. Free parking after 6 p.m. at 18th & M Sts. Parking lots. Beer and wine only. Los Planes de Renderos 908 11th St. NW. E, MC, V. Reservations suggested. 4611 Laverock Pl NW # 1, Washington, DC 20007 is an apartment unit listed for rent at /mo. In an era that values light eating, Ikado's high prices for small portions detract little from its agreeability. Children's prices. Full bar service. 971-4200. For dessert -- have something. L $3.15-$6.35, D $4.75-$12.95. Full bar service. Some of the grand entree adventures are fresh baby duckling with cassis, crayfish, roasted loin of veal with fresh wild mushrooms, saddle fo rabbit. No credit cards. La Scala serves down-to-earth Italian food at prices to match, but it is real cooking of real food, with real Italian sensibility. Finish with nut-filled, cigar-shaped filo pastries and tiny cups of thick coffee. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations accepted. Visit 1789. Oxtail soup, in contrast, is disappointing. Cool "Disco" Dan. AE, MC, V. Reservations suggested. o The Upstairs Maid 1992 Chain Bridge Rd., Tysons Corner. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily. The menu is small, with California contemporary touches on its Italian base. Even the cheeseburger is tough and tasteless, under an embarrassing blanket of American cheese, and nice softshell crabs have been buried in heavy batter and drowned in brown gravy. L, D daily. Fish filets are moist and, thankfully, unadorned. 333-6605. Full bar service. Save. L $3-$12.50, D $4.50-$12.50. Parking in rear. And even with all those amenities, the highlight is the food. Reservations accepted for 10 or more only. Full bar service. Children's meals. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations accepted for five or more only. Closed Mon. L $3.10-$4.90, D $3.10-$8.95. elan 2020 K St. NW. Gangplank 600 Water St. SW. 554-5000. Rating 13/20. CB, MC, V. Reservations suggested. 333-3376. L daily ex Sat, D daily. BEFORE YOU POST A HOTEL REQUEST, PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY! MC, V. Reservations accepted. Full bar service. No credit cards. . But daily specials recited by the captain -- a long, confusing and often very expensive list -- are the heart of the matter. AE, MC, V. Reservations suggested. Full bar service. L $4.95-$8.95, D $7.95-$13.95. 656-6200. But that is the proof for anyone who doubts that Washington is a good restaurant city. Map. His restaurant doesn't stop at serving the usual wild game, but is likely to have rattlesnake one day, hippo another. Full bar service. Capucine 1645 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Hours & Location. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations required. AE, MC, V. Reservations accepted. Children's prices.No smoking section. Washington has many elegant restaurants, but most of those serving good food in luxurious surrounding are either French or Italian. Beer and wine only. II Nido is handsome as an Italian film star and propped with interesting dishes like fregnacce and other handmade pastas. It serves these elaborate pasta dishes in whimsically decorated little dining rooms and an outdoor cafe and embellishes the menu with daily meat and seafood specials: veal with amaretto, mushrooms and shallots; fish or squid with lemon butter. Full bar service. Look for the puff-pastry-and-almond-paste pithivier for dessert; served warm, it oozes butter and is ribboned with whipped cream. Reservations accepted. MC, V. No reservations. Early to mid 1980s Restaurant. Full bar service. Since the selection changes seasonally, it is tricky to try to recommend dishes, but one day's mussels in mustard sauce combined expected flavors in a hauntingly good dish. Seriously, how do monument tickets disappear instantly? Children's prices. Divided-Back CAPITOL BUILDING Des Moines Iowa IA hJ5606. L, D daily. Full bar service. Falls Landing 774 Walker Rd., Great Falls, Va. 759-4650. But if you ignore the flossy touches, such as cloying Polynesian drinks, and approach this as a hospitable neighborhood Chinese restaurant with a Vietnamese accent, you will find it worth remembering when you are around Tysons Corner. L $4.50-$6.75, D $8-$17. Tiberio 1915 K St. NW. 657-8775. What matters more than the fact that this restaurant calls itself Hunanese is that it is a very good Chinese restaurant. L daily ex Sat, D daily. AE, D, V. Reservations suggested. Golden Temple Conscious Cookery 1521 Connecticut Ave. NW. 234-6969. Valet parking. Los Planes de Renderos offers few niceties; the fish will not be boned, and the chicken, though nicely seasoned and crisp, may be reheated. Parking in front. Ae, CB, CC, D, MC,V. And nearly surrounding you are tiny marble tables set with bottles holding daisies and readers absorbed in books and salads, surrounded by a haze of chatter. At the Palm, don't stake all on steak. Ae, mc, v. Reservations suggested. L $3.50-$8.25, D $6.50-$14.95. Les Ambassadeurs 1310 Wisconsin Ave. NW. AE, MC, V. Reservations suggested. Full bar service. Sometimes fresh shellfish emerges in a creamy garlic sauce as a "special apetizer." And even more important, increasingly restaurants are serving seafood that is fresh rather than frozen, and cooking it properly. L daily ex Sat, D daily. Yaldizlar 2605 24th St., NW. It would be an improvement to add small, appetizer-priced portions o quiches and pates, particularly since the quiche -- high, fragile custard with a golden surface and shimmery texture -- is worthy of your special attention. Trip Report - Family of 4, including 2 tweens, how to getReagan National (DCA) to Dulles I(AID), Safe Places To Stay In The Washington DC Area. And most of the oven cooking or simmering -- stuffed vegetables, baked kibbe, wet couscous -- is overcooked and no better than average. The focal point of the menu is the daily specials, most around $4 or $5 for large portions of good, simple French cooking. Zachary's serves Greek food with a sunny, warm disposition in a shopping center restaurant that has expanded to several rooms.You need not spend more than $25 a couple, unless you give in to the persuasion of hot appetizers (crisp, buttery spanakopita, tomato-sweetened squid, spicy sausage) and excellent baklava or superbly delicate creme caramel, ouzo or retsina or liquor-dosed coffee. No credit cards. Closed Sun. 203 Strand St., Alexandria. Fortunes shift, and fans shift back and forth between Georgetown's two side-by-side Vietnamese restaurants with this, the corner one, being the insiders' current favorite. Children's prices. MC, V. Reservations required for parties over six for dinner only. This kind of wrap-and-dip food is not only fun, it is light eating and sufficiently crunchy and cool to appeal to flagging summer appetites. Running a great restaurant is no secret. Courtesy of Wikimedia/Oliver F. Atkins. L $2.95-$3.25, D $3.50-$6.45. Full bar service. The Eatery White Flint Mall, Bethesda. some good, some bad, that's the way it goes. 984-9440. Closed Sun. McGuire's 1330 Pennsylvania Ave. Fish is often a hightlight, and while the memu offers few surprises, familiar dishes are done uncommonly well. Trout or red snapper are afloat in nutty clarified butter with almonds, mushrooms, onions, ripe tomatoes and coconut milk, garnished with crisp green broccoli.Neither meats nor vegetables are overcooked.
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