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Update September 2022: We put up this list in 2020 to help connect restaurants and those that wanted to support them. The crisis may be fading, but many still want to support restaurants and also give gift cards as actual gifts! We are in the process of updating it for 2023. If you are a restaurant in the District and don’t see yourself list (scroll all the way to the bottom to be sure!), contact us and we’ll add you
THE LIST
Independent operators are listed first in roughly alphabetical order with a link to the restaurant site and then the gift card link if applicable. Those restaurants that are part of a larger group (like Knightsbridge, Neighborhood Restaurant Group, etc) are at the bottom. If you don’t see a place you are looking for, they still might have a way to give support, so contact them directly. Some places are listed as placeholders. They have “None” in the comment area.
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2 Amys – Gift Cards.
Agora – Gift Cards.
A. Litteri – No gift cards, but doing business and online ordering.
Albi – Gift Cards.
Ana at District Winery – Gift Cards
Andy’s Pizza – None.
Annabelle – For Gift Cards see the Knightsbridge Group (redeemable at all restaurants, see list at bottom of this post).
Annie’s – No Gift Cards, merch is available on site.
Astoria/Copycat Co. – Gift Card
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Baked and Wired/A Baked Joint/LaBetty – Gift Cards and other merch.
Baked by Yael – Gift Cards and other items for purchase – including baked goods!
Banana Leaves – no cards, but looks like you can Order Online for non-contact deliveries.
Bar Chinois – no cards
Barrel – Gift Cards.
Ben’s Chili Bowl – Gift Cards.
Bidwell – No gift cards.
Big Bear Café – Gift Cards and other merch.
Bistro Aracosia – No cards.
Bistrot Lepic & Wine Bar – Gift Certificate
Blue 44 – No cards.
Blue Duck Tavern – There are generic Hyatt Gift Cards.
Bluejacket – See below for Neighborhood Restaurant Group Gift Cards.
Bombay Street Food/Butter Chicken Co – No gift cards.
Bossa Bistro and Lounge – No cards.
Bourbon Steak – None apparently for DC location.
Bread Furst – None
Bub and Pop’s – No gift card link.
Buck’s Fishing & Camping – Gift Card.
Bun DC – No cards.
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Café Mozart – No cards.
Café du Parc – No cards.
Cafe Riggs – For hotel, including dining options.
Cafe Saint-Ex – No cards
Call Your Mother – Gift Cards. Buy Merch!
Capo’s Deli – No Cards.
Caruso’s Grovery – Gift Cards (good for the Roost as a whole)
Casta’s – No cards.
Causa/Bar Amazonia – Gift Cards
Centrolina/Piccolina – Gift Cards for both.
Chercher – No gift cards.
Chez Billy Sud/Bar à Vin: Gift Cards.
Chicken and Whiskey – Gift Card.
Cielo Rojo – Gift Cards and merch.
La Collina – Gift Cards – also good at The Duck and The Peach.
The Commodore – No cards
Compass Rose/Maydan: Gift cards for Compass Rose, Maydan.
Compliments Only – No cards – but stop in during holiday shopping for a great sub!
Corduroy/Baby Wale – Gift Cards email: manager@corduroydc.com.
Cracked Eggery – No cards
Crazy Aunt Helen’s – Gift Card
Creole on 14th/Po Boy Jim – No card
D
Da Hong Pao – None
The Dabney/Dabney Cellar – Gift Card.
Das – None
DC Harvest – None, but give them some love and order food.
Destino/Las Gemelas/Ghostburger – None
Diner/Tryst – Gift Cards for Open City, Tryst, The Diner, The Coupe.
District Kitchen – Gift Cards.
District Rico (Chicken Rico) – No cards.
Dolan Uyghur – No gift cards, but order via seamless.com, grubhub.com, postmates.com, doordash.com
Donburi – No gift cards, but order online.
The Duck and The Peach – Gift Cards – also good at La Collina and The Wells.
Duke’s – Gift cards for all three locations on site.
Dukem – No cards
Dupont Market -no cards
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El Chucho – No gift card,
El Cielo – No cards
El Rey – Gift Certificates, TO/D on site.
El Secreto de Rosita – No gift cards
El Tamarindo – Contact them for Cards and merch.
El Techo/Rito Loco – No cards
Ellē – Gift Cards.
Elizabeth’s Gone Raw – Gift Cards.
Emissary – No cards
Estuary – No cards.
Etto – Gift Cards.
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Federalist Pig – Gift Cards and online ordering.
Fish in the Hood – No cards
Florida Ave Grill – No gift cards. Merch is in store only.
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Gemini/Happy Ice Cream – No cards.
Good Stuff Eatery – No cards.
Gourmet Panda – None.
Grand Duchess – Gift Cards and Merch on website.
Granville Moore’s – Gift Cards and back to Belgian!
The Greek Deli – No gift cards. Reopened for business!!
Green Almond Pantry – Gift Cards.
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Han Palace – No Cards
Henry’s Soul Cafe – No gift cards
Himalayan Heritage – No gift cards, but order online.
Honeyflower Food – No gift cards, but Delivery Options.
Honeymoon Chicken – Gift Cards
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I’m Eddie Cano – Gift Cards (also appear to be good for In Bocca al Lupo, Italian Bar)
Indigo – Gift Cards.
Inn at Little Washington – Gift Cards.
Irregardless – No cards
Ivy City Smokehouse – Gift Cards
Ivy & Coney – Website for Cards and Merch.
Izakaya Seki – Gift Cards and new take out partnered with Domestique Wine Shop. And Merch!
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Karma – Gift Cards.
Keren – No cards. Doing TO/D.
Kingbird – No cards.
Kotobuki – No gift cards, take out orders: (202-625-9080). Menu
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La Chaumiere – No cards.
La Jambe – Gift Cards available on website.
La Tejana – No Cards
Le DeSales – Closed – status uncertain.
Leni – No cards
Leopold’s Kafe & Konditorei – None.
Little Food Studio – No cards
Little Red Fox – E-gift card and other merch in online store.
Little Sesame – Every $10 gift card purchased = meal served to folk in need.
Los Hermanos – No gift cards.
Lucky Buns – Gift Cards, dinner for take out and merch!
Lucy Bar/Slice & Pie – Gift Certificates
Lutece (Formerly Bonaparte) – Gift Card link dead.
Lydia on H – No cards
Lyle’s – no cards
M
Macon – Gift Cards available – call: 202-248-7807.
Maiz64 – No cards
Makan/Thirsty Crow – No cards, but they are really good.
Maketto: Gift Cards (Both Gift Cards and House Accounts also for ABCPony).
Mandu – No cards
Manna Dosirak – No cards
Mari Vanna – No gift cards
Marvin – None.
Masseria/Officina – Gift Cards (Masseria); Gift Cards (Officina).
Maxwell Park – Gift Cards by location: Shaw, Navy Yard.
Menomale – None
Mercy Me – Gift Cards; merch and market
Mezcalero – None
Mi Cuba – No message or cards on site.
Mikko – Gift cards. And T-shirts on the webpage
Millie’s – Gift Cards, Merch.
The Ministry – Gift Cards and Merch!
Mission/Hawthorne/Admiral – Gift Cards.
Moi Moi – No cards
Mola – Now Nido Shop – Go buy something.
Momo’s Cafe – None
Moreland’s Tavern – Gift Cards.
Mr. Braxton Bar & Kitchen – No gift cards
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Nicoletta Italian Kitchen – Gift Cards for parent company (also for Osteria Morini)
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Obelisk – Gift Certificate. But they have been closed for the summer since July.
Occidental Grill – No gift cards.
O-Ku – Gift Cards for Parent Indigo Road Hospitality, redeemable at all affiliated restaurants. No message about current operations.
Old Europe – Gift cards and merch.
Open Crumb – No cards
Osteria Morini – Parent Altamarea Cards (also for Nicoletta).
Oyster Oyster – No cards
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Panda Gourmet – No gift cards, but order online.
Pappe – No gift cards
The Passenger/Left Door – No gift cards.
Peacock Cafe – No gift cards.
The Pembroke – None.
Pennyroyal Station – Gift Cards – you have to click through to the Toast app for take-out and there is a button.
Peregrine Expresso – Gift Cards and Merch.
Piccolina/Centrolina: Gift Cards for both.
Pie Shop – No cards.
Pizzeria Paradiso – Gift Cards.
&Pizza – No gift cards, but offers for orders.
Plume (now the Greenhouse) – None.
Porchetta District – No cards
Pub and the People – Gift Cards.
Pupatella – No cards
The Pursuit Wine Bar – Gift Cards (none found for sister spot Etabli)
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Rappahannock Oyster Bar (Wharf) – Gift cards seem by restaurant. Wharf.
Rania (formerly Punjab Grill) – Gift Cards
Rare Steakhouse/Tavern – Gift Cards for All Locations.
Rasa – Gift Cards.
Red Bear Brewing – Gift Cards and Merch
Red Derby – Take-out. See IG for more.
Republic Cantina – Gift cards.
Reverie – Gift Cards and House Accounts.
Right Proper Brewing – Gift Card redeemable at both locations. shop Beer and Food and Beer from Shaw.
Rito Loco/El Techo – No cards, but merch.
El Rinconcito Café – No gift cards
Ris – Gift Cards.
RPM – Gift Cards (not clear if redeemable at all locations)
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San Lorenzo – Contact directly
Santa Rosa Taqueria – No cards.
Scarlet Oak – No cards.
Seoul Spice – No cards
Sharbat Bakery – No cards
Shawarma District – No gift cards.
Shibuya Eatery – No cards
Shilling Canning Co. – Gift Cards.
Slice Joint – No cards
Som Tam – No cards.
Souvlaki Greek Cuisine – No gift cards
Soi 38 – Gift Cards.
Sonoma – Gift Cards. .
Stachowski’s Market – No gift cards, but doing great take out dinners.
Stellina Pizzeria – Gift Cards.
Sticky Rice – Gift Cards and Merch from website (though links were dead when we tried); And online ordering options.
Super Pollo – No cards.
Supra – Gift Cards.
Supreme BBQ – No cards
Sushi Gakyu – No gift cards.
Sushi Ogawa – No cards. Take-out added. See website and IG.
Sushi Taro – No gift cards, but they do knife sharpening!
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Taberna al Alabardero – Gift Cards.
Taco Bamba – Link. DC closed.
Taco City – None?
Taïm – No gift cards
Taqueria del Barrio – Gift Cards
Taqueria Habanero – No gift cards but go!
Taqueria Distrito Federal – No gift cards.
Teaism – Gift Cards and other merch online.
Tequila & Mezcal – No cards
Tiger Fork/Fainting Goat – Gift card
Tiki on 18th/The Game – Gift Card
Timber Pizza Co. – Gift Cards.
Al Tiramisu – Gift cards available directly.
Tortino – No cards.
Tsehay Ethiopian – No gift cards.
Tunnicliff’s Tavern – No cards.
U/V/W/X/Y/Z:
Un Je Ne Sais Quoi – Cards available, contact directly.
Unconventional Diner – Gift cards available on website.
Valor Brewpub – No gift cards.
Via Sophia – None
Walter’s Sports Bar – Gift Cards.
We The Pizza – None
Zorba’s – No Cards
1914 – No cards
Restaurants Groups:
Tail Up Goat/Reveler’s Hour: Looks like they are done separately for each place:
(Hank’s) Jamie Leeds Restaurant Group: Gift Cards.
Think Food Group (Jose Andres): Link – redeemable at all restaurants.
Black’s Restaurant Group: Link. Good at all locations, including:
- Addie’s
- Black Salt
- Black Jack
- Pearl Dive –
- Republic
- TILT
EatWell Group: Link – redeemable at all locations:
- Commissary
- Logan Tavern
- Grillfish
- The Pig
- The Charles.
Clyde’s Group: Link – appears to be redeemable at all locations.
Knightsbridge Restaurant Group: Link – good at all locations.
Neighborhood Restaurant Group: Gift Card – Redeemable at any of their restaurants. Moving to a consolidated kitchen model for all restaurants to do deliveries.
- The Evening Star
- Vermilion
- Buzz Bakeshop – will remain open for TO/D
- Planet Wine –
- Columbia Firehouse
- Rustico
- Bluejacket
- B Side
- Iron Gate
- The Partisan
- Red Apron – will remain open to buy meat.
- Birch & Barley
- Churchkey
- The Sovereign
- Hazel
Red Hen Group: Done separately.
Daikaya Group: Gift cards by each shop
- Bantam King – Gift Cards
- Daikaya – Gift Cards
- Haikan – Gift Cards
- Hatoba – Gift Cards
- Tonari – No cards. Hasn’t reopened yet.
Robert Wiedmaier Restaurants: Link – redeemable at these restaurants:
- Marcel’s
- Brasserie Beck
- Mussel Bar & Grille
- Keystone Korner (food & beverage only)
- Wildwood Kitchen –
- Lock 72
Rose’s Group: Cards done separately.
Fabio Trabocchi Restaurants: Link – redeemable at all restaurants:
Knead Hospitality: Link – Redeemable at all locations, including:
Starr Restaurant Group: Link – redeemable at either location and many other Starr Restaurants
Street Guys Hospitality: Link – redeemable at these locations:
- Ambar DC
- Ambar Clarendon
- Baba
- Buena Vida
- Buena Vida Social Club
Metropolitan Hospitality Group: Link – redeemable at all locations it appears:
- Circa –
- El Bebe –
- Trio Grill –
- Open Road
Founding Farmers Group: Gift Cards – appears to be redeemable at all locations.
Richard Sandoval Restaurants – Gift Card redeemable at:
- El Centro
- dLena – Gift Cards
- And out of state locations.
Schlow Restaurant Group – Varies by restaurant:
- Alta Strada – Gift Cards.
- Nama Ko – No gift card.
Hakan Ilhan Group: Varies
- Mirabelle – Closed
- Al Dente -None?
- Brasserie Liberte – Gift Cards
- Ottoman Taverna – None?
Lupo Verde (Med Lahlou) Restaurants – No gift cards.
We will continue to work and update this. Happy Holidays!!!
Be Safe.