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Image: Buns up. Last Updated: August 2025 Overview: The fun open-air spot on 14th serves up BBQ sandwiches and sides to crowds that fill up the picnic tables. It has gone through some menu revisions over the years. Currently, it is focused on sandwiches – brisket, pulled pork, Cubano, fried chicken lead the charge. Based […]
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Image: Leftovers likely. Last Updated: May 2026 NOTE: The restaurant closed. Will be replaced by a bank. A true loss for the District. Overview: It is a big bright room looking out onto 14 Street. On weekends, groups of people gather outside waiting for a table. Inside a team bustles, swerving between the many tables […]
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Image: Skewered Last Updated: January 2025 Overview: The name gives it away. Bar Japonais is centered around the big bar in the middle of the space, but it is of relative maturity with people enjoying well-made cocktails, wine, sake, and beer. Like Estadio that occupied the space previously, the bar is a great place to […]
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Image: Ducking. Last Updated: December 2024 Overview: Mallard is a crowd-pleaser of a restaurant taking over the space previously occupied by Birth & Barley. It is also a personal restaurant from one of D.C.’s best chefs, Hamilton Johnson. Johnson hails from South Carolina, which provides the theme of the menu. The name Mallard is also […]
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Image: Attention was paid. Last Updated: September 2024 Overview: Takara 14 is a great neighborhood gem. It has gotten some nods and publicity, but it deserves more. The brainchild of owner Jenistar Ruksirisopha, it does Japanese in a fun, cute, sunny setting on the second-floor space previously occupied by Baan Thai. It is worth remembering […]
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Image: Power Puffs. Overview: There is a trick that restaurants can pull off. With just a few touches and accents they can make you feel removed from the grit of the world outside. Pappe’s interior does this. The high ceiling with draped boldly-colored fabrics and warm lighting set a mood. It doesn’t transport you to […]
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Image: Cubano Last Updated: March 2023 Overview: There are now multiple Colada Shops around the region. What they have in common is a sunny disposition, some pretty good food, and drinks made for fun. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The core of the menu is sandwiches, snacks and bowls. The new location south of […]
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Image: Locked, Stocked, and Bottled. Last Updated: November 2022 Current Status: Sit-down service inside and sidewalk tables under an awning outside. Overview: It takes some moxie to open a wine bar on the same street as Cork and serve French food less than a block from Le Diplomate. That is what the small wine bar […]
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