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Image: Wholly Guacamole. Last Updated: July 2025 Overview: Sometimes a place feels like a perfect neighborhood anchor with great food and a friendly and warm atmosphere. Pascual fits that profile, but the complicating factor is that it is too good. Pascual does inventive and excellent Mexican from the team that is doing inventive and excellent […]
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Image: Tasty little dumplings! Last Updated: October 2024 Overview: Like many things involving Ukraine, the timeline was delayed, but the anticipation was high. A chef from the legendary Ukrainian restaurant in New York, Veselka, announced that he was going to open a spot in May 2022. And we waited. World events placed Ukraine, Ukraine’s people, […]
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Image: Deep thoughts. Last Updated: October 2024 Overview: The frills are limited, but the options are bountiful. Della Barba does four different takes on pizza with lots of topping options for each one. The options are: Chicago deep dish, Detroit-style, NY thin, and a thicker Sicilian “Nonna” style. Meat toppings include classics like pepperoni, sausage, […]
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Image: Lower case, top shelf. Last Updated: June 2024 Overview: Barrel is part of a group of respected bars, including the solid wine bar The Eastern a block away and McClellan’s Retreat, the low-slung cocktail bar on the north side of Dupont. Barrel stakes its reputation on three things: a large whiskey selection, especially bourbon; […]
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Image: Fired up, ready to go. Last Updated: May 2024 Overview: The Japanese-themed food hall next to L’Ardente at the apron of Capitol Hill has filled out its offerings. A long post-industrial walkway painted bright red leads you from the entrance past the sushi spot, then the Japanese steakhouse, and ends with a windowless open […]
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Image: Simple. Sublime. Last Updated: March 2024 Overview: The focus here is a Roman-style flatbread called pinsa. It does not look that much different from Neapolitan-style pizza with puffed-up edges, thin crust and sizzling toppings out of the wood-burning oven, but there are subtle differences. It is oval in shape, not a circle. The dough […]
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Image: Carton of Goodness Last Updated: October 2023 Overview: The heart of the menu at District Rico is pollo a la brasa, Peruvian-style chicken cooked on a rotisserie. It is so imbued with flavor that sauces are not necessary and may distract. Tim Carman provides this backstory on the chicken’s preparation in a 2022 review […]
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Image: Salads on marble. Last Updated: April 2025 Overview: NOTE: Joselito closed in early 2025. Do you ever find a restaurant that feels like you are being let in on the secrets of a cuisine? Spanish may not be the same as French, Italian, or Chinese in terms of ubiquity in the States, but it […]
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