A Navigation Tool for Dining in DC
Image: Dips and Specials. Last Updated: September 2023 Overview: Méli has a few interesting plot twists on the way to a very good take on Greek. It is located off the lobby of a new apartment building, with residents and dogs wandering through your field of vision out the side door that you enter from. […]
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Image: Spreads Last Updated: March 2024 (Closed April 7, 2024) Overview: There are restaurants that exist for its neighborhood. They do food that could justify broader acclaim and recognition. They could try to gain a wider customer base, but they are happy to do good food for those who live nearby. It is often a […]
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Image: Lamb and Sprouts Last Updated: June 2022 Current Status: Open for sit-down service inside and a large outdoor seating area out front. Take-out and Delivery also available. Overview For years, Zaytinya has managed to produce very good food on an grand scale. The giant, two-story windows surround an open space that seats hundreds. Inside, […]
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Image: The crust, the cheese, oh my. Last Updated: May 2022 Current Status: Open for Dine-in both inside and out (uncovered) and Take-out, Wednesday through Sunday. Overview: In a dimly-lit basement a big, white, gas-fired pizza oven turns out distinctive sourdough crust pies. Tim Carman writing in the Post was jolted by the tanginess of […]
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Image: Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Proserpine (1882). This piece is by an English painter with an Italian name painting a Greek goddess as a stand-in for the married woman the painter pines for. This week we took in a show at the Kennedy Center for the first time since before times. The show, Hadestown, is a […]
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Image: Eggplant Involtini with bacon and feta. Last Updated: 7/5/2021 Current Status: Iron Gate is open for dining Tues-Sun on the patio. The dining room and bar area do not appear to be open yet. They continue doing take-out/delivery. It is also part of the Neighborhood Restaurant Group single outlet for take-out and delivery drawing […]
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Image: Serving platters almost as large as serving sizes. (photo from the Greek Deli) Last Updated: March 2024 Overview The line can stretch out the door to get to the narrow counter where Kostas Fostieris has been serving customers for going on three decades. The Greek captain’s hat and the husky commanding voice make it […]
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