A Navigation Tool for Dining in DC
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: Lumpia. Last Updated: June 2025 Overview: There is a certain amount of sprawl associated with Purple Patch. Taking advantage of covid-era rules, it expanded its footprint to a huge streatery out front, in addition to the multiple rooms inside the old building where it resides (Note: they took down the streatery in July 2026).. […]
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Image: Shrooms for the soul. Last Updated: May 2025 NOTE: Haikan closed at the beginning of May 2025. Overview: Haikan is one of three ramen places opened by the Daikaya team, the others being Daikaya itself and chicken-centric Bantam King. (Hatoba at Navy Yard sadly came and went). Unlike Daikaya, Haikan is a big inviting […]
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Image: Veggies Last Updated: January 2024 Overview: The setting at Villa Yara is so well done with warmth and color that it seems ready made for diners to take pictures to post. Flowery ornaments overhead and a bar as you enter, give way to a long dining room with faded pink pastel accents, that leads […]
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Image: Lobstah! Last Updated: February 2022 Current Status: They are back to full hours at all three locations, open Tuesday to Sunday. (Note: Hank’s on the Hill closed in 2021). Take-out and Delivery available. Overview: Chef Jamie Leeds opened Hank’s Oyster Bar in Dupont with a straightforward idea: casual seafood. Bringing the food of seashore […]
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Image: Glasses behind the bar. Last Updated: 6/5/2021 Current Status: Maxwell Park has opened up seating at both locations. The food menu is limited at Shaw to snacks and grilled cheese. Navy Yard location has a few more items including sandwiches and dessert. They continue to offer 30% off the wine list for to-go sales. […]
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Picture: Interior at Zeppelin. It hasn’t crashed and burned yet. Last Updated 7/24/2021 Current Status: They are open for dine-in. Take-out and delivery options continue. Gift Cards Before Times Review: The priorities of the team behind Zeppelin, who also own Chaplin’s, aren’t difficult to suss out. The giant Godzilla mural on the outside (overlooking the […]
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