The menu has been revamped to concentrate on the house specialties, weeding out the chaff. In the Washington Post, January 7, 1982, there is an account of the unfathomably named Richard Hamilton Herrud Houghton III. The kitchen's unique character blooms at dinner. L $4.40-$8.20, D $7.40-$18. L $4.25-$7.50, D $10.75-$17. MC, V. No reservations. Platters are handsomely decorated. L $3.50-$3.95, D $4.95-$6.95. Thai Room 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. Patent Pending National Portrait Gallery, 9th and G Sts. AE, CB, D, MC, V. $7Reservations suggested on weekends. Street parking. Open daily. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. Children's prices. One of the most attractive and ambitious Italian restaurants in town has succumbed to lassitude. Parking garage. But that is the proof for anyone who doubts that Washington is a good restaurant city. Full bar service. Petitto's 2653 Connecticut Ave. NW. 223-3794. Its window walls fill the scene with the four-season beauty of Rock Creek Park. The dining room, arranged with raised platform and balcony in addition to the main dining room, is dark wood with bright blue accents, a bit old and a bit new and very much in the spirit of a Bierstube. Then, there are dishes like the duck, stringy and gravy-sodden, yet the highest priced on the menu. The Big Cheese 3139 M St. NW. Closed Sun.AE, MC, V. Reservations requested. Crowding like a full-blown garden are the wood tables with grassy mats, and plates flamboyantly garnished with greens, fruits and vegetables. Valet parking for dinner only. The safest dishes I tried were sweetbreads in a calvados-scented cream and beef medallions in a mustard cream with an irrelevant garnish of prune. L, D $2.50-$10.95. Full bar service. And, for dessert, strawberry shortcake is unusual and creamy. AE, MC, V. Reservations accepted, only for eight or more at lunch. Parking lot. AE, D, MC, V. No reservations. Closed Sun. Must all good things really come to an end? If you are a resident of another country or region, please select the appropriate version of Tripadvisor for your country or region in the drop-down menu. New York City. L $3.95-$6.95, D $5.95-$9.50. Parking lot. Full bar service. L $2.95-$5.10, D $4.95-$7.95. Full bar service. Few other restaurants, particularly in the Maryland suburbs serve so much so well for so little. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. NW. Hugo's Hyatt Regency Hotel, 400 New Jersey Ave. NW. D daily. Reservations required. Full bar service. Skip the fettucine alfredo and finish with one of this town's really good cannoli. Rating 13/20. Full bar service. L daily ex Sat, D daily. Open daily. Children's prices. 652-1700. AE, MC, V. No reservations. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations accepted. mChildren's prices. Street parking. 683-4112. Once a small storefront eating place, Caffe Italiano has expanded to three rooms on two floors decorated with Impressionist paintings and mirrors, white candles on the tablecloths and black vests on the waiters. L $2.95-$5.75, D $4-$9. An exception is dessert, for the pastries, particularly the liqueur-soaked tortes, are elaborate and highly professional. And diners are ordering more lightly. Parking in front. Reservations suggested. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily. Open daily. Its pre- and post- theater dinners are a remarkable bargain. It is several restaurants scattered from Columbia to Tysons Corner; it is a Washington institution and live museum of American pub culture; it is Georgetown's longest running mixer. It takes a zeal for devising and revising recipes and cooking methods to come up with basil-scented pasta doughs and pasta sauces rich and complex. L $3.50-$8.25, D $6.50-$14.95. Open daily. La Maree's more modest self-introduction leaves room for unexpected pleasures. La Ruche's formula still works well, despite the opening o branches, moving of site, revisions of staff and heavy competition from newer French cafes. Beer and wine only. Tiled and sunny, it is certainly pretty. Alpine 4770 Lee Hwy. Parking in adjacent lot. Beer and wine only. Prices are higher than one expects for a casual stop, a plate of food that is good but not memorable, sullied by mushy canned vegetables. Pakoras are likely to be heavy and tough, less acceptable. L $8.25-$11.95, D $11.75-$17.50. Most unusual among the appetizers are crispy shrimp balls and vegetable curl, the smoky diced bits to be wrapped in letturce. The population was shrinking, wealth flowed out to the suburbs, and you could buy a Northwest rowhouse for five figures. AE, D, MC, V. No reservations. Ae, cb, d, mc, v. Reservations suggested. Ae, cb, d, mc, v. Reservations suggested.Parking lot. L $4-$10.50, D $8.50-$13.50. L $2.75-$4.95, D $5.50-$7.95. No-smoking section. But the execution of the dishes ranges from excellent -- moist crayfish in impeccable white butter sauce, oysters fried on skewers and bedded on spinach, thick veal medallions with fleshy, woodsy mushrooms -- to fishy, oversalted salmon terrine that should have been relegated to the cats. AE, V. Reservations required. Embrace music at the 14th Annual D.C. Record Fair Fellini's Pizza. L, D daily. Full bar service. It has baba ghanouj and taramasalata, cucumbers with yogurt and mashed potato dip, all to be scooped with toasted pita sprinkled with oregano. Entdecke 1980er Jahre BOSTON SEAFOOD COMPANY Restaurantmen - Washington DC & St. Louis in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! Hu Nan 4660 Kenmore Ave., Alexandria. Beer and wine only. The best details are the fresh orange juice or espresso over the morning paper, a soup or pastry break to finish your last chapter. L $4-$5, D $4-$7. Free shipping for many products! L $4.25-$9.95, D $9.95-$15.95. Stacker compiled a list of the highest rated restaurants in Washington, D.C. from Tripadvisor. Twigs Capital Hilton, 16th and K Sts. 1983 The Food Marketing Institute reports that 2/3 of all fish consumed in the U.S. is eaten in restaurants. L daily ex Sun, D daily. Full bar service. Enchiladas are better ordered at a Mexican restaurant rather than here, and roast pork is likely to be fatty. Tom Sarris Orleans House. The gravlax is an extraordinary idea, the cured salmon charcoal-grilled very briefly, just so the surface is seared and the smoke has permeated the flesh. Soup at 75 cents -- sometimes good, sometimes not -- and a very good simple salad at the same price fill out a meal of mountainous portions of superlative chicken or shrimp salad, hash or omelets or chopped steak with irresistible homemade potato chips called Palm fries. Street parking. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. Pierce Street Annex 1210 19th St. Nw. L $3.85-$7.25, D $5.50-$9.90. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily. Two cautions: The coffee isn't even strong enough to tint a tablecloth, and throughout dinner you might want to look out for slices of those 20 pounds of garlic. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations required. Vernon. Full bar service. Entering through the kitchen and lunch counter, you are met by wonderful smells of unusual spices and charcoal-grilling. L $2.95-$6.50, D $6.45-$8.95. 347-7100. What is a nice little Italian restaurant like this doing overcooking its fritto misto and turning its cheese sauce into mock Velveeta? But the food has more elegance than personality, and the service can be imperious if you are unknown to the staff. Cafe Tatti 6627 Old Dominion Dr., McLean. L, D daily. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. Children's prices. L $3.25-$7.50, D $5.95-$10.50. . Full bar service. Bare linoleum, a bakery counter, beaded curtains and a well-scrubbed air make up the Arabian Nights, a family-run operation that is just short of eating in someone's home. Les Ambassadeurs 1310 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Start with samosas, flaky fried dough triangles stuffed with spiced meat or vegetables and dipped into a wonderful sweet-hot-tart tamarind chutney. D daily. L daily ex Sat, D daily. La Mancha 5515 Cherokee Ave., Alexandria. Guitar music in the evening turns El Caribe into a festival. Draw your orders particularly from the list of daily specials and hope they include Germaine's new glazed chicken with carmel sauce.Even if it is not on the menu, ask for pine cone fish, scored and lightly fried filet of sea trout. elan 2020 K St. NW. Rather, it is siimple cooking with a deft touch to the sauces and special care in homey details. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations accepted for five or more only. Full bar service. 828-2608. Rafters at Landmark 2 S. Whiting St., Alexandria. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. Parking lot. D (fixed price) $25, $30, $40 or $60. Open daily. E, MC, V. Reservations suggested. d.c. space 443 7th St. NW. American Cafe 1211 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Washington has many elegant restaurants, but most of those serving good food in luxurious surrounding are either French or Italian. Full bar service. Secretly enclosed behind a large wooden fence, entering the restaurant reveals a warm outdoor lounge with firepits and fairy lights that . $4.25-$9.25, D $5.75-$9.50. Street parking. Full bar service. Full bar service. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily. Street parking. Ae, cb, d, mc, v. Reservations required. Hill - 406 8th St SE) The Greenery (18th btw L and M) The Guards (2915 M St NW) The Hayloft. This kind of wrap-and-dip food is not only fun, it is light eating and sufficiently crunchy and cool to appeal to flagging summer appetites. L $4.50-$8.85, D $9.75-$15.75. T. Gregory's 2915 M St. NW. After years of being one of Washington's great bargain restaurants, the Thai Room seems to have taken a nosedive. Commercial parking lots. 998-5115. 452-126. Best Restaurants in Staten Island, New York. 965-2350. Old South Mountain Inn Boonesboro, Md. The menu includes perfectly good versions of all the Mexican staples; burritos, chiles rellenos, chalupas, enchiladas, nachos, refried beans and tamales. And any Formica luncheonette where you wait in line to pay $11.50 for flounder stuffed with crabmeat is bound to be good. L $9.50-$10.95, D $11.95-$26. Children's prices. Street parking. Napoleon's 2649 Connecticut ave. NW. No-smoking section. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. Full bar service. More. Full bar service. Amalfi 12307 Wilkins Ave., Rockville. Street parking or nearby lots. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations accepted. Service remains inscrutable but efficient. Service is formal, attentive. Children's prices. 833-8870. Street parking. Landini Brothers 115 King St., Alexandria. 824-0909. Ocean ix 1323 Fenwick Lane, Silver Spring. Children's prices. Full bar service. Its high intentions are apparent from the start, from the curved brick stairway under a grand canopy. One night the specials alone included two kinds of crayfish, lamb with ginger, veal with cepes, lotte with tarragon and softshell crabs. The softshell crabs earlier in the season were as good as anywhere twice the price. Axum 2307 18th St. NW. L, D daily. The Sunset does not get so intense as to peel its own potatoes or bake its own pies, but it serves homemade food, up to a point. But Apana has changed its seating arrangements so that you can no longer expect a high-backed booth allowing privacy, but are likely to be seated a few inches from the next table. 532-9290. Gino's Hamburgers was a fast-food restaurant chain founded in Baltimore, Maryland by Baltimore Colts defensive end Gino Marchetti and running back Alan Ameche, along with their close friends Joe Campanella and Louis Fischer, in 1957.A new group of restaurants under the Gino's name, involving some of the principals of the original chain, was started in 2010. MC, V. Reservations accepted, suggested on weekends. D $6.50-$14.95. From Duke Zeibert's to . Closed Mon. 1621. 659-2388. Order small bowls of stewed chicken, lamb or beef, either mildly spiced with cumin, cinnamon and the like, or hotly peppered with red pepper paste; spoon mounds of the meats and side dishes of braised cabbage and green beans and carrots in between, then start tearing and scooping. The more elaborate dishes taste as if the cook were blindly following recipes, adding too much herb or not controlling the frying temperature, but the ingredients are good, and the lemony cheesecake and extraordinarily good pecan pie are obviously made by skilled hands. This garden-green French restaurant is frest, pretty and formal. It takes an owner on the premises, watching both the kitchen and the door, and caring supremely whether each diner enjoys the meal. an.". Even the chocolate mousse was dried out. Location. Open daily. Try it for dim sum; the list is long and a few of the options -- crisp crab boxes, steamed shrimp and pork dumplings, several kinds of chow foon -- are excellent. The wine is poured into tumblers, as it would be in such a restaurant in Italy. Restaurants listed but not reviewed requested inclusion. 1520 14th St NW, Washington DC, DC 20005-3722 - Read more on Tripadvisor. Aluisi 9867 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls, Va. 759-4921. Parking lots. Masseria's lip-smacking, swirled linguine with XO sauce / Masseria. AE, CB, D, V. Reservations suggested. Parking lot. Mc, v. Reservations suggested. The dining rooms are ample but still of intimate scale. L daily ex Sun, D daily.AE, MC, V. No reservations. II Nido 4712 Wisconsin Ave. NW 363-2672. Full bar service. 667-0047. Fortunes shift, and fans shift back and forth between Georgetown's two side-by-side Vietnamese restaurants with this, the corner one, being the insiders' current favorite. L $4.50-$8.75, D $8.75-$14.75. L $5.25-$8.50, D $9.25-$18.50. It would be an improvement to add small, appetizer-priced portions o quiches and pates, particularly since the quiche -- high, fragile custard with a golden surface and shimmery texture -- is worthy of your special attention. This grandiose red and gold shopping center Chinese restaurant has benefited from the conversion, for the food is now fresh and carefully cooked, served in generous portions. Beer and wine only. b Malabar 4934 Wisconsin Ave. NW. A mild introduction to Ethiopian fire, Axum's food is not the best among local Ethiopian restaurants, but the reasonable prices and gracious room add points. La Ruche of Georgetown 1039 31st St., NW. Parking lots. The waiters and chef are garrulous, eager to involve you as a friend of the house. 1443 K St. NW. Children's prices. Open daily. Children's prices. Clyde's is a series of attractive stage sets for playing out the Georgetown breakfast, the Georgetown brunch, the George-after-dark. In general, this is routine cooking with decorator touches, the highlights likely to be from the pastry table. And, obviously, it becomes addictive. Open daily. Valent parking for dinner. Parking lots on either side. 333-6605. But it is now furnished with basket tables from Ethiopia and folk art on the walls, along with the original booths. Roof Terrace Kennedy Center, 2700 F St., NW. Parking in Colonial garage at dinner only. Parking in rear. Open daily. Or the noodle turnovers can be fried, with the yogurt on the side. Open daily. L $2.25-$3.75, D $4.25-$10.95. Kebabs are tender and juicy, only mildly seasoned, so that the charcoal flavor predominates. Cool "Disco" Dan was a graffiti artist in DC in the 1980s. The Eatery White Flint Mall, Bethesda. Initials are of credit cards accepted. Closed Sun. The cooking at Nora is better than ever, the soups dense with flavor, the lunchtime picadillo sweetly spiced with cumin, onions and peppers. No credit cards. 640 reviews. Early to mid 1980s Restaurant. 7. The Hunan lamb and beef offer a brilliant interplay of pepper, vinegar and soy with a touch of sweetness that is uniquely Hunanese. Street parking. Closed Sun. 365-2425. L $3.25-$4.95, D $3.95-$6.95. Domino's Pizza. I will try to get to them next year. Free parking in garage next door. Cedar Knoll Inn George Washington Memorial Pkwy., Mt. Rustic and reasonable, with creditable food, Vietnam Georgetown is a neighborhood ethnic restaurant that just doesn't happen to be in an ethnic neighborhood. Parking adjacent lot.Full bar service. washington, dc restaurants in the 1980s. Full bar service. Parking lot across the street after 6 p.m. Full bar service. The Wharf 119 King St., Alexandria. MC, V. Reservations suggested. Street parking. This intensely popular Chinese restaurant is so because its food can be and often is among the handful of Washington's best.

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