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Officina, 1120 Maine Ave SW, Washington DC (The Wharf)
I should have been in a better mood when I left Officina after dinner last Friday night. I’d just eaten at one of the most anticipated …READ MORE »
Call Your Mother – A Jew-ish Deli, 3301 Georgia Ave NW, Washington DC (Parkview)
Open Tuesday – Sunday, 8 am – 2 pm
The much-anticipated Call Your Mother deli opened last Thursday in Parkview. On Friday, …READ MORE »
St. Anselm, 1250 5th St NE, Washington DC (near Union Market)
St. Anselm has only been open a few weeks but it’s already made my short list of best new restaurants of 2018.
I can’t say …READ MORE »
Primrose, 3000 12th St NE, Washington DC
Ellē, 3221 Mt. Pleasant St NW, Washington DC
There may be nothing in the food world harder to pull off than a great neighborhood restaurant. So many pieces …READ MORE »
Sababa, 3311 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington DC
Israeli food is hot. I’ll bet a lot of you have at least one cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi sitting on your shelf as we speak. The American Ottolenghi, …READ MORE »
Unconventional Diner, 1207 9th St NW, Washington DC
Bresca, 1906 14th St NW, Washington DC
There’s no obvious reason to review these two restaurants together, other than the fact that I ate at them both …READ MORE »
Momofuku CCDC, 1090 I St NW, Washington DC
If you haven’t been to Momofuku lately, you haven’t been to Momofuku.
You might remember when local-boy-turned-Manhattan-celebrity-chef David Chang announced he was opening an outpost of Momofuku in …READ MORE »
If you had 2017 or early 2018 in the office pool predicting when the DC restaurant bubble would burst, sorry, you’re out of contention (but not as quickly as me for picking Virginia to get …READ MORE »
Rose’s Luxury, 717 8th Street SE, Washington DC
I had dinner last Tuesday at Rose’s Luxury. But it felt more like the final scene from The Way We Were. It was poignant. It was wistful. If …READ MORE »
Himitsu, 828 Upshur Street NW, Washington DC
Himitsu means “secret” in Japanese, a bit of irony that seems funnier once you’re comfortably seated in this 24-seat jewel box than when you’re standing outside in twenty-degree …READ MORE »
Chloe by Haidar Karoum, 1331 4th Street SE, Washington DC
Brothers and Sisters, 1770 Euclid St NW (in The Line Hotel), Washington DC
The thing that bothers me about restaurants that encourage sharing isn’t the …READ MORE »
Requin at The Wharf, 100 District Square SW, Washington DC
My wife doesn’t quite understand my obsession with knowing if the head chef is in the kitchen when we eat out. Chefs train their subordinates …READ MORE »
Welcome to my first installment of Rick’s Cheap Eats. It won’t be the last. There are a lot of holes left to fill, including Korean, Vietnamese, BBQ, ‘Po boys, and kabobs (see separate posts on …READ MORE »
It seems like you can’t get away from burgers these days. Look at the menu the next time you sit down to dinner. If you don’t see a burger, enjoy the sushi or the vindaloo.
It …READ MORE »