The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near Fiola
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Rank 1. Fiola
Modern Italian
Stone walls and retro glamour frame Fiola's elegant dining room, where servers guide you through a menu that marries Roman tradition with Venetian flavors and playful modern invention. Duck-filled pasta squares arrive in their own jus; lamb plays against red pepper gel and eggplant caponata. Regional Italian cooking here feels both grounded and restless.
- 50 Top Italy 2025 · #6 · The Best Italian Restaurants In The World
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
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Rank 2. minibar by José Andrés
Contemporary
A single door opens onto José Andrés's culinary laboratory, where guests perch at a curved counter to watch small plates arrive as puzzles—chicharron masquerading as something else, cauliflower studded with caviar. Whimsy and surprise drive each course toward a finale of fried ice cream donuts, the kind of playful confidence that makes dinner feel like collaborative theater.
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Rank 3. Rasika
Modern Indian
A few blocks from Metro Center, Rasika fills a high-ceilinged room with the sound of satisfied diners working through kebabs and curries built on careful spicing and restraint. The lamb rogan josh arrives in glossy, layered depth; the naan—order extra—arrives warm and charred. A place equally at home hosting a casual dinner or a business meal, executed without pretense.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Ashok Bajaj - Knightsbridge Restaurant Group
- Eater The All-Time Eater 38
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 4. Moon Rabbit
Modern Vietnamese
Kevin Tien's Moon Rabbit, now in a sleek F Street space, merges Cajun and Vietnamese traditions through dishes like mochi beignets with eel and quail stuffed with duck sausage over tomato rice. The desserts—particularly a vegan pandan panna cotta with seaweed and chocolate—confirm his instinct for balancing opposing flavors with genuine skill.
- 50 Best 2025 · North American's Best Pastry Chef Award 2025 · Susan Bae
- 50 Best 2025 · #17 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Susan Bae
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · World’s Best Cocktail Menu
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- 50 Best 2026 · Siete Misterios Best Cocktail Menu Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- 50 Best 2026 · #55 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire 2023 · Silver Service Martini · The Best Martinis in America
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Rank 8. The Bazaar by José Andrés
Avant-Garde Spanish
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Rank 9. Dōgon
African Caribbean
Inside the Salamander Hotel, Kwame Onwuachi's Dōgon presents small and large plates that blur African and Caribbean traditions with Washington swagger—the hoe crab arrives in its shell with shito and plantain cakes, the rum cake darkened by charred gooseberries. Each dish arrives composed and purposeful, the wine list equally considered, the whole operation bent on flavor over convention.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Condé Nast Traveler 2024 · The best new restaurants in the world
- 50 Best 2025 · #37 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
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- Washingtonian 2026 · #21 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
- Washingtonian 2025 · Crab Rangoon · Our Favorite Dishes of the Year in the DC Area
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Rank 11. Cranes
Spanish/Japanese
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Rank 12. Centrolina
Italian
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Amy Brandwein
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Amy Brandwein
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Rank 13. Amazonia
Amazonian Peruvian
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · World’s Best Spirits Selection
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar
- Eater 2022 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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Rank 14. Sushi Nakazawa
Sushi
Dark wood and gold frame marble counters where Nakazawa's team moves with surgical precision, each of twenty courses—from Japanese squid to torched belly—arriving like a small revelation. A luxurious two-hour omakase that justifies every minute of attention.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Washingtonian 2026 · #48 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
- Washingtonian 2025 · #42 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 15. Rania
Indian
Rania treats Indian cuisine as a living thing, evolving through unexpected dishes like chana masala panisse and hay-aged pork vindaloo that honor tradition while refusing its constraints. Each plate arrives with the precision of fine dining and the soul of a kitchen that knows exactly what it's doing.
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- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. East
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. East
- Eater The Best Cocktail Bars in D.C.
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Rank 17. Cucina Morini
Sicilian Italian
A lively Sicilian outpost where the crowded bar hums with energy and Chef Matt Adler's kitchen turns out sfincione topped with stracciatella and hand-rolled pastas—thick gramigna noodles with sausage and egg yolk, finished with a whisper of heat—that prove comfort food need not sacrifice skill or care.
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Matthew Adler
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Matt Adler
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Fernando Gonzalez
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Fernando Gonzalez
- The Rammys 2025 · Finalist · Casual Restaurant of the Year
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Rank 20. Zaytinya by José Andrés
Mediterranean
José Andrés' sleek Mediterranean dining room excels at mezze—mushroom kapnista with dates and labneh, spreads with warm pita, braised lamb—executed with unfussy confidence. The wine list honors Greek and Lebanese producers; the room suits power lunches and quiet dinners equally.
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Rank 21. Café Unido
Panamanian
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Rank 22. Jaleo
Spanish
Inside a maximalist dining room of vivid tile and glass, José Andrés' tapas flagship pulses with the kind of energy that makes strangers lean toward each other across shared plates. Marinated olives give way to squid in its own ink, chicken fritters, paella with rabbit—a menu of Spanish classics executed with enough confidence that repetition across a dozen cities hasn't dulled the formula.
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Rank 23. Your Only Friend
Gastropub
A sandwich bar that carries itself with cocktail-bar sophistication, Your Only Friend pairs clever-titled handheld meals—the "Hot Nug" topped with Nashville sauce, mortadella and mozzarella on the "Mortz & Mootz"—with rotating specials like blue cheese-brined wings and a sharp cocktail program. The mood is neighborhood casual, the execution deliberate.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. East
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Washingtonian 2026 · #89 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 24. Oyamel Cocina Mexicana
Mexican
José Andrés' spirited Mexican kitchen favors technique and regional precision: crispy chilaquiles, gorditas crowned with duck confit, a haunting black bean soup perfumed with avocado leaves. The ceviche bar hums with activity and strong cocktails, while a generous happy hour menu makes early evening the optimal time to linger.
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Omar Rodriguez
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Rank 25. The Dabney
Mid-Atlantic American
At The Dabney, a wood-fired hearth anchors a spare, brick-walled dining room where chef Jeremiah Langhorne pursues Mid-Atlantic flavors with quiet conviction. His tasting menu moves from delicate snacks through roasted vegetables and charred wagyu with three-way eggplant, each plate a controlled study in restraint.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Washington, D.C., Right Now
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Rank 26. Baan Siam
Thai
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Washington, D.C., Right Now
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants Around D.C.
- Washingtonian 2026 · #76 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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- Wine Enthusiast 2025 · Top 50 New Restaurants
- Washingtonian The Hot List: 10 Restaurants Around DC We’re Loving Right Now
- Washingtonian 2026 · #66 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 29. Bar Chinois
Cocktail Bar
The room hums with the particular electricity of a French wine bar transplanted into dim sum service, cocktails threaded through with kombu and bonito flakes, dumplings arriving in half-moons and clouds. A pork meatball braised in its own jus achieves an almost impossible lightness, the kitchen's seriousness evident in every plate.
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- Time Out The 20 Best Coffee Shops and Cafés in Washington, DC
- Washingtonian Best Coffee Shops in DC
- Eater The 15 Best Coffee Shops Around D.C.
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Rank 31. Karizma
Modern Indian
Karizma serves authentic Indian cuisine in Penn Quarter with naan elevated by truffle and paneer lajawab that gleams with restrained richness. The cocktail program matches the kitchen's ambition, pivoting between spirit-forward drinks and inventive alcohol-free options.
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Rank 32. Café du Parc
French
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Rank 33. L’Ardente
Italian
The soaring dining room at Capitol Crossing frames Chef David Deshaies' Italian cooking with the same care he lavishes on his layered lasagna—tender short rib and truffled pasta sheets that justify their reputation. Wood smoke from the grill and pizza oven seasons everything here, from bucatini cacio e pepe to lamb ragu, each plate worth the attention it receives.
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Rank 34. Dolcezza
Italian Dessert
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Rank 35. Causa
Nikkei Peruvian
Chef Carlos Delgado's intimate tasting menu traces a path from Lima's coast through the Andes and Amazon, folding Japanese technique into Peruvian seafood and spice. Causa, the namesake dish of mashed potato and ají amarillo crowned with tuna, and a wagyu finished in Peruvian pepper sauce, chart a precise geography of flavor.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Best New Restaurant
- Eater 2022 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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- Washingtonian 9 Delicious Doughnut Shops Around DC
- The Rammys 2025 · Finalist · Beer Program of the Year
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Rank 37. Beloved BBQ
Japanese
A Japanese steakhouse in Capitol Crossing where tableside grills and neon hallways set the stage for A5 Wagyu and prime cuts finished with citrus and heat. The kitchen coats each grain of fried rice in umami-rich yolk, turning each dish into theater.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater The Best Tasting Menus in D.C. Right Now
- Washingtonian 2025 · #26 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 38. Karma Modern Indian
Modern Indian
- The Washington Post The 40 Best Restaurants In and Around D.C.
- Eater The Best Tasting Menus in D.C. Right Now
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Rank 39. Dear Sushi
Sushi
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Rank 41. Café Riggs
Contemporary French
A polished European brasserie in a historic room of brass, marble, and Art Deco velvet, where sharp service and classical cooking—Wagyu tartare, saffron risotto, chocolate soufflé—meet without pretension. Business lunches and post-work drinks flow through the same convivial space.
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Rank 42. Oyster Oyster
Vegetarian
A vegetable-focused tasting menu that somehow leaves you energized rather than depleted. Rob Rubba's compositions—eggplant agnolotti in corn broth, squash baton with seed ricotta—work from the premise that vegetables need not be a compromise. Even bread arrives reimagined, layered with garlic and accompanied by marigold-flecked sunflower spread, a signal that nothing here is incidental.
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Winner · Outstanding Chef · Rob Rubba
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Food & Wine 2025 · The Top 15 US Restaurants
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- Food & Wine 2023 · Mentaiko and Corn Pizza · Best Dishes Our Editors Ate This Year
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants Around D.C.
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Rank 46. Irish Channel
Irish
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Rank 47. Unconventional Diner
Modern New American
White walls and seafoam booths frame a kitchen that treats diner conventions as a starting point rather than gospel: kale nachos, meatloaf spiked with sriracha and morel gravy, roasted cauliflower with tahini and fried chickpeas. The chicken pot pie bites are nearly impossible to refuse. Expect a wait.
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Rank 49. Dua Coffee
Indonesian
- Eater The 15 Best Coffee Shops Around D.C.
- Time Out The 20 Best Coffee Shops and Cafés in Washington, DC
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- The Rammys 2025 · Finalist · Wine Program of the Year
- The Rammys 2025 · Finalist · Hottest Sandwich Spot of the Year
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Rank 51. Shōtō
Modern Japanese
A volcanic stone cascade and ivy-clad walls frame Shōtō's bar and dining counter in the converted Washington Post building, where the lighting flatters everyone equally. Robata-grilled skewers and pristine sushi arrive alongside Japanese whiskeys and cocktails that taste like they were calibrated in a lab.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Washington Post The 40 Best Restaurants In and Around D.C.
- The Washington Post The 40 Best Restaurants In and Around D.C.
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Rank 53. The Dubliner
Irish British
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Trabocchi's coastal dining room overlooks the Potomac with resort-chic restraint, its menu balancing pristine seafood and Spanish traditions. Barely cooked fish and seasonal tapas anchor a refined approach to Iberian flavors.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Washingtonian 2026 · #49 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
- Washingtonian 2025 · #47 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 55. Ottoman Taverna
Turkish
The dining room stages Istanbul through honeycomb tilework and a Hagia Sophia mural, all whitewashed walls and deep-blue pendants, while apple-rose tea steadies the hand before meze arrives. Modern Turkish cooking—adana kebab with red pepper, house-made baklava, the ceremonial coffee—moves with the confidence of a place that knows what it does.
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Rank 57. Mandu
Korean
Chef Yesoon Lee and her son Danny serve the kind of Korean cooking that moves beyond the familiar—pointed stews, vibrant banchan, plump dumplings—in a Mount Vernon space with soaring ceilings and a long bar. The gamjatang, a bone-in pork rib soup swimming in gochugaru-fired broth, is the kind of dish that justifies a return visit in any season.
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Rank 58. Shouk
Middle Eastern
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- Eater The 15 Best Coffee Shops Around D.C.
- Washingtonian Best Coffee Shops in DC
- Time Out The 20 Best Coffee Shops and Cafés in Washington, DC
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Rank 61. Rumi’s Kitchen
Persian
A soaring dining room wrapped in earthen and jewel tones frames a display kitchen where a tandoor glows behind the bar. Rumi's Kitchen works through Persian classics with assured technique—green tahini hummus with urfa chili, lamb shank braised in tomato—and closes with rosewater pistachio ice cream or baklava. The space manages grandeur without pretense, a room built for lingering.
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Rank 63. Ama
Northern Italian
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Johanna Hellrigl
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants Around D.C.
- The Rammys 2025 · Finalist · New Restaurant of the Year
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Rank 64. The Bombay Club
Indian
A decades-old Penn Quarter institution where senators occupy half-moon banquettes and Indian cuisine glides between regional traditions with restrained sophistication. The braised lamb curry carries subtle sweetness, the kulcha bridges goat cheese and spice, nothing shouts.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Ashok Bajaj - Knightsbridge Restaurant Group
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Washington Post The 40 Best Restaurants In and Around D.C.
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Rank 65. Michele’s
French-inspired New American
The brasserie lives in the Eaton Hotel as a monument to Chef Matt Baker's Gulf Coast roots—Houston grit, New Orleans soul. Roasted oysters and crawfish linguine sit comfortably alongside smashburgers and Nashville hot chicken; a bowl of pozole arrives as both sustenance and small mercy. This is American food in its most honest register, touched lightly by France, uninterested in pretense.
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Rank 66. Fish Shop
Seafood
A waterfront dining room with nautical flourishes and a patio facing the marina; the kitchen channels its Scottish sister restaurant through a Mid-Atlantic lens, sourcing Chesapeake fish and local produce to craft dishes like Maryland crab crumpets and whole fried puffer fish, finishing with Virginia peanut tiramisu that recasts Italian tradition.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Washingtonian 2026 · #77 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
- Eater Design of the Year · The 2025 Eater DC Award Winners
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Rank 67. L'Ardente
Italian
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · David Deshaies
- The Washington Post The 40 Best Restaurants In and Around D.C.
- Washingtonian 2025 · #21 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 69. Seven Reasons
Latin American
A bi-level dining room with an open kitchen frames ambitious cooking that draws from Venezuela, Peru, and the Caribbean. Patacón piña colada—fried green plantains layered with pickled pineapple, coconut, cilantro mojo, and caper mayo—exemplifies the generous portions and bold flavors that define the menu. Desserts like cacao and dark chocolate with basil cremeux show equal care and invention.
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Enrique Limardo
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Suresh Sundas
- Eater 2025 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- Washingtonian 2026 · #43 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 72. Cane
Trinidadian Caribbean
A narrow storefront with pastel walls and bright shutters channels Trinidad's sugar-cane legacy through street food that arrives vivid and alive: doubles puffed and tender, snapper escoveitch crackling with pickled heat, pepperpot breathing cinnamon and smoke. The kitchen executes each dish with a clarity that makes the spice sing rather than merely burn.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Washingtonian 2026 · #19 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
- Washingtonian 2025 · #17 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Emerging Chef · Anthony Jones
- Washingtonian 2026 · #32 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
- Eater Rising Chef · The 2025 Eater DC Award Winners · Anthony Jones
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- Bon Appétit 2025 · America's Best New Restaurants
- Washingtonian 2026 · #25 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
- The Washington Post 9 of the best restaurants in Shaw
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Rank 79. Supra
Central Asian
Georgian cooking executed with genuine care: crusty khachapuri filled with cheese and egg, spreads of tangy cheese and bread, mussels that gleam. The dining room's wood paneling and hanging sheep hats evoke the Caucasus without artifice, and the wine list honors Georgia's ancient traditions.
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Rank 81. All-Purpose
Italian-American Pizza
- Washingtonian 2026 · #85 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
- Washingtonian 2025 · #69 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 83. Tiger Fork
Hong Kong-style Chinese
A Hong Kong-style den tucked away from the main drag, Tiger Fork wraps you in brick walls painted with dragons, warehouse floors, and a sexy dimness. The cocktails—chartreuse and bergamot, say—matter as much as the food, though cheung fun, spicy wontons, and pork ribs glazed with soy and ginger justify the pilgrimage equally. A place that knows how to have fun without winking at you.
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Rank 85. Pascual
Contemporary Mexican
Isabel Coss and Matt Conroy's casual Mexican spot imports Mexico City cooking to Northeast D.C., where blue corn tamales and lamb neck barbacoa arrive meant for sharing. Reservations vanish quickly at this energetic kitchen that needs no blessing beyond its own technical precision.
- The New York Times 2024 · The Restaurant List
- Eater 2024 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Matt Conroy and Isabel Coss
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Rank 86. Kirwan's On The Wharf
Irish British
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Rank 87. Dauphine's
Cajun & Creole
A sprawling New Orleans kitchen that hides serious ambition behind a casual façade, serving silky oysters and blackened soft-shell crab with Creole precision. The three-level dining room finds its magic in intimate corners and cocktails that match the food's unhurried confidence.
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Massimo Fabbri's casual Tuscan spot, named for his son and lined with Tuscan photographs, dispenses with the formality of his previous restaurant for something warmer and more intimate. Squash blossoms stuffed with truffled goat cheese and handmade pasta crowned with black truffle announce a kitchen uninterested in restraint.
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- James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurateur · Scott Drewno and Danny Lee - The Fried Rice Collective
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Scott Drewno and Danny Lee - Fried Rice Collective
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Rank 92. Casa Teresa
Open-Fire Spanish
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Ruben Garcia
- Eater Chef of the Year · Rubén García
- The Rammys 2025 · Finalist · Chef of the Year · Rubén García Castilla
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In a Northeast DC storefront, Laotian flavors arrive with genuine heat and uncommon ingredients—green papaya salads sing with fermented fish sauce, tender dill curries fold in eggplant and bright vegetables. The kitchen honors both omnivores and vegans with equal care, backed by an ambitious cocktail program that refuses to coast.
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Rank 94. Grazie Nonna
American Italian
Gerald Addison and Casey Patten channel Patten's grandmother's kitchen through Italian-American cooking that refuses shortcuts—clams casino gleam with bacon and breadcrumbs, while Heather's pizza detours into pickled banana peppers. A packed bar hums with the comfort of Sunday supper elevated, where even the macaroni arrives dressed in garlic cream and prosciutto.
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Rank 95. CherCher Ethiopian Restaurant
Ethiopian
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