The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near Green Almond Pantry
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- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Cagla Onal
- Washingtonian The Hot List: 10 Restaurants Around DC We’re Loving Right Now
- Washingtonian 2026 · #14 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 2. Green Almond Pantry
Mediterranean
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Cagla Onal Urel
- Washingtonian 2026 · #59 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
- Washingtonian 2025 · #87 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. East
- Washingtonian 2026 · #75 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 6. Imperfecto
Latin American
A soaring glass box in Northwest Washington draws diners to a brass-and-marble counter where Chef Enrique Limardo oversees an intimate tasting menu rooted in Latin technique and premium ingredients. Dishes like aged grouper with charred lettuce or duck with Carolina rice demonstrate exacting skill, each component calibrated to sing.
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Rank 7. YELLOW
Levantine Middle Eastern
Michael Rafidi's Georgetown café channels Levantine cooking through a wood-burning oven, drawing crowds for pillowy pitas and charred spreads. The batata tots and brown butter cookies disappear fast, which explains why lines form from dawn through lunch.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The Rammys 2025 · Finalist · Fast Casual Restaurant of the Year
- The Rammys 2025 · Finalist · Pastry Chef or Baker of the Year · Alicia Wang
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Rank 8. 1789
French-influenced New American
A Federal townhouse divided into six intimate dining rooms, 1789 channels Georgetown's intellectual past through classical French and American cooking. The kitchen executes with discipline—recent lamb and vichyssoise dishes show confidence without pretense.
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Rank 9. Lutèce
Neo-Bistro French
Matt Conroy's Georgetown bistro wraps diners in pressed tin and exposed brick while a tightly curated menu pivots on seasonal seafood—scallop crudo, delicate cod—with real finesse. Cocktails match the kitchen's precision, and desserts like passion-fruit baba au rhum justify skipping nothing.
- Food & Wine 2023 · Best New Chefs · Isabel Coss
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Rammys 2025 · Finalist · Chef of the Year · Matt Conroy & Isabel Coss
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Rank 10. Chez Billy Sud
Classic French
- Washingtonian 2026 · #80 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
- Washingtonian 2025 · #93 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 14. Kyojin
Sushi
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Rank 15. La Bonne Vache
French
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Rank 16. Fiola Mare
Italian-influenced Seafood
Fiola Mare perches on the Potomac with service as precise as its Italian seafood, where a Capital oyster bathed in prosecco zabaglione justifies the splurge. The terrace view commands premium prices, though lunch offers better value and the same meticulous technique.
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Rank 17. River Club
Lebanese/Italia/Spanish
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Rank 19. Blue Duck Tavern
American
Inside the Park Hyatt, Blue Duck Tavern sprawls across walnut and glass with the unhurried air of a room built for lingering. A wood-burning oven anchors the open kitchen, roasting whole fish and duck legs while the product-driven menu traces its ingredients back to named farms. The effect is upscale comfort—well-tailored, abundant, and entirely at ease with itself.
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Rank 20. The Fountain Inn
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 21. Rasika
Indian
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Ashok Bajaj - Knightsbridge Restaurant Group
- Eater The All-Time Eater 38
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Washington, D.C., Right Now
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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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A wood-paneled room evokes the '70s while the bar operates with laboratory precision: syrups macerate under cryovac, bourbon receives yogurt washing, cacao gets pressure-infused into amontillado. Each shift tastes and adjusts batches to accommodate seasonal variance—strawberries in June behave differently than in October—treating consistency as a living pursuit rather than a fixed formula.
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- 50 Best 2026 · #34 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. East
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Rank 26. Call Your Mother
Jewish American
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- Washingtonian The Soup-and-Fire Combo · 7 Delicious French Onion Soups to Keep You Cozy All Day Long
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Rank 28. Afghania
Afghan Middle Eastern
- Washingtonian 2026 · #92 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
- Washingtonian 2025 · #73 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 29. Das Ethiopian Cuisine
Ethiopian
Inside a Georgetown townhouse softened by jewel tones and draped fabrics, Das moves between tradition and surprise—flaxseed telba wat alongside chicken and beef samplers meant for tearing into with spongy injera. The staff meets the careful design with equal warmth, making even adventurous palates feel welcomed.
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Rank 30. Apéro
French
Apéro unfolds behind sheer curtains like a reverie: midnight-blue walls, gold leaf, a Persian rug underfoot. The owner, a sommelier, has built the place around champagne and caviar at every tier, served with the expected accoutrements and waffle batons, though the kitchen also handles French classics—a lobster bisque with croutons, deviled eggs threaded with bacon and brown sugar—with equal care.
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Rank 31. Amparo Fondita
Contemporary Mexican
Chef Christian Irabién's Mexican kitchen sources Oaxacan corn and nixtamalizes it in-house, elevating humble ingredients with precise technique. A fried plantain or papaya dessert reveals layers of flavor that belie their apparent simplicity.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The Rammys 2025 · Finalist · Upscale Casual Restaurant of the Year
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants Around D.C.
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Rank 32. 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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Rank 33. Xiquet
Spanish
Chef Danny Lledó's wood-fired kitchen channels Valencian cooking with dill-cured bonito and rice dishes built over the hearth, their smoke and char cutting through delicate preparations. The sparse third-floor dining room feels like a private conversation, ending with coffee and sweets upstairs.
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Rank 35. Obelisk
Seasonal Italian
The dining room feels like a neighbor's kitchen, unpretentious despite its fixed five-course ritual since 1987. Antipasti arrive in quick succession—burrata from Lazio, cheese croquettes still steaming—followed by simply rendered seasonal Italian: a dorade with crackling skin and romesco, house-made bread, desserts built in-house. The point is not speed but presence, the full arc of an evening.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Esther Lee
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Washington Post The 40 Best Restaurants In and Around D.C.
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Rank 36. Annabelle
Contemporary New American
A marble bar anchors this Kalorama dining room, where artwork and a skylight-crowned garden conjure elegance without pretense. The seasonal American cooking—from summer beans to mushroom gnocchi to a gianduja ganache that justifies the trip alone—moves with quiet confidence.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Ashok Bajaj - Knightsbridge Restaurant Group
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Washingtonian 2026 · #97 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 37. Call Your Mother
Jewish American
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Rank 40. The Saga
Spanish
A spare, cream-toned room near The Ritz-Carlton where Enrique Limardo channels Spanish fundamentals through Latin American inflections, the tapas and arroz dishes doing most of the talking. The arroz morada—a salt-baked beet purée binding pink rice with roasted vegetables and pine nuts—suggests a kitchen more interested in flavor collisions than restraint.
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Two dining rooms lined with olive trees and Greek pottery transport you to Crete without leaving the capital. The kitchen moves confidently between spanakopita and grilled fish with ladolemono, though it's the crisp Greek fries and baklava with iced yogurt that justify the journey—straightforward pleasures executed with conviction.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Rammys 2025 · Finalist · Favorite Gathering Place of the Year
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Rank 42. RIS
New American
Ris Lacoste's neighborhood restaurant spreads across a light-filled room of earth tones and quiet corners, drawing business dinners and family celebrations with equal ease. Her cooking elevates the familiar—briny linguine with clams, crisp chicken Milanese, crab cakes that never falter—by way of butter, olive oil, and a sure hand with heat and acid.
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Rank 43. Sura
Authentic Thai
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants Around D.C.
- Washingtonian 2026 · #93 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
- Washingtonian 2025 · #71 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 45. Anju
Korean
Brick and greenery frame a comfortable corner of Adams Morgan where Korean drinking food anchors a spirit-forward menu—banchan, mandu, and soju flow in easy rhythm. Chef Danny Lee's mother contributed recipes like dak jjim and dolsot bibimbap, dishes that taste like they've been made a thousand times before and will be again.
- 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
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Angel Barreto
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- Washingtonian Best Coffee Shops in DC
- Time Out The 20 Best Coffee Shops and Cafés in Washington, DC
- Eater The 15 Best Coffee Shops Around D.C.
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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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Rank 55. Chang Chang
Chinese
Peter Chang's Dupont Circle restaurant elevates classical Chinese cooking with precision: walnut prawns glisten with restrained honey mayo, soup dumplings hold superlative broth. The minimalist dining room matches a kitchen unafraid of humble vegetables, each plate deliberate and balanced.
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Rank 56. Kiyomi Sushi
Sushi
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Rank 58. Residents Café & Bar
Contemporary Middle Eastern
A black rowhouse with a plant-filled patio opens onto two levels of mid-century charm—exposed brick, vintage stools, Edison bulbs—where the kitchen moves fluidly between Turkish eggs and smoked carrots with harissa. The desserts and cocktails, inflected with warm spices and rum, suggest a chef thinking beyond geography.
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Rank 59. Fava Pot
Middle Eastern
- Washingtonian 2026 · #87 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
- Washingtonian 2025 · #67 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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- Washingtonian 2026 · #71 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
- Washingtonian 2025 · Scallops a la Plancha · Our Favorite Dishes of the Year in the DC Area
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Rank 61. 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 62. Dolcezza
Italian Dessert
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Rank 66. The Pembroke
French
A Parisian dining room with salmon chairs and marble tables channels European elegance without rigid dogma, moving fluidly between Dover sole and lamb tagine. The kitchen's generalist approach and warm hospitality make this Dupont Circle spot feel less like a temple than a convivial neighborhood table.
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Rank 68. 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 70. Bresca
Contemporary
Bresca sits on 14th Street amid gold leaf and a living moss wall, trading bistro anonymity for a warmth that feels both neighborhood and occasion-worthy. Chef Ryan Ratino's cooking—a foie gras negroni, lamb pappardelle—arrives casual yet artful, with service that knows when to vanish.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Hospitality
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Rank 71. Astoria DC
Sichuan Chinese
A Dupont Circle kitchen that catches the young and restless with funky, locally rooted cooking at prices that feel like a gift—the cumin lamb arrives tender and alive with spice. The bar welcomes walk-ins and solo diners alike, making room for anyone hungry enough to trust the mapo tofu.
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Rank 72. 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 73. 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 74. 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 76. 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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Rank 77. Tabard Inn
Southern French
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- Washingtonian 2026 · #7 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
- Washingtonian 2025 · Cacio e Pepe Bomboloni · Our Favorite Dishes of the Year in the DC Area
- Washingtonian 2025 · #10 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 79. 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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Rank 81. Cana
Brazilian
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best New Bar
- Eater Best Night Out
- Washingtonian 2026 · #26 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 82. Service Bar
Cocktail Bar
Cocktails arrive with technical precision at this U Street bar, where the bartenders treat regulars and tourists with equal warmth. The space itself—worn wood, dim light, no pretense—feels like the living room of someone with genuinely good taste.
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- 50 Best 2026 · #39 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Bar Team
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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 84. Ceibo
Uruguayan
- The Washington Post The 40 Best Restaurants In and Around D.C.
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants Around D.C.
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Rank 86. Tail Up Goat
Caribbean
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Hospitality
- The Rammys 2025 · Finalist · Upscale Casual Restaurant of the Year
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- James Beard Awards 2024 · Winner · Emerging Chef · Masako Morishita
- The Washington Post The 40 Best Restaurants In and Around D.C.
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants Around D.C.
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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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- 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 92. 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
- Washingtonian 2026 · #15 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 93. Mita
Vegetarian Peruvian
In the Shaw neighborhood, Mita serves an all-plant tasting menu that draws from across Latin America with confident creativity: arepas arrive in a basket with guacamole and cashew sour cream, watermelon crudo swims in cucumber leche de tigre. Chefs Tatiana Mora and Miguel Guerra build umami through layered vegetable dishes that feel neither restrained nor novelty-driven, but simply generous.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Best New Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Miguel Guerra and Tatiana Mora
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Rank 94. The Green Zone
Middle Eastern
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Rank 95. 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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Rank 96. Lapis
Afghan Middle Eastern
Whitewashed walls and Afghan rugs create an intimate setting where husband-and-wife owners Zubair and Shamim Popal cook their native cuisine with restraint and finesse. Split pea soup arrives layered with quiet complexity; chopawn—three grilled lamb chops with cardamom rice—demonstrates a kitchen unafraid of subtlety. Afghan food, here, tastes like discovery.
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Rank 97. Lapis Afghan Bistro
Afghan
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Washington, D.C., Right Now
- Time Out #15 · Best restaurants in Washington, D.C.
- Washingtonian 2025 · #23 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 98. Le Diplomate
Parisian French
- The Washington Post The 40 Best Restaurants In and Around D.C.
- Time Out #14 · Best restaurants in Washington, D.C.
- Washingtonian 2026 · #47 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 100. The Bazaar by José Andrés
Avant-Garde Spanish