The Top 84 Cocktail Bars Near Ingle Korean Steakhouse
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Rank 2. The Old Brogue
Irish
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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 5. 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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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 9. 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 10. 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. Cocktail Bar
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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 12. 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 13. The Fountain Inn
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 14. Aventino
Roman Italian
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants Around D.C.
- Washingtonian 2026 · #60 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
- Washingtonian 2025 · #50 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 16. 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 17. Providencia
Cocktail Bar
A moody cocktail bar that conceals serious culinary ambition: Erik Bruner-Yang and Paola Velez stitch together Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American traditions into dishes like pupusas with salsa verde and crab pan de playa crowned with tomato gochujang mayo, each plate improbable and purposeful in its construction.
- Bon Appétit 2025 · America's Best New Bars
- Punch 2025 · Ni de Aqui Ni de Alla · Our Favorite Cocktails
- Eater Bar of the Year
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Rank 18. La' Shukran
Levantine Middle Eastern
A hidden Levantine bistro reached by climbing stairs behind a green door, where retro funk and inventive cocktails frame impeccably executed sharing plates. The soujek dumplings—lamb and beef in smoked corn broth with urfa chili—justify the reservation difficulty alone.
- The New York Times 2025 · The Restaurant List
- The New York Times 2025 · Falafel Jibneh · The Best Restaurant Dishes We Ate Across the U.S.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 19. 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 20. Bar del Monte
Italian
- Bon Appétit 2024 · America's Best New Restaurants
- The Washington Post The 40 Best Restaurants In and Around D.C.
- Washingtonian 2026 · #51 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 21. ROYAL DC
Latin American
An airy corner spot where Latin American cooking stays unfussy and welcoming. The breakfast arepa—fried egg, tomato, cotija, and avocado sealed in seared masa—arrives wrapped like a gift; at dinner, the upstairs room fills with regulars chasing tender pork empanadas and masa gnocchi studded with braised beef and mushrooms. The prices match the unpretentious spirit.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- 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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Rank 22. Café du Parc
French
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Rank 24. 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 25. The Green Zone
Middle Eastern
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Rank 26. 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 28. 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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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. East
- Bon Appétit 2018 · America's Best New Restaurants
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. East
- Eater Best New Bar · The 2025 Eater DC Award Winners
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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 35. River Club
Lebanese/Italia/Spanish
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Rank 36. 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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- 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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- 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 41. New Heights
New American
A muted dining room in Woodley Park where quiet competence and restless ambition meet on the plate: broccolini with black garlic, crispy oysters with pickled cauliflower, tempura mushrooms dusted in Moroccan spice. The kitchen strikes a balance between familiar comfort and subtle surprise that most restaurants spend years chasing.
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Rank 43. 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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Rank 48. Toki Underground
Noodles
Climb the stairs past The Pug Bar into a cramped room of raw wood and dangling lights, where the ramen program moves through five freshly made broths with remarkable depth. Fried enoki mushrooms and pork dumplings set the pace; the yuzu custard closes it with grace. Reservations only, one hour to eat.
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Rank 49. 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 50. Chaplin's
Noodles
In Shaw, Myo Htun's restaurant trades in conversation-stopping cocktails and ramen that justifies the hype—his hot broth arrives with silken chicken while the cold version snaps with ginger and cucumber. Gyoza and chocolate lava cake round out a menu built on personal technique and genuine pleasure.
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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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- Esquire 2023 · Medina's Martini Service · The Best Martinis in America
- The Rammys 2025 · Finalist · Cocktail Program of the Year
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Rank 65. Pop FizzBar
Wine Bar
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Rank 66. Bammy's
Modern Caribbean
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- Wine Enthusiast 2023 · Forward 50 Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Jarad Slipp
- Washingtonian 2026 · #55 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 69. The Wren
Irish American
- Bon Appétit 2025 · America's Best New Restaurants
- The New York Times 2025 · The Restaurant List
- Baltimore Magazine 2025 · Best Bars
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- Bon Appétit 2024 · America's Best New Bars
- Baltimore Beat 2024 · Best Place to Take Your Sneaky Link · Best of Baltimore
- Baltimore Magazine 2025 · Cacktail: Flamboyán · Best of Baltimore
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- Baltimore Beat 2023 · Best Restaurant That Feels Like Home · Best of Baltimore
- Time Out The best restaurants in Baltimore right now
- Baltimore Beat Burger: Kofta Burger · Our Favorite Dishes
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- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Professional in Cocktail Service · Doug Atwell
- Baltimore Magazine 2023 · New Bar · Best of Baltimore
- Baltimore Magazine 2025 · Best Bars
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- Baltimore Beat Crab Cakes · Our Favorite Dishes
- Baltimore Beat Baltimore's Best Cheap Eats
- Eater Baltimore’s 38 Essential Restaurants
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- Esquire 2023 · The Best Bars in America
- Baltimore Magazine 2023 · Ambiance · Best of Baltimore
- Baltimore Magazine 2024 · Best Restaurants
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- Esquire 2023 · The Best Bars in America
- Baltimore Beat 2023 · Most Instagrammable Bar · Best of Baltimore
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