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Bar Chinois
Cocktail Bar
The martini here comes with pickled shiitake mushrooms, kombu, and bonito flakes, which tells you most of what you need to know about Bar Chinois. It's a French wine bar by aesthetic and an Asian dim sum spot by appetite, and the kitchen takes both halves seriously. The cocktails are genuinely theatrical, and the dumplings, shrimp toast, and braised pork meatball give you every reason to stay past the second round.
The awards strongest first
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater The Best Cocktail Bars in D.C.
One number, weighted & current 69
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Calvados daiquiri
“Popular cocktails include a Calvados daiquiri and the “Big Pink” with tequila, créme de cassis currant liqueur, and Q grapefruit soda and a Calvados daiquiri with lime and simple syrup.”
Eater -
Big Pink
“Popular cocktails include a Calvados daiquiri and the “Big Pink” with tequila, créme de cassis currant liqueur, and Q grapefruit soda and a Calvados daiquiri with lime and simple syrup.”
Eater -
Ginger chicken dumplings
“Imagine half moon-shaped ginger chicken dumplings with a honey dip; shrimp toast batter-fried with sesame seeds; or Beijing pork dumplings with Berkshire pork and Chinese chives.”
Michelin Guide -
Lion's Head meatball
“The "Lion's Head meatball," starring oven-braised pork au jus, water chestnuts, and Shaoxing rice wine, is as regal as its title, and bears an almost apocryphal lightness.”
Michelin Guide
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