1. Anafre DC
Washington, DC 20010
Alfredo Solis, the restaurateur and chef behind El Sol and Mezcalero, has changed short-lived Cuban restaurant Little Havana with a brand new one which focuses on Mexican seafood specialities alongside the Pacific and Gulf coasts. That features a Sinaloan-style vuelve a la vida ceviche with crab, oyster, and octopus in a spicy seafood sauce; fried oyster tacos; and a fried, grilled Puerto Nuevo-style lobster served with jalapeno butter. A hardwood charcoal grill pays homage to the agricultural cooking of Solis’s mom, slow-cooking entire chickens and gifting a smoky taste to revived tortillas.
Reveler’s Hour
DC 20009, United States
The house owners of Tail Up Goat will proceed to champion sustainable sourcing and thoughtful service at this sibling pasta place and wine bar in Adams Morgan. The opening menu consists of seven sorts of pasta, spanning from twists of casarecce with sea island crimson peas and collard greens to concave capunti with beef ragu and grilled carrots. A wood-burning grill lends smoke to sure bar snacks and small plates, and there are greater than 50 wines by the glass.
The Imperial
Washington, DC 20009
This three-level complicated from the house owners of the Jack Rose whiskey bar lastly opened on Adams Morgan’s Southern border after practically 5 years of building and regulatory complications. The Imperial goals to attract in prospects with greater than “cobblered” cocktails and classic spirits. A meals menu giving off whiffs of Continental nostalgia options an epic seafood tower, sorghum risotto with black truffles, anchovy-bread crumb bucatini, beef Wellington, and a large-format, koji-aged sirloin cap.
4. Emmy Squared
Washington, DC 20001
The fashionable Detroit-style pizza chain from Brooklyn has ambitions to overcome the East Coast, however each one among its eating places features a few location-specific issues. Its first D.C. store, in Shaw, opened within the former Kyirisan area with a riff on mumbo sauce that finds its method onto wings and fried rooster pizzas. Crunchy-edged squares of Colony pizza (pepperoni, pickled jalapeno, honey) and grass-fed beef cheeseburgers on pretzel buns are two of the model’s normal bearers. Bottomless brunch drinks and late-night meals — obtainable till 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday — are new options.
5. Annabelle
Washington, DC 20008
Restaurateur Ashok Bajaj went by months of building delays to push this bold, up to date American undertaking to the end line. The historic Kalorama constructing that housed Restaurant Nora for 40 years is now a trendy, art-filled stage for chef Frank Ruta’s comeback. Ruta, the previous White Home chef who opened Mirabelle and rose to prominence at Palena, is bringing classical cooking requirements to salads, pastas, and meats aged in a newly constructed cellar. Ruta has a separate bar menu with a Reuben-esque burger and plans so as to add a vegetarian tasting menu.
6. Peruvian Brothers at La Cosecha Latin Market
Washington, DC 20002
Meals truck execs Giuseppe and Mario Lanzone have made a couple of key additions to their menu of Peruvian sandwiches, baked empanadas, and alfajores at their first brick-and-mortar location, contained in the all-Latin American La Cosecha market. There’s now fried yuca, a frozen drink machine that dispenses pisco bitter slushies, and an electrical rotisserie stuffed with chickens marinated in smoky panca chile paste, cumin, soy sauce, and lemon.
7. Som Tam
Washington, DC 20002
Fortunate Buns chef Alex McCoy has an Isaan place once more with Som Tam, a Northern Thai stall inside Union Market that opened in January. A chalkboard menu packs in a cross-section of tremendous spicy dishes like pounded salads stuffed with inexperienced papaya, fish sauce, lime, chiles, and delicacies like sea snails and salted crab. There are additionally khao soi bowls made with egg noodles. Thai natives Lekki Limvatana and Satang Ruangsangwanata oversee the tiny, lantern-lined setup, which plans to finally host five-seat tasting dinners.
8. Nina Might
Washington, DC 20001
Colin McClimans and Danilo Simic, a respective chef and bar boss who first met whereas working at sustainable fine-dining establishment Equinox, are taking up possession roles whereas transferring into this Logan Circle area the place earlier restaurant tenants have struggled to determine a foothold. Nina Might is trying to supply all its produce from inside a 150-mile radius of the restaurant, and McClimans is providing a $39 “chef’s alternative” meal through which he picks the dishes and prospects can order till they’re full. The opening wave of dishes included recent marrow beans braised in Parmesan broth and Virginia bison tartare.
9. TRUNO
Washington, DC 20036
Chef Dwayne Motley goals to deliver Scott Circle diners something however “calamari and membership sandwiches” at this renovated 85-seat restaurant tucked contained in the Cover by Hilton Embassy Row. The worldwide menu at Truno represents the fruits of his 20-year cooking profession, bringing on flavors from Mexico, Syria, West and East Africa, and the Chesapeake Bay. The funky, graffiti-lined substitute to Nage Bistro serves Nigerian beef skewers, South Carolina grits, and Yemeni-influenced flatbreads that come out of a brand new, wood-fired oven. Drinks are designed by a associate at pioneering NYC cocktail bar Demise and Co.
10. The Pursuit Wine Bar & Kitchen
Washington, DC 20002
The not too long ago relocated wine bar on H Avenue fills a much bigger, brighter area with new cocktails, extra recent pastas, and European small plates. A contemporary tackle grandma’s meatballs comes chilly, served alongside tangy pepperoncini French dressing slaw. Different go-to orders embrace creamy butternut squash soup, fettuccine bolognese, and acquainted favorites like BLT pasta and “Little Salty Candy” panini on Challah. Flights ($18-$23) are themed round French, West Coast, and Spanish pours. Each label could be ordered by the glass. Flooring-to-ceiling home windows make for prime individuals watching.
11. Café Riggs
Washington, DC 20004
Chef Patrick Curran, an Eater Younger Gun (’16) and Momofuku alum who most not too long ago led the kitchen at resort pasta spot Casolare, seemed to coastal kitchens throughout Europe whereas creating a contemporary brasserie menu peppered with vegan dishes. A colourful, cavernous eating room retains Corinthian columns and flooring that date again to 1891, however the historic bank-turned- resort isn’t making an attempt to be stuffy. There’s a breakfast menu with all kinds of wellness drinks, bowls, and pastries (go for the not-too-sweet cardamom bun). The all-day lineup that follows consists of uncooked bar splurges, a stunty $98 grilled cheese sandwich with a full ounce of Russian Osetra caviar, and cozier requirements like a brief rib burger with onions caramelized in applejack and dinner omelets with chevre-like Vache cheese.
12. Buffalo & Bergen
Washington, DC 20002
Seven years after opening a soda counter stuffed with New York deli staples (bagels, knishes, pastrami) in Union Market, longtime D.C. bar professional Gina Chersevani now has a standalone home for Buffalo & Bergen. The placement close to Union Station provides new bagel sandwiches to the combination — there’s a “Hasidic Tiger Mother” with roast beef and a rainbow cabbage slaw wearing horseradish-filled tiger sauce — and goals to make latkes every single day. The small room coated in black and white tiles can be a spot to sip cocktails alongside bar bites and pattern rotating dinner specials.
13. Mekki DC
Washington, DC 20003
Mekki Karrakchou, the Moroccan-born entrepreneur behind Italian favourite Flavio in Georgetown, now serves natural and halal recipes from his mom in Barracks Row. Relocated from Greenwich Village in NYC, Mekki DC gives small plates like zaalouk, a braised eggplant salad, and kefta (Moroccan meatballs with tomato sauce and egg). A full of life weekend brunch consists of sangria and honey butter-slathered baghrir pancakes. The slender setup is lined with crimson fez hats and loads of bottles of La Ferme Rouge — a long-running Moroccan winery owned by Karrakchou’s household. Don’t skip the hit “Moroccan dessert nachos” — a serving to of puffed filo, crème Anglaise, roasted pistachio, and powdered sugar.
14. ABC Pony
Washington, DC 20003
Cooks Paolo Dungca (previously of Kaliwa and Dangerous Saint) and Chris Yates (Ellē) have joined forces to execute Erik Bruner-Yang’s imaginative and prescient of a neighborhood Italian joint that borrows elements from the Asian-owned nook retailer throughout the road. Mash-ups on the opening menu embrace a Roman egg-drop soup with cheese-flavored broth, Filipino lumpia stuffed with melting burrata and fennel-spiked meatballs, and spaghetti that’s tossed with XO sauce and coated in bread crumbs. Pastas are all below $20, cocktails are $10, and there’s a classic Coca-Cola machine that dispenses spiked soda syrups to make arduous seltzer.
15. Maialino Mare
Washington, DC 20003
Danny Meyer’s heralded Union Sq. Hospitality Group not too long ago planted its first full-service restaurant exterior of NYC within the new Thompson resort in Navy Yard. Chef Rose Noel steers the Roman-style trattoria towards seafood with easy dishes like a butter-lemon fettuccine swimming with Argentine crimson shrimp, a skate wing Milanese, or a salt-baked branzino for 2. For people who need to keep anchored on turf, there’s a crispy suckling pig face served on greens or dry-aged steak. For a pre- or post-dinner cocktail, head to Anchovy Social on the roof.
