Most overrated restaurant you've eaten at recently

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Anonymous wrote:Very few restaurants, outside of ethnic foods I simply cannot cook, impress me. Most everything is over salted and over greased. I no longer waste my money on expensive restaurants and instead search for hole in the wall places, typically ethnic.

This. After six years in DC I am coming to this realization. Mind-blowing ethnic food from all over the planet and a bunch of pretentious and mediocre "fancy" places.

This. Ethnic restaurants a 10. All the latest trendy restaurants a 2.

True. And just cheap food in general. I mean, there's a case to be made for the perfectly composed Shake Shake burger fresh off the grill.

+1 The meals that have truly knocked my socks off are the small family run restaurants. $20 or less per person and some of the best meals I've ever eaten. Definitely blow the boujee restaurants that get hyped up so much right out of the water.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a tie between Marcel's and Blue Duck Tavern. So much meh.

blue duck was underwhelming for me too. Will not be back.

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Hated Restaurant Eve in Old Town... slowest and most underwhelming meal I've had for that kind of $$$.

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Anonymous wrote:Zaytinya, hands down.

Bland (except for overly salty falafel), non-authentic and really just underwhelming. Mediocre ambiance and service.

OMG yes. My husband is always recommending it to visitors because he can walk there for lunch. I always glare at him and mouth “stop. Just stop.” It’s only good if you are visiting from Ohio and think it’s exotic.

Omg. The Cleveland food scene blows DC's out of the water.

HA! And Cincy had 2 five star restaurants over 30 years ago. DC has the worst food in the nation!

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Was going to say Del Campo ...what a rip-off. But see that others agreed because the restaurant closed.

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Anonymous wrote:Zaytinya, hands down.

Bland (except for overly salty falafel), non-authentic and really just underwhelming. Mediocre ambiance and service.

OMG yes. My husband is always recommending it to visitors because he can walk there for lunch. I always glare at him and mouth “stop. Just stop.” It’s only good if you are visiting from Ohio and think it’s exotic.

Omg. The Cleveland food scene blows DC's out of the water.

HA! And Cincy had 2 five star restaurants over 30 years ago. DC has the worst food in the nation!

+1. But it has made me a better cook since we don’t go out anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Zaytinya, hands down.

Bland (except for overly salty falafel), non-authentic and really just underwhelming. Mediocre ambiance and service.

OMG yes. My husband is always recommending it to visitors because he can walk there for lunch. I always glare at him and mouth “stop. Just stop.” It’s only good if you are visiting from Ohio and think it’s exotic.

Omg. The Cleveland food scene blows DC's out of the water.

I agree! I don’t even bothering going out here any more.

My hometown of Milwaukee blows the DC restaurant scene out of the water too. I dream about dishes and restaurants there. We don’t even go out here anymore either. Overpriced, bland, and disappointing. And why no restaurateur in this area can’t put together a decent sandwich or bake an edible loaf of bread has always baffled me. Plus, no good diners, Italian, Mexican, delis, bakeries, funky coffee shops and bars that serve great food. Ahh, I am homesick.

Milwaukee? Cleveland? Why don’t we throw in Pittsburgh also since people rave about the food scene there too. I travel to all three frequently and there is nothing in any of them that would cause me to rave about any of them.

Seems like you haven’t ventured out much when visiting those places. I can give you multiple recommendations in Milwaukee that blow most DC restaurants out of the water. There is great food outside of DC. In fact, that’s where most of it is.

+1000. We spent last summer vacation in upper lower Michigan, and almost every podunk restaurant was better than DC.

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Whoever thinks the DC area has good restaurants hasn't travelled at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Drove out far as eff to eat at this restaurant in Ashburn called DC Prime. It's a steakhouse.

Overpriced, terrible service, oh and I got blood diarrhea a hour after eating there, so I'm guessing there's something wrong with the food handling there. The place was half empty too on a Saturday night so I don't understand why the service was so bad. Has such good reviews...I don't get why.

Please add to this list!

If they call themselves DC-Anything out in LOUDOUN, then that tells you all you need to know.

Not really "recent" and not overrated since all the restaurants stand empty, but if you ever find yourself in Leesburg (Lord help you), avoid pretty much all of King Street. Restaurants owned by the same dude for 45+ years, with little change since then.

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Momofuku DC. food was ok but insanely overpriced for what it was. $18 for 5 dumplings that could have been found in the frozen food section of an Asian market.

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Anonymous wrote:Zaytinya, hands down.

Bland (except for overly salty falafel), non-authentic and really just underwhelming. Mediocre ambiance and service.

OMG yes. My husband is always recommending it to visitors because he can walk there for lunch. I always glare at him and mouth “stop. Just stop.” It’s only good if you are visiting from Ohio and think it’s exotic.

Omg. The Cleveland food scene blows DC's out of the water.

I agree! I don’t even bothering going out here any more.

My hometown of Milwaukee blows the DC restaurant scene out of the water too. I dream about dishes and restaurants there. We don’t even go out here anymore either. Overpriced, bland, and disappointing. And why no restaurateur in this area can’t put together a decent sandwich or bake an edible loaf of bread has always baffled me. Plus, no good diners, Italian, Mexican, delis, bakeries, funky coffee shops and bars that serve great food. Ahh, I am homesick.

Milwaukee? Cleveland? Why don’t we throw in Pittsburgh also since people rave about the food scene there too. I travel to all three frequently and there is nothing in any of them that would cause me to rave about any of them.

Seems like you haven’t ventured out much when visiting those places. I can give you multiple recommendations in Milwaukee that blow most DC restaurants out of the water. There is great food outside of DC. In fact, that’s where most of it is.

+1000. We spent last summer vacation in upper lower Michigan, and almost every podunk restaurant was better than DC.

Unless you’re talking about Middle Eastern food in the Detroit burbs, this is simply not true. Having lived in Michigan, the food is blah. My husband and I even used to call it “Michigan good.”

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Anonymous wrote:Most of DC is like this - 2-star flavor at 4-star prices.

+1,000

It's not "new" new, but Momofuku also sucks.

+1 every time a try a “hyped” restaurant in DC I’m reminded of that phrase “a sucker is born every minute.” People will argue with me but fine dinning-wise you get much much much more bang for your buck in NYC.

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I have a theory about DC restaurants:

I think when they first open they are usually legit good. But then after that they quickly go downhill. But everyone still goes based on the hype and nobody will complain about it because "everyone else thinks it's good". And so it goes.

Honestly, I can count on one hand how many truly amazing meals I have had here.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a theory about DC restaurants:

I think when they first open they are usually legit good. But then after that they quickly go downhill. But everyone still goes based on the hype and nobody will complain about it because "everyone else thinks it's good". And so it goes.

Honestly, I can count on one hand how many truly amazing meals I have had here.

+1

Nailed it.

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Anonymous wrote:Whoever thinks the DC area has good restaurants hasn't travelled at all.

+1

This.