Recommendations for date night restaurant in DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I hear you. I have a wife and four kids to be responsible for - I'm not taking the risk of going to dangerous parts of DC no matter how many Karens try to shame me for it. Personally, I think most of the best restaurants in DC are downtown. I'm not a huge Italian lover but if I had to pick, Modena or Sfoglina.

Yikes, keep your misogyny to yourselves. So gross. Have you considered McLean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I hear you. I have a wife and four kids to be responsible for - I'm not taking the risk of going to dangerous parts of DC no matter how many Karens try to shame me for it. Personally, I think most of the best restaurants in DC are downtown. I'm not a huge Italian lover but if I had to pick, Modena or Sfoglina.

How would you know that the best restaurants are downtown if you've never ventured to the "dangerous" parts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I hear you. I have a wife and four kids to be responsible for - I'm not taking the risk of going to dangerous parts of DC no matter how many Karens try to shame me for it. Personally, I think most of the best restaurants in DC are downtown. I'm not a huge Italian lover but if I had to pick, Modena or Sfoglina.

How would you know that the best restaurants are downtown if you've never ventured to the "dangerous" parts?

I do love all these posters asking for Italian, but rejecting the neighborhood with the Michelin-starred Italian restaurant 🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I hear you. I have a wife and four kids to be responsible for - I'm not taking the risk of going to dangerous parts of DC no matter how many Karens try to shame me for it. Personally, I think most of the best restaurants in DC are downtown. I'm not a huge Italian lover but if I had to pick, Modena or Sfoglina.

How would you know that the best restaurants are downtown if you've never ventured to the "dangerous" parts?

I do love all these posters asking for Italian, but rejecting the neighborhood with the Michelin-starred Italian restaurant 🙄

Same! Love the suburbanites asking for recs + then rejecting/insulting every idea offered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I hear you. I have a wife and four kids to be responsible for - I'm not taking the risk of going to dangerous parts of DC no matter how many Karens try to shame me for it. Personally, I think most of the best restaurants in DC are downtown. I'm not a huge Italian lover but if I had to pick, Modena or Sfoglina.

How would you know that the best restaurants are downtown if you've never ventured to the "dangerous" parts?

I do love all these posters asking for Italian, but rejecting the neighborhood with the Michelin-starred Italian restaurant 🙄

Same! Love the suburbanites asking for recs + then rejecting/insulting every idea offered.

OP rejected one idea!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Haha you guys are ridiculous about Union Market, but your loss.

I'm the PP who said I understand OP. I don't know anything about Union Market - there's nothing drawing me over there so I have no reason to visit. St. Anselm doesn't sound good to me at all. My point was you should respect when people don't want to go to a certain part of town. Shaming people for not wanting to take a certain level of risk is ridiculous. Just because you're happy with a 1 in 1,000 chance of being shot doesn't mean everybody else needs to be.

You understand that there are a lot of restaurants in that area now right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP - I would recommend the Dabney for a date night out. That location isn't too hard from VA. Otherwise Chez Billy Sud in Georgetown. I have heard great things about St. Anselm so would be willing to go a little further to check it out. It's new and why not if you don't get out that much? Have fun!

OP here - thank you! Exactly the type of recommendation I was looking for.

Are you driving? Because St Anslem is a much better choice then. Also I love the Dabney, but you asked a specific question
and PP was so right to recommend S.A. over Dabney for it. Honestly though, please just stay in Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP - I would recommend the Dabney for a date night out. That location isn't too hard from VA. Otherwise Chez Billy Sud in Georgetown. I have heard great things about St. Anselm so would be willing to go a little further to check it out. It's new and why not if you don't get out that much? Have fun!

OP here - thank you! Exactly the type of recommendation I was looking for.

Are you driving? Because St Anslem is a much better choice then. Also I love the Dabney, but you asked a specific question
and PP was so right to recommend S.A. over Dabney for it. Honestly though, please just stay in Virginia.

We would like t Uber/Lyft so we don’t have to worry about drinking, parking,etc. I didn’t respond to the PP recommending St. Anselm over Dabney, nor have I ruled I either out. Stop telling me to stay in VA!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP - I would recommend the Dabney for a date night out. That location isn't too hard from VA. Otherwise Chez Billy Sud in Georgetown. I have heard great things about St. Anselm so would be willing to go a little further to check it out. It's new and why not if you don't get out that much? Have fun!

OP here - thank you! Exactly the type of recommendation I was looking for.

Are you driving? Because St Anslem is a much better choice then. Also I love the Dabney, but you asked a specific question
and PP was so right to recommend S.A. over Dabney for it. Honestly though, please just stay in Virginia.

We would like t Uber/Lyft so we don’t have to worry about drinking, parking,etc. I didn’t respond to the PP recommending St. Anselm over Dabney, nor have I ruled I either out. Stop telling me to stay in VA!

Where in VA are you coming from?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP - I would recommend the Dabney for a date night out. That location isn't too hard from VA. Otherwise Chez Billy Sud in Georgetown. I have heard great things about St. Anselm so would be willing to go a little further to check it out. It's new and why not if you don't get out that much? Have fun!

OP here - thank you! Exactly the type of recommendation I was looking for.

Are you driving? Because St Anslem is a much better choice then. Also I love the Dabney, but you asked a specific question
and PP was so right to recommend S.A. over Dabney for it. Honestly though, please just stay in Virginia.

We would like t Uber/Lyft so we don’t have to worry about drinking, parking,etc. I didn’t respond to the PP recommending St. Anselm over Dabney, nor have I ruled I either out. Stop telling me to stay in VA!

Where in VA are you coming from?

Falls Church

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Haha you guys are ridiculous about Union Market, but your loss.

I'm the PP who said I understand OP. I don't know anything about Union Market - there's nothing drawing me over there so I have no reason to visit. St. Anselm doesn't sound good to me at all. My point was you should respect when people don't want to go to a certain part of town. Shaming people for not wanting to take a certain level of risk is ridiculous. Just because you're happy with a 1 in 1,000 chance of being shot doesn't mean everybody else needs to be.

You understand that there are a lot of restaurants in that area now right?

And what

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Haha you guys are ridiculous about Union Market, but your loss.

I'm the PP who said I understand OP. I don't know anything about Union Market - there's nothing drawing me over there so I have no reason to visit. St. Anselm doesn't sound good to me at all. My point was you should respect when people don't want to go to a certain part of town. Shaming people for not wanting to take a certain level of risk is ridiculous. Just because you're happy with a 1 in 1,000 chance of being shot doesn't mean everybody else needs to be.

Union Market, 1 in 1,000 chance of being shot 😂😂😂 Y’all crack me up. Oh well, guess that means easier reservations at Masseria, St. Anselm, and Stellina, shorter lines at Pluma and Annare, better chance of nabbing a seat at Cotton + Reed, Suburbia, or Hi-Lawn. 1 in 1,000. I’m dying (of laughter, not gunshots, which I never ever heard at Union Market of all places).

You’re trying way too hard here. Calm down. We’ll all go to the Hill if we feel like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Haha you guys are ridiculous about Union Market, but your loss.

I'm the PP who said I understand OP. I don't know anything about Union Market - there's nothing drawing me over there so I have no reason to visit. St. Anselm doesn't sound good to me at all. My point was you should respect when people don't want to go to a certain part of town. Shaming people for not wanting to take a certain level of risk is ridiculous. Just because you're happy with a 1 in 1,000 chance of being shot doesn't mean everybody else needs to be.

You understand that there are a lot of restaurants in that area now right?

And what

So it’s not like you’re walking into a gang-filled wasteland.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP - I would recommend the Dabney for a date night out. That location isn't too hard from VA. Otherwise Chez Billy Sud in Georgetown. I have heard great things about St. Anselm so would be willing to go a little further to check it out. It's new and why not if you don't get out that much? Have fun!

OP here - thank you! Exactly the type of recommendation I was looking for.

Are you driving? Because St Anslem is a much better choice then. Also I love the Dabney, but you asked a specific question
and PP was so right to recommend S.A. over Dabney for it. Honestly though, please just stay in Virginia.

We would like t Uber/Lyft so we don’t have to worry about drinking, parking,etc. I didn’t respond to the PP recommending St. Anselm over Dabney, nor have I ruled I either out. Stop telling me to stay in VA!

Where in VA are you coming from?

Falls Church

Go to the Wharf or Georgetown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Go to the Wharf or Georgetown

I scoffed when I read this but after reading OP's posts, I've now concluded this is probably best. They are close to NoVa, aren't in the "tough" areas and are touristy. Sounds like it's what OP is looking for although good restaurants are REALLY hard to come by in those areas.

Stick with the mainstays - Rasika, Centrolina, etc.

My favs include: 7 reasons, rooster and Owl, and of course, Kinship.