What’s your favorite restaurant to recommend to a visitor?

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Anonymous wrote:If you're willing to go out of DC, L'Auberge Chez François in Great Falls and The Inn at Little Washington are both well regarded, and have endured.

That is out of DC all right. Way out.

It's pretty out of the way for everyone, but there aren't a lot of Michelin starred restaurants in the area.

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I find rasika just incredibly salty.

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Anonymous wrote:Funny how most of these recs could’ve been made in 2010. Surprised there aren’t newer venues in the mix.

There are. DCUM just leans older (and many don’t live in the city anymore).

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Anonymous wrote:If you're willing to go out of DC, L'Auberge Chez François in Great Falls and The Inn at Little Washington are both well regarded, and have endured.

That is out of DC all right. Way out.

It's pretty out of the way for everyone, but there aren't a lot of Michelin starred restaurants in the area.

What?? There are about 25 Michelin-starred restaurants in DC proper.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree with Rasika and 2Amys. Any Peruvian Chicken joint (pollo a la brasa) if they don’t have that where they’re from. On the warf for something casual, the Gordon Ramsey fish and chips place or the tiki bar before a show at The Anthem. Many of Jose Andres’ places already mentioned.

2 Amy’s serves burnt pizza.

I used google for you:
“Traditional Neapolitan pizza has charring on both the edges and bottom. The pizza is baked in a wood-burning oven at 900 degrees and cooks within minutes. Charring is a result of the high heat from baking the dough directly on the oven and the heat coming down from the oven ceiling.”

Their pizza is not good. They really mess up if they are going for Neapolitan pizza. It is a mess.

Never been to 2 Amys

Why is it "a mess"?

I'm on the other side of DC so haven't been there either. For Neapolitan pizza I typically recommend Menomale in NoMa or Brookland.

Agree with recommending Ethiopian for out of town guests. Some of my guests from the North or West also never had BBQ so sometimes will try DC Smokehouse.

And for foodies they often enjoy trying the Jose Andres restaurants.

I'll have to look into Menomale.

Never eaten pizza at 2Amy, but I now know better what to expect. It does sound closer to "traditional" if it is like what is being described. A "mess" and "raw" in the middle sound like what you're served in Naples.

FYI Menomale was tweeting flowery praise to trump after the election and the neighborhood wasn't thrilled with that. They did not at all back down. I definitely won't be supporting them moving forward.

Oof, had to look that one up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/11/08/menomale-pizza-brookland-trump/
That sounds like a very bad attempt to read the room, not exactly flowery praise.

I still like their pizza and will admit that your comment made me think twice about going back. But it doesn't make sense to cancel a small mom and pop immigrant business making good food if people are still using Amazon Prime.

Also cancelled Amazon Prime. (Which has certainly made xmas shopping more challenging, but we have to start being intentional about where we spend our money)

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We need more H Street rep on this list. Daru (chefs from Rasika) is excellent. Stable does raclette this time of year. And Copy Cat has the best cocktails in DC!

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Resy just shared this list ..

https://blog.resy.com/2024/12/dc-restaurants-2024/?utm_campaign=DC-Best-of-Hit-List-Dec-24&utm_medium=email&utm_source=simon