DC area Restaurants with consistently great food that aren't super expensive

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Anonymous wrote:Another vote for Chipotle and Cava.

Can't stand Chipotle's spices, I don't consider it a restaurant.

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This thread underscores how absolutely awful the restaurants are in this area.

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Hanks in Dupont is a go to for us and always terrific. Love it.

In Bethesda I actually have been pretty happy with Lebanese Taverna.

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I agree with the PP who said OP's expectations are too high for this price point.

For $50, I'd rather go to Outback then most of the mediocre, overpriced places in Bethesda (Redwood, I'm looking at you).

IMO when dining out you need to go cheap or expensive. Middle of the road almost always disappoints.

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We really like Silver Diner, its not to far up the pike from Bethesda. Have you tried Pacci's Trattoria?

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Anonymous wrote:We really like Silver Diner, its not to far up the pike from Bethesda. Have you tried Pacci's
Trattoria?

Silver Diner up the Pike is great for families. The food is delicious. Get the salmon slider appetizers. The menu has a calorie count for each item. Lunch for a family of 4 is @ $50. (that's with a delicious milkshake, appetizer and entree for everyone)

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Maggiano's is fine to have a family meal that I didn't have to cook. It's corporate owned, industrial food served in a delightful setting (Sinatra and Louis Prima on rotation in the background).

The person upthread saying this is why DC restaurants are bad: stfu. OP asked for inexpensive family restaurants. DC is on par with Chicago, Miami and even LA for restaurant quality when it comes to the mid range. Its best restaurants begin to nip the heels of New York and Paris--I've eaten at Taillevent and La Cirque more than once--and many places in between all over the world. Get over yourself; we're talking reasonably priced, serviceable family eating here.

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Hard.times
District Taco
Tippy taco

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Anonymous wrote:Cactus Cantina

Love cactus cantina!

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with the PP who said OP's expectations are too high for this price point.

For $50, I'd rather go to Outback then most of the mediocre, overpriced places in Bethesda (Redwood, I'm looking at you).

IMO when dining out you need to go cheap or expensive. Middle of the road almost always disappoints.

Agree. But, to use the faux boho of Bethesda is a bad example. Virtually every restaurant in downtown Bethesda is laughably over priced and the food tastes as though it was prepared by ex cons trained in a work release program: fried, lumpen, bland offerings. SWEET GREENS? REALLY? More like EXTRUDED YARD WASTE.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cactus Cantina

Love cactus cantina!

SSSSHHHHHH don't tell them now they'll all come and there's barely anywhere to park as it is. I want to watch my soccer and drink my mojito in relative peace. Virginians stay away; we have blacks/jews/democrats guarding the entrances.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread underscores how absolutely awful the restaurants are in this area.

stfu

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I know places. I'm not telling all the suburbanites on this thread so they can fire up their pie wagons and drive over bridges and highways to clog our streets to come to our places. Let them go to Alexandria. That's a thing, right? They have food.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cactus Cantina

Love cactus cantina!

SSSSHHHHHH don't tell them now they'll all come and there's barely anywhere to park as it is. I want to watch my soccer and drink my mojito in relative peace. Virginians stay away; we have blacks/jews/democrats guarding the entrances.

What a truly obnoxious comment, and totally out of place on a thread about restaurants. I hope you're not this big an asshole in real life.

--AA Virginian.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sad list!!

Chipotle, really?

I'd say Amsterdam Falafel, Bullfrog Bagels, and I can't think of anything else. DC restaurants are over priced for what they are.

Amsterdam Falafel is good if you're 23 years old and drunk.

Aren't we all? It is just one of the very few DC places I can think of that are tasty and appropriately priced.