Originally Posted by
mhnadel
There are a number of good restaurants in the area, actually, especially if you are willing to walk 10 minutes up Connecticut towards Cleveland Park. Some of the better options include Ardeo+Bardeo, Dino, Indique, Lavandou, and Palena.
Seeing as how the dining scene around Dupont Circle has deteriorated in the past few years and the two areas are a metro stop away, I wouldn't use food as the discriminator.
Yes, Cleveland Park is a good food destination, significantly better than Woodley Park. The immediate Dupont Circle area is actually not that good, surprisingly. A few good places, but a lot of mediocrity IMHO. In terms of neighhborhoods, I end up in the Penn Quarter/Gallery Place area as my #1 pick for restaurants. After that, it is a matter of identifying specific
restaurants, rather than area.
mhnadel: you don't happen to work at the FCC do you?