Tail Up Goat in DC on Tuesday night (1*).

Meh. The food was good, and the service was definitely 1*... but... just not 1* food IMHO. Maybe I had the wrong dishes.

They brought out a "non-alcoholic palate-cleanser" which was essentially beet pickling juice. I dunno; I have never been a big beet fan, but it was like drinking pink vinegar with beets.

The rabbit sausage appetizer I had was the best dish IMHO. Also had a pate with gigantic slabs of overly-charred grilled sourdough bread, an over-salted pasta with sausage (good) and lima beans (bit odd given the pasta size/texture) and shaved ricotta (way too plasticy; need a cheese with higher fat content in such a rich dish). Dessert was a grapefruit gelato with a crispy sesame brittle; the gelato was very good, but didn't IMHO work with the sesame brittle.

Of the DC Michelin-started joints I've tried, it was probably the most underwhelming of the meals. I'll give it another go with friends sometime to see if it was just an off night, but would go to Rose's, Kinship, Blue Duck Tavern, or the Dabney first among the 1* places.