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Originally Posted by IceTrojan
(Post 7646564)
Not wanting to start a new thread, I was wondering what your restaurant recommendations were for ordinary people, not looking for the best (read: most expensive) nor any particular cuisine. Something that isn't a tourist trip nor pretentious, but rather somewhere a local would have a meal at. As a consequence, I've already written off the entire G'town area ;)
Examples of what I'm looking for: --Rudy's BBQ in Austin. --Shapiro's Deli in Indianapolis. --Squat and Gobble in San Francisco. --Katz's in NYC (ok, a little touristy is ok) --In-n-Out in LA ;) --5 Guys and the Chili Bowl in DC. Thanks! Moby Dicks (kabobs, etc.) Jaleo and La Tasca (tapas) City Lights (Chinese) Creme Cafe (American) Zaytinya Julie's Empanadas |
A great place that I go to a lot is Lavandou. Not only does it serve reasonable haute French cuisine - but you get miles there through iDine, plus on Sunday nights you get 1,000 OpenTable points.
They also offer OpenTable VIP benefits - a free champagne cocktail for free. Can't beat it. |
Most of Chinatown's restaurants have a lot of tourists and my friends and I only go because they are close, but one Chinatown restaurant that is very popular with locals (who will go for the food and not the convenience) is Matchbox. All the pizzas are good, as is the miniburger appetizer.
Lauriol Plaza is probably the main Tex-Mex type eatery for locals (most everything else claiming to be Mexican or Tex-Mex is really Salvadoran food given the large Salvadoran community). In the Dupont/Logan areas, Logan Tavern, Merkado, and Raku are all popular. They all also have outdoor seating that we'll hopefully get to be using now that spring is here! |
most anyplace in adams morgan and the 18th & U st corridor.
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