Street parking. Bare linoleum, a bakery counter, beaded curtains and a well-scrubbed air make up the Arabian Nights, a family-run operation that is just short of eating in someone's home. L daily ex Sat, D daily. Joe and Mo's does a few things very well. Le Vagabond 7315 Wisconsin Ave. NW. The path to take is an appetizer of mussels with tomato sauce and plenty of garlic of fried squid; the empanaditas are merely ordinary. Cool "Disco" Dan. How do you get to Mt. Street parking or garage next door. eParking at nearby garage. Order small bowls of stewed chicken, lamb or beef, either mildly spiced with cumin, cinnamon and the like, or hotly peppered with red pepper paste; spoon mounds of the meats and side dishes of braised cabbage and green beans and carrots in between, then start tearing and scooping. Reservations suggested for lunch, required for dinner. Full bar service. Arlington. But a change of chefs has brought overcooked chicken, indiffernet sauces. Commercial parking lots. L, D daily. L $3.25-$4.95, D $7.25-$13.95. West African restaurants have come and gone in Washington, but Baobab seems here to stay. Plata Grande 4060 Powder Mill Rd., Beltsville. Vincenzo 1606 20th St., NW. Parking in Colonial garage at dinner only. Open dailey. L $3.95-$6.50, D $4.95-$7.50. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations accepted. 900 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20006. Clyde's/Tysons Corner 8332 Leesburg Pike, Vienna. Washington has many elegant restaurants, but most of those serving good food in luxurious surrounding are either French or Italian. 667-1022. Full bar service. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily.AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. E., Landley Park. All this might work without excellent food, but there is that, too. NW. Children's prices. Street parking or commercial lots. 543-5005. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily. The spumoni tastes like sherbet, but you can find a midnight-dark and moist chocolate cake and service that is winning even when the kitchen is irritatingly slow. No wonder. 833-8870. In the six months during which I visit restaurants -- at least once a day -- for the Fall Dining Guide, I must arbitrarily leave out some that are as important or agreeable as many that are included. Price $$$$$. Some of the dishes are superb, the crusty lamb filet with brown sauce heavily scented by garlic, the crayfish or fresh shrimp in chive cream. But it is frayed, slightly ramshackle and strung with fish nets and tawdry gewgaws, and the kitchen is part of the present slipshod era. Szechuan & Hunan has mastered the art of presenting vegetables crisp and meats and seafoods plump and moist. Full bar service. Valet parking. AE, MC, V. No reservations. Golden Temple Conscious Cookery 1521 Connecticut Ave. NW. MC, V. Reservations suggested. L $4.25-$9.95, D $9.95-$15.95. Most unusual among the appetizers are crispy shrimp balls and vegetable curl, the smoky diced bits to be wrapped in letturce. Sir Walter Raleigh Inn Check local phone directories for locations. L daily ex Sat, D daily. Beyond that are light main dishes -- quiches, eggs, salads, and a couple of undistinguished vegetable and fish casseroles. Children's prices. But if you ignore the flossy touches, such as cloying Polynesian drinks, and approach this as a hospitable neighborhood Chinese restaurant with a Vietnamese accent, you will find it worth remembering when you are around Tysons Corner. 354-1677. Children's prices. There is a good restaurant at Ocean ix, but it is hidden among a lot of mistakes. We won't fault you for getting misty-eyed over these failed fast-food chain restaurants from the 1980s. Ae, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations accepted. Some dishes miss, particularly mildly seasoned ones and those with too-sweet fruit sauces. Binnacle III Off Rte. L $2.50-$7, D $6.50-$15. Beer and wine only. Quincy's 5444 Columbia Pike, Arlington. Full bar service. Fox's Pizza Den. Parking in rear. Old Angler's has its standards, but they need to be applied to the kitchen. Part of the magic may be having to reserve two weeks to the day in advance, the reconfirming the day before and the long drive down a winding wooded road, but there is no doubt that L'Auberge Chez Francois is a special place when you get there. Capitol Forum 941 North Capitol St. 789-0582. 893-3390. Ledo 2420 University Blvd. L daily ex Sat, D daily. Parking lot. View Menu. No smoking. Pre-1980 SEA GRILL RESTAURANT Bethesda Maryland & Washington DC G8405@ EUR 2,24 Sofort-Kaufen , EUR 4,13 Versand , 60-Tag Rcknahmen, eBay-Kuferschutz Verkufer: postcardworld (1.433) 98.9% , Artikelstandort: Ontario, CA , Versand nach: WORLDWIDE, Artikelnummer: 325544692621 When it opened -- to much fanfare among old India hands -- it was a rather expensive restaurant. Full bar service. Comus Inn 23900 Old Hundred Rd., Comus, Md. Look here for profiles of the District's many. 965-5252. Childrens prices. There is competent service and an occasional hug from the mama of the house. more. The House of Hunan is an exceptional addition to Washington's hundreds of Chinese restaurants, and Vincenzo's, once the kinks are ironed out, is aiming for the top among Italian restaurants. Rafters at Landmark 2 S. Whiting St., Alexandria. No-smoking section. And most of the oven cooking or simmering -- stuffed vegetables, baked kibbe, wet couscous -- is overcooked and no better than average. L, D $2.25-$4.50. Full bar service. Appetizers include savory German variations on charcuterie: air-dried beef, head cheese, Westphalian ham and tangy vinegary meat, cheese or herring salads. The China Inn staff is trying hard, from the voluble owner to the waitresses to the kitchen. Szechuan Garden Bethesda 7800 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. Closed Mon. 667-0047. No alcoholic beverages. Parking in commercial lots and on street. 340-8596. AE, MC, D, V. Reservations accepted only for six or more. Ae, d, mc, v. Reservations suggested. II Nido is handsome as an Italian film star and propped with interesting dishes like fregnacce and other handmade pastas. Valet parking. This is barbecue at its local best. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. No matter. L $3.50-$9.50, D $6.50-$9.50. Closed Sun. washington, dc restaurants in the 1980s. Well known chefs like Mike Isabella plan to debut new concept restaurants here as well. AE, CB, D, MC, V. No reservations. Hill - 406 8th St SE) The Greenery (18th btw L and M) The Guards (2915 M St NW) The Hayloft. Full bar service. Much of the food, whether the soups or sauces, is slightly clumsy, lacking delicacy or being left too bland. Street parking or adjacent garage. Start dinner with a champagne and framboise cocktail and end by taking home a quiche or plum tart for tomorrow when you wish you were back at Chez Francois. Chez Grand Mere 3057 M St. NW. Parking in shopping center lot. AE, MC, V. No reservations. Street parking. Closed Sun. Children's prices. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. 836-3200. Smoked lobster, like smoked crabs, is stir-fried with ginger and scallion. Sauces are light-textured, though some dises are greasy. Ae, MC, V. Reservations suggested. Full bar service. Ae, cb, d, mc, V. Reservations suggested.Parking lot. Mc, v. Reservations accepted. Split a half-order of onion rings. My Brother and Me 1700 K St. NW. Full bar service. No credit cards. The Big Cheese 3139 M St. NW. La Maree's more modest self-introduction leaves room for unexpected pleasures. And include something from the charcoal grill: shrimp sates, lemon grass spareribs, Korean-style short ribs. Parking in front. Parking lots on either side. 362-8200. Full bar service. some good, some bad, that's the way it goes. Among main dishes, the crab imperial is historically and currently excellent, and dishes with hollandaise or bearnaise sauces fare well. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. Reservations suggested. With so many good new restaurants, it is obvious why some old favorites have missed being reviewed this year. In our lobby, you'll be drawn to the soft amber glow of The Next Whisky Bar, considered by many to have the best whisky bar menu and design in D.C. Outside in the garden, experience our terrace designed for groups to enjoy drinks and tapas. AE, MC, V. Reservations suggested. Parking lot. In either case, the quality is as impressive as the variety.As for dinner, Tung Bor emphasizes fresh fish and seafood, and one is wise to follow suit. Usually the pastas are homemade, delicate, delicious.You can get an excellent meal at Tiberio, fresh fish and pale veal and seafoods in buttery cream sauces, and even richer tarts and cakes for dessert. Full bar service. Ae, mc, v. Parking lot. Full bar service. Open daily. AE, CB, CC, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. AE, MC, V. Reservations accepted for five or more. L $3.25-$5, D $5-$9. L $3.45-$4.95, D $3.50-$10.50. Top 10 Best Theme Restaurants in Washington, DC - Yelp L $3.75-$5.25, D $4.25-$13.95. Swensen's 1990 K St. NW. L, D $3.75-$7.95. AE, D, MC, V. Reservations accepted. Full bar service. Street parking. The whole fish with black bean sauce is a good buy, fried lightly and carefully, and seasoned with fire and flair. DITCH THE VALET: Affordable Parking Options for under $10/nt, How to Request a White House Tour as a Foreign Visitor - 2019. It is always, however, a pretty little Italian restaurant, white with touches of pink, and lovely, flossy little arrangements of flowers on the table. Full bar service. Much has improved at Jean-Pierre in the past year, for it has become a handsome restaurant, its appearance worthy of its kitchen. L, D daily. Parking in shopping center lot. No-smoking section. D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. Open daily. No reservations. 527-0100. Da Vinci 2514L St., NW. The most interestng dishes are likely to be on the printed list of daily specials, and Le Bagatelle deserves praise for actually printing the list rather than leaving it to the captain to recite for the diners to memorize. L $3.50-$8.25, D $6.25-$13.95. BEFORE YOU POST A HOTEL REQUEST, PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY! And the service is personable, casual. Parking lot. Full bar service. Desserts are outstanding, none better than the chocolate mousse cheesecake in a nutty crust. L daily ex Sat, D daily. Vietnam Georgetown 2934 M. St., NW. Old Ebbit Grill, Lunch, 1945. La Miche 7905 Norfolk Ave., Bethesda. Children's prices. Start with samosas, flaky fried dough triangles stuffed with spiced meat or vegetables and dipped into a wonderful sweet-hot-tart tamarind chutney. The surroundings are sedate, tasteful, an elegant collation of heavily textured fabric walls, plants and strikingly beautiful photographs.The food, too, is unusual, tasteful and elegant, a changing repertioire of dishes mostly Vietnamese but from all of Asia, with always a few exciting new inventions. Some of the grand entree adventures are fresh baby duckling with cassis, crayfish, roasted loin of veal with fresh wild mushrooms, saddle fo rabbit. Le Manouche 1724 Connecticut Ave. NW. Valet parking after 6:30 p.m. Full bar service. E, MC, V. Reservations suggested. Its high intentions are apparent from the start, from the curved brick stairway under a grand canopy. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily. AE, MC, V. Reservations suggested. L $2.95-$5.75, D $4-$9. Children's meals. It is just an enormous old apartment house coffee shop with travel posters and vinyl tablecloths, but Fio's has real southern Italian cooking at coffee-shop prices. After years of being one of Washington's great bargain restaurants, the Thai Room seems to have taken a nosedive. All this, and the prices are low, servings large and menu extensive. One of the most attractive and ambitious Italian restaurants in town has succumbed to lassitude. Open daily. With most of the main dishes under $4 and a jug of that intriguing honey wine $1, Mamma Desta's is a unique bargain. AE, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. The cha goi, Vietnamese spring rolls, however, are excellent, and you can do well with shrimp with a curry sauce that includes peanuts and coconut, or beef ground, firmly packed -- too firmly -- and wrapped in aromatic leaves before grilling. Children's prices. MC, V. No reservations. While it may have "grill" in the name, diners won't find much more than Utz potato chips to go with the beer and rail drinks. 340-6880. L,D $2.95-10.95. Chateau Gesundheit 7141 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. 4611 Laverock Pl NW # 1, Washington, DC 20007 is an apartment unit listed for rent at /mo. L daily ex Sat, D daily. 998-6616. Street parking. AE, D, V. Reservations suggested. Beer and wine only. 227 Massachusetts Ave. NE. Parking in front. L daily ex Sun, D daily. With improvements in that arena and Szechuan's talent in playing with fire, this is Chinatown's best bet. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations required. L $3.95-$7.25, D $6.95-$11.95. Street parking. AE, MC, V. Reservations suggested.Parking in commercial lots. Parking in rear or street. Full bar service. The restaurants also offer outstanding lists of American wines as well as imports. Past the 1950s, White Tower, its restaurants mostly relegated to urban areas, began to fade away; it never made the move to the more lucrative suburbs, like many of its fast-food competitors did . L daily ex Sat, D daily. L $2.50-$6.50, D $2.50 -$12. L $2.95-$5.50, D$6.50-$10.50. Full bar service. Open daily. 234-6969. 333-4187. 537 incredible photos of DC in the 1980s & '90s You tear off bits of pancake and scoop up bits of lamb or lentil stew or chopped raw beef. The Tiki Room. 265-7233. Map. The bad news is that my last sample of Bacchus' food was nowhere near as luscious as it had been. L $3.25-$8.25, D $4.95-$14.95. Street parking. 548-2255. Start with shrimp tempura, however, and ask if there are stir-fried crabs available. The empanadas are also excellent. Kebabs are tender and juicy, only mildly seasoned, so that the charcoal flavor predominates. The other dishes on the menu, most of which are designated delicacies or specialities, tend to be very mildly seasoned, so you might want to urge the kitchen to loosen up a bit. The fare is fair these days, though the pastries are more buttery, more delicate, more professional than ever. Valet parking, free at dinner. Open daily. The satay, once boldly spiced, juicy skewered meats, were less spicy, their peanut sauce distinctly less peppery. The Tides Lodge Irvington, Va. 804/438-6000. D $9.95-$14.50. This vegetarian restaurant has expanded by removing dividers that once lent privacy and has added an outdoor cafe. cLe Bagatelle attends carefully to salads, and its cheese slection is well chosen and impeccably served. Closed Sun. Parking garage. Parking in rear. Closed Mon. 785-0734. D daily. Pueblo Joe's understands a lot about the mystique of beauty. L daily ex Sat, D daily. Children's prices. 783-4133. Children's prices. Dominique 1900 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Parking in front. Free parking in building at dinner. On the side are sweet spiced rice, beige from its seasonings, and iceberg lettuce salad with a tangy lemon dressing, as well as ridged slabs of homemade bread. 466-4570. Its pre- and post- theater dinners are a remarkable bargain. Hickory-smoked slabs of meat, cafeteria lines and Formica are as American as the Stars and Stripes, so if you are looking for something to categorize as an American restaurant, try O'Brien's. AE, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. Parking lot next door. 338-8707. Full bar service. No smoking section. One of the prettiest restaurants in town, with a floating stairway up the two-story dining room and contemporary stained glass tinting the old brick, Da Vinci serves some of the best pasta in town. L, D daily. The heart of the nenu is the a la carte section: tacos are puffy or crisp, depending on which you order, well stuffed and well seasoned. L, D daily. L daily ex Sat, D daily. Children's prices. D $5.95-$12.50.D daily. Vegetables (which do not, by the way, accompany the shrimp) are also good, whether fresh green beans or potato baked with a sprinkle of salt and no foil wrapper. The 1,000 sq. L, D daily. Parking lot. NYC's Best Restaurant Patios. Open daily. L $3-$6, D $3-$7.50. Frascati 4806 Rugby Ave., Bethesda. Parking lot. Most of the eateries will possess deep roots in DC's growing restaurant scene. On the plate, the food is pretty and fresh, and the diversity caters to those hungering after a full traditional meal or just a sandwich. The fried mozzarella is superlative, light and crisp and oozing cheese. Parking lot. L, D $2.25-$5.95. Reservations accepted. The cha gio are fine peppery meat-and-crab stuffed rice paper rolls, and the grilled beef with lemon grass is perfumed, juicy skewered bits. Serbian Crown 4529 Wisconsin Ave., NW. The dining room is small, the booths just large enough for four slim diners, the decorations limited to a few carnations, some cardboard cartons and a refrigerator with a few stray bottles of wine and beer. Commercial parking lots. L, D daily. Reservations accepted. Skip the fettucine alfredo and finish with one of this town's really good cannoli. Parking in rear. But I found no dish that meets any desire. Parking in rear. Beer and wine only. And at dinner, the charcoal-grilled skewered meats are the stars of the menu, particularly shish kebab or kufta kebab. Open daily. Steamed quiche is a dish to order, and apollo seafood is even better if you like squid. AE, MC, V. Reservations accepted. And the attention in the kitchen is no less than in the dining room. 589-1306. L $2.60-$3.20, D $3.35-$5.75. Open daily. Children's prices. Children's prices. But above all, it is a personal restaurant, where the maitre d'hotel remembers not only your name but also where you sat last year, and maybe 10 years ago when they opened. Empty tables are seen for the first time in some restaurants. Fuji 3299 M St. NW. AE, CB, MC, V.Reservations accepted. Parking next door. While the menu does not easily translate into English and the waiters are little more descriptive than the menu, the foods are essentially similar, meat or fish stews in peppery tomato or peanut sauces, accompanied on wooden platters by rice or another grain and sauteed cabbage, carrots and zucchini. 1983 The Food Marketing Institute reports that 2/3 of all fish consumed in the U.S. is eaten in restaurants. Mall parking.Full bar service. Full bar service. Last year the Maison Blanche opened across from the Executive Office Building, with a sea of flowered carpeting covering its expensive ground. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily. 966-8285. The room has been redone in bright glazed tiles on a white tile background, floors and walls, and the effect is at least startling. White enamel chairs with woven seats are pulled up to tables covered with soft orange cloths. L $3.25-$8.95, D $5.95-$11.95. L daily ex Sat, D daily. Look for the puff-pastry-and-almond-paste pithivier for dessert; served warm, it oozes butter and is ribboned with whipped cream. 301/544-0227. It remains intact after fears of losing the chef to the tug of France, this brilliant little restaurant hidden under the Watergate. 10. Mama's 1901 N. Ft. Myer Dr., Arlington. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily. Unclaimed. L $3.95-$6.95, D $5.95-$9.50. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. Fortunes shift, and fans shift back and forth between Georgetown's two side-by-side Vietnamese restaurants with this, the corner one, being the insiders' current favorite. Full bar service. Order from the front page of specialties and certainly try a Hunan dish -- perhaps shredded chicken with broccoli -- violently hot or very mild, as you wish. Open daily. Full bar service. The walls are gilt-edged black, and the diners are gilt-edged meat and potatoes fans. Claude's 9021 Gaither Rd., Gaithersburg. Parking in front. No credit cards. Dominique is the Ted Turner of French restaurateurs. Full bar service. Street parking. AE, CB, D, MC, V.Reservations suggested. Full bar service. Full bar service. AE, MC, V. Reservations accepted. Parking lot. Service is sometimes awkward, as when the waitress asks the patron to open the wine because she does not know how, but the eagerness to please is part of the charm, and Axum is a nice place to visit.