Full bar service. 8. Viva 4409 John Marr Dr., Annandale. FOR SALE! 452-1915. Street parking. L daily ex Sat, D daily. L daily ex Sat, D daily. L $3.50-$5.50, D $7-$10. Pre-1980 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ASSOCIATION San Francisco California CA hn1559. A star on the menu is la bourride, a creamy, potent fish soup under a puff pastry crust. Even with a couple of days to craft a response, Khalsa's camp delivered a statement inconsistent with his plea. Wine service is neglectful. 1980s BOSTON SEAFOOD COMPANY Restaurant Menu - Washington DC & St Louis Parking lot. Ae, CB, CC, D, MC,V. " reasonable food but long wait " 05/12/2022. Full bar service. In the pasta department, the noodles are either homemade or top-quality imports, cooked to the proper bite, and often sauced with distinction, as in spaghetti matriciana with its light peppery tomato sauce and chunks of lean, smoky bacon. AE, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. Parking lot. L daily ex Sat, D daily. The Red Fox Tavern Madison and Washington Sts., Middleburg, Va. 471-4455. The more elaborate dishes taste as if the cook were blindly following recipes, adding too much herb or not controlling the frying temperature, but the ingredients are good, and the lemony cheesecake and extraordinarily good pecan pie are obviously made by skilled hands. and car dealers will solely become service centers. 522-8394. There is a good restaurant at Ocean ix, but it is hidden among a lot of mistakes. To your right is a bar bathed in a golden glow of blond wood and hanging glasswar. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPpened to restaurants in the '80s, consider that the first restaurant I reviewed in 1980 was French-American and the last in 1989 was Italian-American . Old South Mountain Inn Boonesboro, Md. 232-8844. Le Manouche 1724 Connecticut Ave. NW. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily. Closed Mon. Full bar service. Rive Gauche 3200 M St., NW. Street parking. Upcoming Events. L $3.85-$7.25, D $5.50-$9.90. It has until now been consistently excellent; I hope its third year blues are short-lived. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations accepted. Full bar service. Full bar service. House of Hunan is an uncommon Fhinese restaurant, uncommonly good, uncommonly elegant, with an array of dishes and special touches found nowhere else in Washington. Sunset serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, but lunch is the prime time. The close seating makes a hectic environment, but both the room and service are colorful and attractive. 737-2101. 277-7174. This is a French restaurant that establishes Washington in the big leagues. Full bar service. Free parking in adjacent lot after 4 p.m. Full bar service. Home Services. Valet parking. Blue Nile 1701 16th St. NW. L daily ex Sat, D daily. Top 10 Best Theme Restaurants in Washington, DC - Yelp 337-7750. Fish filets are moist and, thankfully, unadorned. L daily ex Sat, D daily. Closed Mon. 790-5164. 347-4499. While there certainly is nothing fancy, it is among the last of a breed. All this might work without excellent food, but there is that, too. One of D.C.'s ultimate dive bars, The Raven has been tucked away in Mount Pleasant since 1935. The Third Edition 1218 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Mama Ayesha's Calvert Cafe 1967 Calvert St. NW. Full bar service. L,D $2.95-10.95. 244-2037.L, D $2.95-$8.50. No credit cards. Open daily. L $3.95-$7.50, D $11.50-$14.95. L $2.85-$4.50, D $3.95-$8.50. Full bar service. Pasta sauces have nothing subtle about them, and veal scallopine are overdosed with sweet marsala or lemon. Full bar service. L $2.25-$4.95, D $2.50-$7.50. 833-1858. Parking lot. Parking lot. 920-7892. Ae, MC, V. Reservations suggested. No-smoking section. Closed Sun. 667-1022. Service is gregarious and hospitable. The decade was the gateway to the present in many ways. AE, D, MC, V. Reservations accepted. Open daily. But a change of chefs has brought overcooked chicken, indiffernet sauces. Tom Sarris Orleans House. Esplanade Restaurant Menu Hyatt Regency Hotels Red Cherries 1980's Valet parking for dinner. Pines of Rome 4709 Hampden La., Bethesda. Washington needs more serious seafood restaurants that serve really fresh fish and cook it properly. 667-0047. 548-9181. Main courses give fuller reign to tastes: paella, pork with bananas, several tropical vegetables, rabbit in dark, rich sauce. Finding an extensive seafood menu with special emphasis on grilled fish is welcome. Full bar service. NYC's Best Restaurant Patios. 9ll-6787. Mc, v. Reservations suggested. No credit cards. Children's prices. Szechuan Garden 7945 Tuckerman La., Rockville. You might wonder how this can be considered a decent restaurant, unless you were clever enough to order shrimp de jonghe, jumbo shrimp firm and moist, in a garlic and shallot flecked butter sauce. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily. Open daily. D $6.95-$13.95. D daily. Open daily. The Salle du Bois and Colony might have been swell, but probably the most exclusive restaurant in the city in the 1950s was the Rive Gauche, located at 1310 Wisconsin Avenue NW in Georgetown. D $5.95-$8.75. Booeymonger 5252 Wisconsin Ave. 686-5805. Ae, cb, d, mc, V. Reservations required. Pakoras are likely to be heavy and tough, less acceptable. It has also been a forerunner in prices, the first to charge $10 for what tasted like packaged linguine with clams, $18.50 for a bottle of Blue Nun. L daily ex Fri, Sat, Sun, D daily. Other than that, the upstairs dining room is still simple, with the merest Afghan touches; the prices are still low; and the food is better than ever. Closed Sun. Parking in rear. 966-8285. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily. It has quietly and gradually become a fine restaurant, its cuisine stably settled among those French restaurants just below La Pavillon, Le Lion d'Or and Jean-Louis, keeping company with Jean-Pierre, Le Bagatelle, Dominique's and Rive Gauche on its good days. L $3.50-$9.50, D $4-$12. No-smoking section. 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. It is several restaurants scattered from Columbia to Tysons Corner; it is a Washington institution and live museum of American pub culture; it is Georgetown's longest running mixer. Proper Metrorail Etiquette---What should I know before using Metrorail? But not always. 19. 8. A wooden cart is filled with plants, and illumination is from iron street lamps and stained glass windows. L, D daily. Central to Ethiopian dining are giant, pale, thin pancakes, sour from their fermented batter, which serve as tablecloth and utensil -- you eat with your hands by scooping meats and vegetables with pieces of pancake. The menu runs the usual gamut of snails, pate, onion soup, coq au vin, veal francaise and steak au poive. Children's prices. AE, MC, V. Reservations accepted for dinner only. Order the more highly seasoned dishes. Full bar service. Free parking lot. 10 Things You'll Remember If You Grew Up In The 80s In Washington DC 463-6360. AE, D, MC, V. Reservations accepted. Look for big changes this year in Le Pavillon, at least in the design of the room. Parking lot. Despite the new-found sophistication, the food is still pleasant, rough homestyle food and the kitchen remains as slow as it was when the restaurant was half its present size. L $4.25-$8.95, D $8.95-$16.95. L $5.50-$9.95, D $8.95-$14.95. Full bar service. Parking lot. The brownies, the chocolate chip cookies (from the Capitol Hill branch's carryout market), the macadamia nut roll, the chicken and green bean and seafood salads would win on any first ballot. 751-9266. L $5.95-$12.50, D $7.50-$14.50. Parking garage. In 1950, African American civil-rights leader Mary Church Terrell arrived at this chain cafeteria for lunchand, at 86 years old, was refused service. Full bar service. Reservations accepted. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily. 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. MC, V. No reservations. D daily. Children's prices. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. Service swings wildly from a great show of pulling out your chair to surly response to requests. L, D daily. And the crabmeat quiche is wll packed with crab, a grand ob when the reheating has been careful. The history of restaurants in the Nation's Capital. L $3.95-$6.95, D $5.95-$9.50. 462-5353. 537 incredible photos of 1980s & '90s DC - Greater Greater Washington With costs of everything rising more rapidly than menus can be reprinted, the profit margin is narrowing. Smoked lobster, like smoked crabs, is stir-fried with ginger and scallion. Children's prices. Some dishes miss, particularly mildly seasoned ones and those with too-sweet fruit sauces. L $4.85-$7.75, D $7.95-$12.95. I am guessing it was some sort of steak house, it had big white pillars or columns outside, a two story dining room (I . 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. L, D daily. Vincenzo 1606 20th St., NW. Hours & Location. The Spaghetti Market 6347 Rolling Rd., West Springfield. 638-2444. L, D daily. Worse were main dishes -- over salted, over cooked, soupy, their vegetables slimy from excess heat, the meats and seafoods skimpy. 338-3901. Full bar service. Certainly order peppery Szechuan dishes. 532-9290. L daily ex Sat, Sun, D daily. No-smoking section. The variety is appealing, from hors d'oeuvre plates that are fresh vegetable salads and tiny bits of pate, sardines and the like, to moist bluefish in nantua sauce to cassoulet or just a rib eye steak with french fries. Closed Sun. Stacker compiled a list of the highest rated restaurants in Washington, D.C. from Tripadvisor. Lake Anne Inn 1617 Washington Plaza, Reston. Le Lion d'Or is as prone to human foibles as any restuarant, but it remains a pace-setter and the most mature of Washington's top three French restaurants. The Palazzo Markham East Shopping Center, Annandale. 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. L, D daily. L $3.95-$5.95, D $6.95-$12.95. No credit cards. Henry Africa 607 King St., Alexandria. D daily. Follow your appetizer-salad bar with a pile of crisply grilled lamb chops saturated with garlic, oregano and lemon, or similarly seasoned baked fish filet, or something more complex like filet of beef in wine sauce or lamb baked with tomato. Reservations accepted for dinner only. Closed Sun. L daily ex Sun, D daily. MC, V. Reservations suggested. Agreed. Full bar service. Ae, cb, d, mc, v. rEservations suggested. Linen HOTEL SCENE Washington DC AE1522. NW. The Peasant Basket 3321 Connecticut Ave. NW. Full bar service. Full bar service. Chez Maggy 26 N. Market St. (Rte. Parking lot. L $3.95-$7.95, D $7.50-$8.95. And the price range is tightening, with less difference than ever between the average checks of modest and grand restaurants. Commercial parking lots or street. Mushroom soup has tasted like gray dishwater, rockfish has been overcooked to cryness, and a very pretty salad has been drowned in sweet dressing with chemical undertones. L daily, D daily. Parking in adjacent lot. You just think you have seen salad bars unless you have tried Zachary's. The daily specials are usually the best dishes to order, for they use the season's first basil for pesto and the freshest fish for cold marinated appetizers, and on occasion offer inventions like the quail with fruit and sage stuffing and mushroom sauce. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. AE, CB, D, MC, V. Reservations suggested. NW. Parking lot. L $2.95-$5.95, D $2.95-$6.95. 333-4810. Hamburger Hamlet 10400 Old Georgetown Rd., Bethesda. While not meant to draw diners for a gastronomic evening, the Kennedy Center's Roof Terrace restaurant is doing a better-than-ever job of serving theatergoers quickly and decorously. No-smoking section. End with apple strudel, tart and flaky, for the main dessert alternative is something insultingly called Russian cake, with canned fruit cocktail. Full bar service. Closed Mon. Parking lots. Stacker compiled a list of the highest rated restaurants in Washington, D.C. from Tripadvisor. Beer and wine only. This dim, clubby cave below the street is lush and comfortable, but the best service is reserved for regulars, and newcomers may get short shrift. L $5.75-$12.50, D $10.25-$21. The Broker 713 8th St. Full bar service. Food For Thought 1738 Connecticut Ave. NW. Fish of this quality does not come cheap, but the expense will be bearable if you concentrate on local seafoods and order them simply broiled or fried.Besides good food, the nautical whimsies are good-natured and the waitresses are the wonderful tough-and-cheerful sort that, if they were not so young, would rival Boston's Durgin Park waitress wonders. No matter. No smoking section. L, D daily. L daily ex Sat, D daily. L $1.95-$4.95, D $4.25-$8.95. 468-1122. Desserts are outstanding, none better than the chocolate mousse cheesecake in a nutty crust. Children's prices.