Rather than conventional deep-fried buffalo wings, the wings here are confitted & served with the usual bleu cheese & buttermilk dressing. Or go crazy with the duck confit & pulled pork quesadillas. Подробнее.
Todd Gray's Watershed - this crowded spot does the classic oysters-&-vodka thing to perfection, but also offers other refreshing staples like beef tartare, sashimi, crudo -- anything raw & fresh. Подробнее.
Why? Because there is a mural of Bill Clinton with a horse's body. With its fin-de-siecle decor, it's champagne-centric wine menu and its cabaret dancers, Sax does decadence right Подробнее.
Columbia Firehouse in Alexandria is actually two concepts in one: an American bistro downstairs -- with everything from mussels to baby backs -- and a chophouse upstairs. Подробнее.
It's one of those cool-in-summer, warm-in-winter basement pubs that offers a full menu of cocktails and bar bites, but where you can really only picture yourself drinking Jameson. Подробнее.
This city needs help with the whole romance thang. All we know is an evening of live jazz & a plate of slippery bivalves is better than our traditional "2 hrs of C-SPAN followed by an argument"
As the name implies, it's red. It's small, expertly designed, vaguely Parisian. This is the sort of place where you sort of curl away into the corner with a rum cocktail, perhaps a "San Juan Swizzle" Подробнее.
Where to go? Lounge on the lush, leafy, Astroturf-floored Sky Bar roof, nibbling on small plates while sipping craft cocktails and point out that "they look like a bunch of little ants from here." Подробнее.
