🕯️ Best Date Night in Washington DC
36 date night spots in Washington DC, scored and ranked for 2026.
🍽️ Open Interactive GuideTop 10 Date Night Spots
1
Albi
Michael Rafidi's wood-fired Palestinian restaurant in Navy Yard — albi means 'my heart' in Arabic, and the whole place runs on live fire. Crispy kibbeh, hummus under smoked lamb and date molasses, cha...
96
2
Rose's Luxury
Aaron Silverman's Barracks Row townhouse, open since 2013 and the spot that more or less defined DC's wait-in-line dining era. The Thai-leaning salad of sweet lychee and crumbled pork sausage with whi...
94
3
Dōgon by Kwame Onwuachi
Kwame Onwuachi's return to DC, inside the Salamander hotel on the Southwest waterfront. The concept nods to surveyor Benjamin Banneker and Onwuachi's West African roots, running Gulf and Caribbean fla...
93
4
Maydan
A live-fire Middle Eastern, North African, and Caucasus restaurant tucked off 14th Street on Florida Avenue, where every meal starts at a central wood hearth and clay ovens. The family-style menu runs...
93
5
The Dabney
Jeremiah Langhorne's Mid-Atlantic restaurant in Shaw's Blagden Alley, open since 2015 and built around a ten-foot wood-burning hearth you can see from the room. The kitchen cooks regional ingredients ...
93
6
Moon Rabbit
Kevin Tien's modern Vietnamese, reborn in 2024 in a 50-seat Penn Quarter room. The kitchen reinterprets Vietnamese flavor through barbecue-spiced cod in tom yum coconut broth, a lemongrass pork chop w...
92
7
Rasika
The Penn Quarter modern-Indian room that raised the bar for the genre nationally, opened in 2005 by Ashok Bajaj with chef Vikram Sunderam. The palak chaat — crispy fried baby spinach with sweet yogurt...
92
8
Pascual
Isabel Coss and Matt Conroy's wood-fired Mexican on Capitol Hill, open since early 2024 with nearly everything run through smoke and flame. The crispy carrot tlayuda (basically an Oaxacan pizza), slow...
91
9
CUT by Wolfgang Puck
Wolfgang Puck's steakhouse inside the Rosewood on 31st Street in Georgetown, with the CUT Above roof deck over it. The beef programme runs wagyu and dry-aged cuts, but the menu leans harder on the Mid...
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10
Le Diplomate
Stephen Starr's French brasserie on the corner of 14th Street, built to feel like a cafe off Boulevard Saint-Germain. The seats turn over onion soup gratinée, steak frites, roast chicken, moules marin...
89
All 36 Date Night Spots in Washington DC
Silver Lyan
89
Press Club
88
Service Bar
88
Allegory
88
Inferno Pizzeria Napoletana
88
Agora DC
88
Bombay Club
87
Death & Co
86
Apéro
86
The Haymaker Bar
86
El Presidente
86
A Modo Mio
85
12 Stories
85
Casamara
85
Cork Wine Bar & Market
84
The Light Horse
84
Reynold's
84
Maison Bar à Vins
83
JoJo Restaurant and Bar
83
Filomena Ristorante
82
Bar Del Monte
82
Fitzgerald's
82
Whiskey Charlie
81
Gatsby
81
600 T
80
The Smith - Penn Quarter
80
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