Palestinian · Navy Yard · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 (#6); One MICHELIN Star; James Beard Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic (Michael Rafidi)
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...
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Dōgon by Kwame Onwuachi
Afro-Caribbean · Southwest Waterfront · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 (#37); MICHELIN Guide Washington DC
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...
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The Dabney
Mid-Atlantic · Shaw · One MICHELIN Star (since 2017); James Beard Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic 2018 (Jeremiah Langhorne)
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 ...
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Moon Rabbit
Vietnamese · Penn Quarter · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 (#24); MICHELIN Guide Washington DC
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...
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Rasika
Indian · Penn Quarter · MICHELIN Guide Washington DC; James Beard Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic 2014 (Vikram Sunderam)
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...