Dining in DC

While traveling, one of my favorite things to do is randomly explore the restaurants around. The past spring break, I went to Washington DC with some friends and had some fantastic dining experiences. The following are my Top2 favorites.

1.     The Diner

 

(Picture from Yelp)

(picture from Yelp)

Located on 18th St NW in Adam Morgan, The Diner has a nice outdoor seating area, a TV inside, and enough space for each table. The atmosphere there is very relaxing and family friendly. Our waitress is extremely welcoming and knows the menu very well. After consulting her, we order steak salad, lamb mini burgers, honey banana milkshake and strawberry chocolate milkshake.

Steak Salad

The steak salad consists of medium rare steak slices, romaine lettuce, cucumbers and cherry tomatoes. The portion size is huge and all of the ingredients are really fresh. We season the salad with only salt and pepper to enjoy the nature flavor of the ingredients and it is delicious.

Lamb mini burgers

These grilled lamb burgers are served with slices of ripe tomatoes and red onion in pita bread with a fresh tasting cucumber sauce seasoned with fresh mint and garlic. I'm not a huge fan of burgers but I have to admit that I love these mini burgers! The juiciness of lamb, the sweetness of read onion and the freshness of mint go really well together and create a harmonic taste.

Milkshake

The milkshake comes in tall goblet type of glass and it tastes heavenly. The waitress even bring us the silver blender-cup that she make it in, so it was like having two glasses of milkshakes!

2. Kintaro

（Picture from Yelp)

Kintaro is a Japanese restaurant located in Georgetown, one of the most historic neighborhoods of DC. I went there with my high school friend who is now studying at George Washington University. She told me that though she had already been to many great restaurants in DC, Kintaro is still her top favorite. It is a tiny family-run restaurant. All the chefs and waiters are Japanese and most of the diners were speaking Japanese, which makes the place seemed very authentic to me. 

Spicy California Roll

Miso Ramen

We had a spicy California roll, miso ramen and a delicious fish sushi which I can't recall its name. From want I know, Japanese cuisine is about the simplicity and freshness of ingredients and all of these dishes embodied that. The crab meat in the California roll and the fish meat on the top of the sushi were all extremely fresh and soft in taste. The miso ramen contained seaweed, noodles, some veggies, one half of an egg and two slices of pork. The broth was tasty but not overly salty or flavorful and it was a good bowl of Ramen on the more simplistic side that focuses on the few ingredients it has.

So, if you are going to visit Washington DC and will pass by these areas, try these restaurants. I promise they will make your trip a more fulfilling one.