Where You Should Be Drinking: DC’s barmini With new and interesting places opening up all the time, we can easily be caught up chasing what’s hot. In all the hustle, it’s easy to forget the places that have been there the whole time, doing what they do, and doing it extremely well. It would be a pity to forget barmini, renowned chef and restaurant mogul Jose Andres’ cocktail laboratory. We last (and first)...
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Where We’ve Been Drinking: Zaytinya We heard about Jose Andres well before we ever arrived in DC; we had more than one friend who gave us a goodbye gift in the form of a gift card to his restaurant group. We took it as a clear sign that a) we should go to one of his many restaurants (I mean, why not?) b) it would be really good. So for our anniversary, we trekked to Zaytinya for some celebratory fare. The place is such a great...
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Where We’ve Been Drinking: Rasika When we decided to move to DC, all of our kind friends with DC connections sent us their lists of favorite restaurants. Rasika was near the top of everyone’s list. We can see why. It’s a bustling, completely full downtown restaurant. We had a tough time getting a table in the main dining room (on a Monday no less), but the host told us that they could make us a reservation in their...
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Where we’ve been drinking: POV POV. It’s the swanky rooftop bar at the W Hotel. Everything we have read told us we should go there. And, after going there we can unequivocally say two things: It was a great way to start the evening. We’re so glad we went; We’re somewhat ashamed that we believed it when this place ended up on so many ‘Best Cocktails of DC’ lists. Here’s the thing. Several years...
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