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Has anyone been? Tried to pop in on Friday and it was packed, so they are drawing a crowd. My one hang up is the kids menu items are $13!! Anyone know if the Happy Hour is available on weekends and is it only at bar?
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Sad news, but not all together surprising: Garrison Will Close Saturday.
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Anyone been this week for the 5th Anniversary menu? Curious what is on it. Going Friday.
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Very happy to see this post today. We're headed out for little pre-baby pampering at the Salamander Resort in Middleburg this weekend and are eating Saturday night at Ashby while we are out there. So looking forward to it! Will post thoughts next week.
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We also stopped by last night and had a great experience. I concur the space it really lovely and unique and the service was spot on. We had the fried eggplant and the strawberry ricotta pasta from the "small plates" section and shared the fried chicken with fixins' from the "Family Style" section. All were very very good with just a bit of a surprise/twist on what you would traditionally expect. This was actually our second visit. We stopped by opening weekend and had a snack at the bar (popcorn soup and lychee salad - also unique and very tasty). Overall, we've loved our experiences and were delighted to see it pretty busy on a Monday night. They indicated the menu would be changing up soon and we noticed at least one new item added this go round, which is a smart thing with such a small menu. Great addition to the otherwise largely uninspiring fare on 8th.
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Can't wait to see the early reviews on this spot. Anyone check it out yet?
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Sad news. Eola closing end of the month: http://www.eoladc.com/
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They won't be able to seat you together but have heard them offer to split you up into, say 2 groups of 3 or group of 4 and 2. I think there is little guarantee that you will be seated at the exact same time but they seem to try to do their best.
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Should also mention we book ended dinner with a drink before at Passenger and one after at Rogue 24. Makes for a fun Convention Center progressive dinner night.
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We ate at the bar on Saturday on a bit of a whim and service was stellar. I think the bartender's name was Dee and not only was service NOT slow, it was warm and engaging and all around great. Food was also a treat (each had one of Tom Power's wonderful soups, husband had duck, I had perfectly cooked Branzino, finished with sorbet and ice cream). We arrived around 7 and it was never more than 1/2 full in the 2 hours we were there. Great under the radar special (but not crazy) date night.
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Great dinner here last night. Charming and warm space, refreshing mix of ages (hipsterville has not taken over.. At least not before 9), great service, moderate prices and delicious food. We started with a pair of crostinis - smoked trout (our favorite) and ricotta, two pastas (perfectly cooked), two glasses of wine each and were out under $100. Despite living on the Hill and working in DuPont we will make a point to venture back and in fact so wish the Hill had a truly neighborhood spot like this. Well done Red Hen team.
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What is the table wait process? Do you put your name in and they text you like Toki? Or do you have to hover? We are hoping to go tonight and don't really know what to expect for getting a table for two on a Friday night.
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So is Nooshi actually open on 8th or was Saturday just a pre-opening? While Nooshi isn't exactly Taro, it will fill a much needed niche for decent sushi on the Hill...
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As a young Hill staffer, I had a couple of colleagues who waited tables at Park Cafe to make ends meet, so I'm a bit familiar with the owners less than traditional restaurant management style! The wine list at Ninella was pretty standard, but also fairly affordable (at least by the glass) compared to what I'm seeing around town these days.
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I think so... this is the number on their Yelp page: (202) 543-0184, which seems to have been the old number as well
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Chanced it and went on Friday (I called late afternoon and was able to get a table). The atmosphere of the place is great, very cozy and true neighborhood feel (and in surveying the patrons, I would guess most are neighbors) and the service was quite good. The menu is small: handful of apps, maybe 5 pastas and 5 meat/fish options. We started with the buffalo mozzarella which was rather boring, but fine. We ordered two pastas: Tagliatelle with meat ragu and lasagna. The lasagna was wonderfully rich and flavorful, the tagliatelle was incredibly bland. We thought the prices were moderate. We will definitely go back in the future.
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Has anyone been? Decent Yelp reviews, but ya know...
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This makes me so so sad. I can't believe they couldn't hang on just a little longer, I think in time this spot would have been a destination.. I hope it resurfaces somewhere and I hope something else takes over the beautiful space.
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Stopped by during their first "soft open" night last night. Love the space which I would describe as cozy and old school. We didn't go for any of the delightful looking cocktails, but did sample a couple plates of food. Since it was literally their first night, I don't feel right reviewing the food but will say we thoroughly enjoyed. The owners were so friendly. Think this just may become a regular spot...
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A new neighborhood kebob spot from the folks behind Nooshi and (I think) Moby Dick. Soft opening tonight for neighbors with 50% off of all checks. Lovely decor and a small but tasty menu... Reasonable prices. "Fast casual" with table service and a full bar. A good addition to the neighborhood. Look forward to the Nooshi-esque concept opening upstairs from it in coming months.
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We actually ate here just last night. The place was full and the style and decor are trendy but still warm. Our server could not have been nicer. The wine list is interesting: quite a few Balkan wine varieties I had never tried before (tiny bit pricey but where isn't these days?). The food, however, was a disappointment. I've never been to that region of the world so I am certainly not qualified to say that its "not authentic" but after reading the recent profile in the Post I think it's safe to say this is highly watered down, Americanized version of whatever it once was. In the end, it reminded me of Agora, but not as good. We likely erred in our ordering by not paying close enough attention to the menu, but we ended up with 4 out of our 6 dishes being either fried or breaded. The bacon wrapped dates were good, but similar to many other places. The cheese pie was also pretty good, gooey and cheesy. It went downhill from there: leek croquettes were bland, Parmesan crusted chicken was dry and also bland, panko crusted pepper tasted like TGIFriday's jalapeno poppers. We ended with the sour cabbage stuffed with ground beef, which seemed to us to perhaps be on the more authentic end of this.. and quite good. The pacing between courses was so slow that we were too stuffed to eat much (I know this means we over ordered, but nonetheless if the food came a more consistent pace we would have enjoyed more of it.) I may go back and steer toward the meat and seafood courses and stay away from the clearly "trying to appeal to the usual CAVA crowd" items. I have seen some criticism that portions are small. We did not find this to be so. We over ordered with 6 dishes. Easily could have stopped after 3-4 and gotten out of there for around $80 with two drinks each. As a neighbor, I hope the food improves otherwise I fear it will end up being more of a drinking spot, than an eating spot.
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The speakeasy (Harold Black) is totally unmarked, behind a door that is more or less inside of Suna (at the top of the stairs - you turn right to actually enter Suna; the Speakeasy is behind a sliding door on the left). We asked our lovely server if it would be possible to have a nightcap there after dinner and she just popped her head in next door to make sure they had room. We overheard other tables doing the same. Supposedly you need a reservation like the early days of Gibson and they have no listed phone number to do so. This makes it sound like the spot may be uptight or annoyingly but we did not find it to be so. Menu is a dozen or so craft cocktails for $12 and a decent number of both beer and wine. And yes, as Pat noted, bar snacks are made by the Suna kitchen. Great dark, moody atmosphere.
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We had a wonderful meal last night, on a bit of a whim after a lot of family time and heavy holiday food, it was the perfect contrast. We did the four course with pairings, which was more than enough food. Atmosphere was warm and interesting, service was nearly perfect and the food was inventive, unique and very very good. My husband commented that this was one of the few tasting menus we've experienced where the "main" course was the star (I had the fowl, he had the pork). We ended the night with a cocktail at the new speakeasy next door - very cozy. There were a number of empty tables at Suna. It is obviously a holiday week so I am hoping that is why. Great new add to the Hill. Go!
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However, if you are wanting to put your name if for a later seating rather than going ahead and sitting at 5:30, I don't believe your whole party has to be there just to put the ask in. You certainly do all have to show back up as a full party when they indicate your table is ready.
