Restaurant Hopping

[acevedo81]

For the past 4 months or so I have gathered a group of friends (some in the restaurant business) and we start around 6ish hopping by a 3-4 restaurants sampling some food and drinks that we research as something great each place has to offer. Of course I have used this site and others to figure out what restaurants and what dishes/drinks we can´t miss. There are a few rules here:

1. Each place has to be walking distance from the next

2. You cannot order more than a taste at each place, to ensure that there is enough room to move on to the next location.

3. DC only

Some of the routes we have chosen are:

1. Taberna del Alabardero - Restaurant Kolumbia - kinkeads

2. PS7 - Poste - Tosca

3. Taberna del Alabardero - Zaytinya - Proof (ok, so i broke rule 1 here)

The problem is that I´m running out of ideas and I know there are so many options... Can you suggest a group of restaurants we could try? if you are interested in joining, please let me know so we can include you?

Thanks in advance

[Ferhat Yalcin]

you can try, Palena-Dino and Palena

[collije]

How about the Central, D'Acqua [although the salt-baked fish is what's best here imo so that's a full dinner], & give 701 Pennsylvania a try [very happy results just a month back].

Else, replace one with The Source, Cafe du Parc / Willard Room [same building], or TenPenh.

[starfish]

I have done:

Hook, Mendocino Grille, Citronelle Lounge, West End Bistro

Blue Duck Tavern (not at thier best for this type of experience,) Hudson, Vidalia

[chickenlover]

you can try, Palena-Dino and Palena

Palena-Dino-Vace

[collije]

Another is U Street area: Creme Cafe, Al Crostino, and Ooohs & Ahhs / Chix. Can replace one with Saint-Ex.

[Heather]

Scott and I did Indique-Palena-Bardeo one evening. I seem to recall it was nice.

[Banco]

A Capitol Hill version would be: Montmartre-Belga-Sonoma-Johnny's Half Shell

[Tweaked]

You could do the Jose Andres Penn Quartet (hahaha)

Jaleo

Oyamel

Zaytinya

Cafe Atlantico

Although that would be a bit nightmare-ish on a Friday night!

[Apples & Bananas]

You could also do an Armstrong run in Old Town - Start off with Eamonn's, then the Majestic, Eve and finish it up with a drink at PX.

[DPop]

I would pass on Tweaked's Jose Andres Penn Quarter tour (all of those places have declined in the last year, in my opinion), and instead go on a little walking tour of PQ and Chinatown.

Start down on Pennsylvania for some gougeres at Central, walk up 11th street and to the left for a half bowl of pasta at the bar at Tosca, then veer back to the right and up another couple blocks for a great glass of wine and some white tuna crudo at Proof, then take a short trip up 8th to PS7s for a Bolshevik and a plate of tuna sliders, then through the pass by Tech World and to the left to Acadiana for a biscuit and some charbroiled oysters, and then finally finishing your night with some Hazelnut bars at Cordur.. . Oh well, that would have been the best ending to the night, but you'll have to settle for some Belgian beers and a waffle du jour if you're still hungry at Brasserie Beck.

[RWBooneJr]

Raisika to Oyamel to Jaleo. Three continents, one block.

[RWBooneJr]

Or a bistrot tour: Central to Cafe du Parc to Brasserie Beck.

[Tweaked]

I would pass on Tweaked's Jose Andres Penn Quarter tour (all of those places have declined in the last year, in my opinion), and instead go on a little walking tour of PQ and Chinatown.

Start down on Pennsylvania for some gougeres at Central, walk up 11th street and to the left for a half bowl of pasta at the bar at Tosca, then veer back to the right and up another couple blocks for a great glass of wine and some white tuna crudo at Proof, then take a short trip up 8th to PS7s for a Bolshevik and a plate of tuna sliders, then through the pass by Tech World and to the left to Acadiana for a biscuit and some charbroiled oysters, and then finally finishing your night with some Hazelnut bars at Cordur.. . Oh well, that would have been the best ending to the night, but you'll have to settle for some Belgian beers and a waffle du jour if you're still hungry at Brasserie Beck.

Maybe they should go on the Tunks Tour instead

Ceiba

TenPenh

DC Coast

Acadiana

[deangold]

Palena-Dino-Vace

Palena-Dino-Bybylos works too!