The Diner Merry New Year! Here’s to an excellent 2019! I had some time to play with ahead of my train south from DC, so headed for a leisurely breakfast in the Adams Morgan neighbourhood. The Diner is open 24 hours which isn’t always a marker of great quality but it looked to be serving …

12th Street Food Trucks As an antidote to my fine dining exploits, I headed to downtown DC having spotted the previous day that a number of food trucks set up along 12th Street for lunchtime service. With around a dozen or so options to choose from, I had brought a hearty appetite aimed at sampling …

Komi My three nights of fancy DC Michelin dining concluded at Komi. I’d had this one in the diary for a quite a while having read very strong reports when I was initially working out what I might do during my time in the nation’s capital. Komi’s style is a refined Greek-Mediterranean tasting menu. Like …

Old Ebbitt Grill I don’t usually submit myself to massive doses of tourist restaurant but having spent the morning wandering around the hugely impressive monuments of DC I was glad that I’d booked lunch at the Old Ebbitt Grill. DC’s oldest restaurant, it’s bang in the middle of both tourist land and the seat of …

Siren Without planning it to be like this, my time in DC turned into a little Michelin vignette with dinner each evening of my three night stay at a one star place.After truly stellar stuff at Bresca, my middle night was spent at Siren, a seafood restaurant within The Darcy hotel from chefs Robert Wiedmaier …