Now on Resy: Casa Teresa, Cork Wine Bar, Scarlet Oak, and More Local Favorites
From a destination for Spanish food to an award-winning Tex-Mex gem, these are just a few of the beloved Washington D.C. spots that are now bookable on Resy. Right this way.
Note: This list will be updated regularly with new additions each month, so be sure to check back often. For D.C.’s newest restaurant openings, head here.
Casa Teresa Downtown
Newly added!
The beauty of so many traditional Spanish dishes is the alchemy of great ingredients and seemingly simple techniques. But here, mastery elevates the simplest of dishes like pa amb tomàquet, croquetas de jamón, and wood-fired chicken. The wine list and cocktails, like gorgeous goblet-sized gin and tonics, have that same focus and precision.
Cork Wine Bar Logan Circle
Newly added!
Girls’ night, date night, or solo night when only French fries, charcuterie, and a couple of glasses of bubbly rosé will do — this is the spot. There’s enough here for a quick bite or a full meal, a true choose-your-own-adventure night out.
Scarlet Oak Navy Yard
Newly added!
A great stop before or after a Nats game, this Navy Yard local’s haunt has something for everyone, from a foot-long mozzarella stick with marinara to Detroit-style pizza and sushi. It’s sleek but unpretentious, and there’s a great patio for those days when you need it most.
Succotash Prime Penn Quarter
Everything chef Edward Lee touches has a tinge of Southern soul and Korean influences, and his Penn Quarter steakhouse is no different. A perfect night: Pimento hush puppies, a juicy tomahawk for two with blue cheese and furikake sauce, Old Bay mac and cheese, and collard greens with kimchi and country ham. Don’t forget the libations.
Citizens & Culture Silver Spring
This multi-level Silver Spring spot has everything — a retractable roof, a vaulted ceiling dining room, an expansive bar, and glorious patio space — for everyone. The menu spans borders and influences, from crab elote dip to Creole cioppino and smash burgers. Brunch is a happening.
MI VIDA F Street Washington D.C.
What you’re feeling: An industrial D.C. aesthetic with Mexican vibes and that buzzy feeling only agave spirits can give you. What you’re eating: all the guacamole (including one with grapes, blue cheese, and smoked almonds); tacos stuffed with braised pork or grilled steak; and fried churros with chocolate dipping sauce.
MI VIDA Wharf Southwest Waterfront
Toscana Market Cooking Classes Union Market District
If you can’t make it to a cooking class in Italy, this is the next best thing. Grab a friend, plan on drinking some prosecco, and learn the ins and outs of making sauces, pasta, and more. Classes are held at La Cosecha in the Union Market District.
The Grill Southwest Waterfront
There’s a reason this Southwest Waterfront spot hits all the lists. Great wood-fired steaks, excellent martinis, and an expansive patio with views of the Potomac — it’s all true. Dishes aren’t glammed up with extraneous ingredients; they don’t need it. It takes a lot of work to make simple taste (and look) so good.
Ellington Park Bistro Dupont Circle
A night out at the St. Gregory Hotel restaurant might mean escargot in Pernod-scented butter, beef tartare and Belgian endive, and mussels (or steak) frites for dinner, or jumbo lump crab deviled eggs, a brick of brioche French toast, and a perfect French omelet for brunch. The handsome room is perfect for either (or both).
Shanklin Hall Adams Morgan
Because this Adams Morgan Black-owned social club is a gathering space, a listening lounge, a cocktail bar, and an eclectic place to stop for a bite. With good vibes on lock, you cannot go wrong with their selection of pretty delicious things like The Mecca, a blackberry-infused vodka number, a collard green artichoke dip, and one fine burger.
KIYOMI Sushi by Uchi Downtown
We’ll never get tired of a parade of pristine sushi, thoughtfully presented by a master, in an intimate 12-seat setting. Chef Uchi knows exactly what his fans want: monkfish liver with shaved black truffle, hotaru ika with Maine uni, glistening slices of chu-toro and otoro. The list goes on.
Amparo Fondita Dupont Circle
It’s all about the details here. The supple, handmade corn tortillas, either on their own or stuffed with meltingly-good seared fish, lamb barbacoa, or cochinita pibil. The avocado dust on top of your side of black beans. The simple but sleek (and bustling, because it will be) room. Just know that somewhere between the last bites of tres leches cake, you’ll be quietly plotting your next visit.
District Winery Navy Yard
Whether grazing boards overflowing with fruits, veg, meats, and cheeses, or passing around plates of shaved Brussels sprouts salad and blue crab-stuffed arancini, you’ll do it with a view here. Brunch cocktails and challah French toast on the patio hit just right.
Shoe’s Cup and Cork Downtown Leesburg
It’s all about Virginia at this downtown Leesburg joint, set inside a former shoe store. Go-to dishes, from homemade meatballs to four-cheese mac, are best enjoyed on the back patio that’s clearly the place to be on sunny days.
Méli Wine & Mezze Adams Morgan
Here’s a club that’s definitely worth joining: Local zoning laws let Méli serve only the residents of its home building — unless you become a lifetime member by buying a $25 bottle of house wine or the equivalent. And when you dig into the tantalizing Greek menu here, you’ll agree that it’s one of the best investments you’ve ever made.
Beau Thai – Mt. Pleasant Mt. Pleasant
Joining the original location in Shaw, this Mt. Pleasant charmer stands out brilliantly in the thriving D.C. Thai restaurant scene. The family-recipe-inspired fare created by chef Aschara Vigsittaboot is all done superbly, and there are innovations like Thai-style empanadas and house specialties like crispy tilapia with spicy basil sauce.
STK DC Mount Vernon Square
Everybody loves a comeback story. The D.C. outpost of this upscale steak-and-seafood international chain shut down in Dupont in 2016 after only two years … But you can’t keep a good restaurant down, and now it’s back, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, complete with power lunches and Japanese Wagyu, and carnivores couldn’t be happier.
Epic Smokehouse National-Landing
What makes a smokehouse epic? All of the smoked meats, from ribs and pulled pork to thick slabs of prime rib. But there are fun things, too, like Kahlua pig eggrolls and jumbo lump crab cakes. Brunch is pretty bodacious, too.
Pilar DC Cardozo
A little literary lore with your ceviche and steak? The Pilar was Ernest Hemingway’s beloved 1934-vintage fishing boat, and this landlocked tribute to both boat and man sprinkles its menus with Hemingway quotes and serves international dishes with nods to his beloved Cuba — including both a classic Cubano sandwich and a unique jackfruit version.
1789 Restaurant Georgetown
Named for the year Georgetown University was founded, this long-running restaurant from the group behind Clyde’s and Old Ebbitt Grill earns well-deserved classic status for its antique-filled Federalist-era townhouse premises and its 21st-century American-European menu. Don’t miss the escargot croissant with Chartreuse butter and chanterelles. Yes, you read that right.
SHŌTŌ Washington DC Downtown
You’ve never seen anything like this Midtown Center stunner from Zuma’s Arjun Waney) — a dazzling upscale izakaya, with 25-foot wooden-grid ceilings, electric hearths set into a wall of greenery, custom ceramics, volcanic stone, and more, and of course, a treasure-filled menu, ranging from sushi, tempura, and robata dishes to unique potato-chip-shell tacos.
Barrel Capitol Hill/Eastern Market
If you don’t already know this animated Capitol Hill pub-grub mecca, open for almost a decade, what are you waiting for? Chef Walfer Hernandez’s you’ll-want-everything menu ranges from corn dogs to pulled pork sliders to (housemade) tagliatelle carbonara, and the whiskey/whisky list is one of the best in town.
Joselito Casa de Comidas Capitol Hill
You might think you’re in Madrid or Seville when you walk into this animated, casually stylish Capitol Hill Spanish place, with its tile floors, café chairs, marble tabletops, walls crowded with vintage photos, and above all, its menu serving just the kind of food you’d get in Spain, from traditional gazpacho and salt cod fritters to fisherman’s rice.
