Get ready to make some additions to your dining bucket list: High-end Korean steakhouses, intricate tasting menus, craveable Italian — and even a pizza place. These are the restaurants our food critics rated as the 50 Best in Northern Virginia, including our annual Top 10 list.
By Alice Levitt, Dawn Klavon, and Monica Saigal
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Price Key: Entrées = $ 15 and under | $$ 16–25 | $$$ 26–40 | $$$$ 41 and over | * = prix fixe only
Top 10 Restaurants
No. 1: 2941 Restaurant
Falls Church | Modern American | $$$$
Quarter-life crisis? Not this hallowed culinary ground, which first served guests in 2002. Chef Bertrand Chemel, who has himself been in the kitchen since 2008, keeps his restaurant fresh with monthly menu updates that course the planet for both the best ingredients and the most creative techniques.
Tasting menus include vegetarian and meaty options, and diners can exercise their right to choose for all five courses. A celebration of the summer harvest might include a buttery kampachi crudo swimming in marbled tomato-tarragon sauce with cherry tomatoes and chive blossoms, then move along to creamy corn espuma dotted with kernels and pickled chanterelles. It’s topped with peanuts and popcorn for an elevated take on summer snacking.
Prefer to sink your teeth into a simple steak? The rib-eye here is the best you’ll find — raised humanely, cooked to your liking, expertly sauced, and accompanied by crispy potatoes.
After nearly two decades in the kitchen at this art-filled icon, Chemel isn’t even close to running out of tricks up his sleeve. And we won’t ever stop eating it up.
Eat This: Yellow corn-chanterelles, grilled Braveheart Farm rib-eye, Amaretto & Chocolate
No. 2: Nostos
Vienna | Greek | $$$
A flash of tableside flames from sizzling saganaki is every bit as rousing as what you’ll find in Athens.
White curtains billow like sails, conversations drift in half a dozen languages, and servers nudge you toward a glass of crisp Assyrtiko from the restaurant’s delightful Greek wine list.
Begin with the trio of housemade dips — cool dill-sparked tzatziki, smoky eggplant, and creamy Santorini-style fava crowned with diced purple onion — which arrives with slices of freshly baked pita still warm from the oven. Each bite is a postcard from the islands.
Then arrives the standout moussaka, baked and served in its own petite cast iron skillet, where cinnamon-laced beef, eggplant, and potato hide beneath a bronzed béchamel cloud. Finish with paidakia, the chargrilled lamb chops paired with simply grilled asparagus.
At Nostos, consistency is the secret seasoning. Each visit feels like a homecoming, only with better olive oil and a little more sunshine on the plate.
Eat This: Flaming kefalograviera saganaki, skillet moussaka, lamb chops with asparagus
No. 3: The Ashby Inn & Restaurant
Paris | Modern American | $$$$
A meal in idyllic surroundings doesn’t have to be a country-fried affair. The Ashby Inn & Restaurant proves this time and again with its cultivated menu. If the journey to the historic, 19th-century home doesn’t win you over, the locavore cuisine will. Nuanced flavors add depth, creating a meal as special as the setting itself.
Consider the BLT gnocchi, composed of housemade pasta woven with caramelized onions, pancetta, and tomato confit in a decadent Romano cream sauce. Save the olive bread for soaking up the sauce and order the dinner portion to avoid fights over who gets the last bite. Entrées run the gamut, from fragrant Thai coconut-curried halibut to a succulent, herb-crusted rack of lamb.
Mango mousse arrives like a piece of avant-garde art — a dramatic swipe of torched marshmallow, bright droplets of passion fruit gel, and a frothy sphere of whipped mango holding the spotlight. It’s well worth the drive to bucolic Paris, a sophisticated burg that earns its name with every bite.
Eat This: BLT gnocchi, herb-crusted rack of lamb, mango mousse
No. 4: Yume Sushi
Arlington | Japanese | $$$$
Your taste buds do the dreaming at this Arlington gem. A laid-back, mural-dotted vibe pervades here, but what lands on the table is anything but casual. The menu reads like a love letter to excess in the best way. Every bite is a confident “yes,” thanks to luxe ingredients and precision plating that feels almost too pretty to touch. Almost.
Chef Saran Kannasute’s creativity shines in the Monster Trio: a decadent lineup of A5 wagyu with foie gras, scallop with uni, and toro dressed with truffle oil and caviar. The sunomono salad balances clean shrimp with a kiss of citrus and heat. But the dish you’ll be dreaming of is the citrusy ceviche, served with wasabi-flavored nori chips. It is sharp, fresh, and unforgettable.
The space fills fast, the service is gracious, and the whole experience feels like a quiet flex. Come hungry, leave enchanted — and possibly a little spoiled for sushi anywhere else.
Eat This: Monster Trio, ceviche with wasabi chips, sunomono salad with tiger shrimp
No. 5: Seoul Prime
Falls Church | Modern Korean | $$$$
We can all agree: Korean barbecue is delicious. But from bulgogi to soybean stew, it’s not the most creative or varied of cuisines. Unless you get your ’cue at Seoul Prime.
There, the team behind Honest Grill kicks the Korean steakhouse concept up several notches with original creations that taste every bit as fantastic as they sound. Try the heirloom tomato and burrata salad. Dressed in kimchi vinaigrette, tiger-striped tomatoes share space with creamy, oozy cheese and pickled biquinho peppers.
But the beef is still the centerpiece. There are three “tours” and à la carte options. Pick the mid-range prime steak tour that starts with a hulking, dry-aged rib-eye. The four-meat assault of ideally caramelized protein cooked at your table culminates in marinated prime short ribs that melt in sweet delight.
End the meal with a croffle — a buttery, flaky croissant cooked in a waffle iron and topped with vanilla ice cream and berry coulis. There’s no question that this is fine-dining Korean barbecue that stands out in the increasingly crowded field.
Eat This: Heirloom tomato and burrata, prime steak tour, croffle
No. 6: Modan
Tysons | Japanese | $$$$
At this stunner hidden inside the luxury high-rise Heming, drama unfolds in silence. Dry-aged fish dangle behind glass, chefs work with samurai-like focus, and every plate arrives as if summoned from a dream. This is modern Japanese dining at its most polished, and Tysons may never be the same.
The king salmon carpaccio glistens with truffle aioli and sweet onion salsa, each bite capped with crispy shallots for crunch and balance. Dry-aged lamb chops come lacquered in spicy miso, with a dusting of shichimi togarashi and are a marquee item in every way. Save room for dessert. That’s where the magic lingers. Choose between the molten-centered chocolate cake with a vanilla gelato or a towering passionfruit kakigori that hides sweet lychee in its shaved-ice folds.
With attentive service, sleek interiors, and food that entices both visually and on the palate, Modan feels like a quiet celebration. It’s part art show, part sushi reverie.
Eat This: King salmon carpaccio, lamb chops, passionfruit kakigori
No. 7: Ingle Korean Steakhouse
Vienna | Korean | $$$$
Remember the Choose Your Own Adventure book series? Packed with choices that would lead to myriad possible endings, the stories were an eminently satisfying way to make kids read. Ingle Korean Steakhouse is the wagyu-powered equivalent.
It starts with the first sip of water, when your server arrives with a tray of cucumbers, lime, and lemon from which to pick. The six-course prix fixe dinner includes a collection of American wagyu cuts of the day, but from there, you have almost as many options to devour as you did as a book-hungry youth.
Shared appetizers might be steamed mussels marinière, cod roe garlic toast, or a scallion pancake with shrimp, but we encourage trying the sashimi salad, spicy-and-sweet hwe moo-chim. Each diner gets to select their own savory meal, be it beef fried rice, soup, or one of three takes on chilled buckwheat noodles.
But when it comes to the tender meats grilled on your table, to paraphrase Sondheim, loving them is not a choice.
Eat This: Corn cheese, hwe moo-chim, wagyu cuts of the day
No. 8: Carbonara
Arlington | Italian | $$$
As quickly as you can say “red sauce Italian,” most of us already know what our order will be. But while there’s nothing wrong with a craving for fried mozzarella or spaghetti and meatballs, it’s a pity not to take advantage of veteran chef Mike Cordero’s showmanship.
NoVA food obsessives likely already know about the housemade bucatini, spun tableside in a wheel of parmigiana. But since Carbonara’s debut last year, Cordero has continued to break new ground.
Where else will you find chicken parmigiana gnocchi? The Frankenstein of earthly delights features an enormous, flat chicken breast beneath a blanket of melted mozzarella. A server comes to the table and slowly eases a pile of airy gnocchi in vodka sauce on top of the breaded bird. You may only succeed in eating half, but that means more to love as leftovers.
This is one Italian destination where it’s best to keep an open mind and choose the chef’s latest edible innovation.
Eat This: Fritto misto, chicken parmigiana gnocchi, pistachio-ricotta dusted cake
No. 9: Celebration by Rupa Vira
Ashburn | Modern Indian | $$
The crunch of crispy kale. The wet pop of pomegranate arils. The sweet heat of tamarind dressing. The cool relief of tangy yogurt pearls.
The cuisine of Celebration by Rupa Vira is one of stark contrasts. Few dishes embody that better than the self-trained chef’s modern take on kale and palak chaat. From its finely diced apples to its housemade mint chutney, each bite of the salad/snack is compelling.
So is everything else in her lavender-bathed restaurant’s oeuvre. The tandoori salmon is an oversized, meaty filet that’s blistered in the clay oven and presented in a pool of chile and mango sauces. There’s a combination of more than one of each of the flavors, including a buoyant mango foam. A pansy and a pile of salmon roe complete the mouthwatering picture.
Spectacles of desserts are also a must, whether it’s the dry-ice-powered drama of the Celebration Special or the gold-and-rose-petal-bedecked Chocolate Explosion cake. The final contrast? Your lightened mood upon enjoying this NoVA original.
Eat This: Kale and palak chaat, tandoori salmon, Chocolate Explosion cake
No. 10: Local Provisions
Sterling | Modern American | $$
Local Provisions’ strong suit? Pretty much everything. Whether it’s housemade, fluffy Italian country bread with creamy cultured butter, citrus-bright little gem Caesar salad, or the gold-standard fritto misto, the care put into each bite is amply apparent.
Seasonal cocktails delight, while standout dishes like zesty rigatoni Bolognese, topped with a velvety dollop of ricotta, flex the kitchen’s culinary depth. The heavenly lamb burger, a specialty, is served on hearty focaccia much to the joy of meat lovers.
No matter the occasion, the LoPro team tailors the experience, paying hawk-eyed attention to each detail. You may want to order everything, but that just means you’ll salivate for a return visit.
Eat This: Fritto misto, LoPro lamb burger, rigatoni Bolognese
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Agora
Tysons | Mediterranean | $$
Tysons’ glinting glass towers melt away the moment the mosaic lanterns of Agora come into view. Inside, the hum is constant as servers dash, plates clatter, and every table races a strict two-hour clock.
Start the countdown with mezzes. Among them are twin cylinders of chilled watermelon, capped with feta, that rest beside peppery arugula, a bite of July no matter the season. Next, a boat-shaped pide sails in, oozing goat and mozzarella cheeses around bursts of cherry tomato and sticky date. Don’t skip the fried cauliflower tossed with Turkish dried figs and swooshes of tahini.
The star of the show is the Ottoman rice: fragrant grains laced with currants and apricots, crowned with sweet fried shallots and pine nuts. By the time tea glasses clink, you’ll understand the rush.
When you step back out into Tysons, the glass towers feel softer. Agora doesn’t just feed you — it whisks you away.
Eat This: Watermelon-feta mezze, Ottoman rice, fried cauliflower with Turkish figs and tahini
Alias
Warrenton | Modern American | $$$$*
Tiny portions and obscure ingredients can make tasting menus a tough sell for some diners. But the world of multiple prescribed courses doesn’t have to be a chore for less adventurous eaters.
At this Vint Hill treasure, local ingredients are constructed (and deconstructed) into easily lovable monthly menus that might include takes on bruschetta, spaghetti and meatballs (albeit Persian-spiced and made with ground rabbit), and heritage-breed New York strip with garlic butter sauce.
It all happens as diners gather around a chef’s counter where they can watch much of the creativity take flight. There, guests listen to remixes of Bee Gees tunes while they partake in a well-paced meal that’s as relaxed as it is culinarily ambitious. Diners who have an allergy or aversion need only let the team know ahead of time and will be rewarded with a dish of their own. Twelve courses — plus an oatmeal cookie to take home — never felt so comfortable.
Eat This: Maine diver scallop crudo, ginger-crusted Virginia rockfish, “spaghetti and meatballs”
The Black Sheep
Manassas | American | $$$
At NOVA Live in Manassas, a dynamic outdoor music venue, craft brewery, distillery, and casual food trucks come together to create a family-friendly hot spot.
But this beautifully restored vintage barn that blends rustic charm with elevated dining is the property’s crowning glory. Here, the eclectic menu and curated cocktails deliver a whole other level of grown-up fun.
Beneath chandeliers, grilled octopus — charred and drizzled with red-pepper romesco sauce and chimichurri — is a suitable starter. Entrées like dry-aged New York strip are complemented by tangy harissa butter and optional upgrades such as béarnaise sauce. Follow it with espresso-stuffed beignets.
This is a difficult reservation to get, so be sure to book ahead for special occasions. They’ll be made truly singular when you explore NOVA Live after your meal. You’ll find dinner and a show to be eminently chic.
Eat This: Grilled octopus, Caribbean Bibb salad, espresso-stuffed beignets
Café Colline
Arlington | French | $$$
We all wish we had a regular haunt off the Champs Elysées. Here, the golden-hour glow filters through tall windows, lighting up whitewashed walls, café tables, and a bar that hums with regulars sipping French martinis.
Start with the roasted beets and Puy lentils, stacked into a jewel-toned tower and crowned with blue cheese. The heirloom tomato salad, layered with slivers of cucumber and compressed ricotta, is summer dressed for dinner.
But it’s the moules frites that cause the real stir. The black-shelled mussels swim in a white wine and tarragon broth so delectable you’ll guard the bowl from your tablemates. Then comes the loup de mer, seabass blanketed in toasted almonds and floating over tender haricots verts. End your meal with the house-churned vanilla ice cream, kissed with fresh mint and spearmint oil.
Café Colline doesn’t just transport you to another country. It tempts you to stay awhile and return often.
Eat This: Roasted beets, moules frites, loup de mer
Carmello’s
Manassas | Mediterranean | $$$$
It could be said that this 38-year-old restaurant’s greatest asset is consistency. Locals return time and again for upscale cuisine from both Italy and the owners’ native Portugal.
What draws them back? Calamari fritti that arrives lightly battered and accompanied by a tangy marinara. Grilled chicken, jumbo lump crabmeat, and broccolini are partnered with mozzarella-sprinkled, housemade pappardelle. Accented by fresh herbs grown right in the restaurant’s garden, it’s known as pollo princiola (the main chicken).
Another main event is the vieiras — not just buttery scallops as the Portuguese name indicates, but a decadent seafood mixture that also includes plump shrimp, crab, and tender lobster with artichokes. All this maritime magic is piled atop a mountain of housemade capellini flavored by a garlicky white-wine elixir.
Carmello’s delivers it all with aplomb, year in and year out. After meal number one, you’ll plan a return, whether you’re already in the neighborhood or not.
Eat This: Calamari fritti, vieiras, Italian tiramisu
CHĪKO
Arlington & Sterling | Chinese and Korean | $$
Practically as soon as you order them, there are bowls on the table at CHĪKO. But don’t call it fast food. With chefs Scott Drewno and Danny Lee at the helm, this casual, inexpensive local chain boasts James Beard–fueled cred. Indeed, the pair have been nominated by the famous foundation more than once, most recently as outstanding restaurateurs this year.
At the family-friendly NoVA locations, diners can expect big flavor that comes from the chefs’ dual expertise in Chinese and Korean cuisine. Where else can you make a meal of some of the crispiest Korean fried chicken around, paired with pulled lamb and ropy fresh noodles in a Hunan-influenced sauce?
For many chefs, dessert is an afterthought, but the coconut custard — which gets an unusual spin thanks to a shower of spicy gochugaru and lime zest — is worth a trip on its own. Food may come out quickly, but this well-oiled machine makes meals you can feel great about sharing with sophisticated friends.
Eat This: Double-fried chicken wings, cumin lamb stir fry, coconut custard
Chosun Hwaro
Fairfax | Korean | $$$$
There are many beef short ribs on this list. But this is the only restaurant that specializes in them. Including soups and stews, there are seven ways to sink your teeth into one of our favorite cuts here. Order from among the five varieties of galbi, grilled by expert servers beneath advanced hood systems that prevent you from smelling like smoke.
With certified Angus beef sizzling away at the table to the accompaniment of K-pop tunes, Chosun Hwaro splits the difference between high-end and casual, youth-focused KBBQ restaurants. Think of it as something for everyone, even diners who wish to get their meat grilled while they watch the news at the bar.
The best of the flesh is seasoned, boneless Emperor’s Galbi, and the optimal way to experience it all is the Chosun Hwaro Combo. The small version also includes the bone-in Empress Galbi, thinly sliced brisket, cheese-covered gyeran jjim (steamed egg), and bubbling tofu soup.
Should you desire to embark on an all-out short rib feast, bring a big group to try it all. You’ll get to the meat of the matter in no time.
Eat This: Gunmandu, Emperor’s Galbi, gyeran jjim
Clarity
Vienna | Modern American | $$$$
Locals whisper that Clarity is a date fail-safe, and the odds are in their favor. Slide onto a mustard-yellow banquette beneath halo-like crystal chandeliers and you’ll feel the city’s buzz melt away, even if the next table is close enough to borrow salt.
Servers greet regulars by name and steer newcomers toward plates that could double as still-life paintings.
Start with the beet carpaccio, a ruby-and-gold mandala brightened by pomegranate arils and toasted hazelnuts. Follow it with chilled cucumber gazpacho poured tableside over a Maryland-crab salad studded with almonds. Should you surrender to the wild Alaskan halibut, your teeth will be met by a crisp-edged filet crowned with truffle petals and perched on inky lentils that taste like hearth-warm smoke flirting with a salty sea breeze.
Comforting yet polished, Clarity feels like that trusty dress you slip on and remember why you love it — precisely what date night requires.
Eat This: Beet carpaccio, cucumber gazpacho with Maryland crab, wild Alaskan halibut
Ellie Bird
Falls Church | Modern American | $$$
There’s a Michelin man quietly standing on a shelf near Ellie Bird’s open kitchen. That is the only nod to the star that Yuan and Carey Tang’s other restaurant, Rooster & Owl in DC, has held onto for years in the famed guide.
But there’s evidence at every turn: The unfalteringly friendly yet professional service. The attention to detail in the avian-themed environment that even extends to the restrooms. But especially the creative cuisine.
Yuan Tang’s fusion of pho and cheesy French onion soup has quietly been the best version of either in NoVA since its debut in 2023.
The chef and his team never seem to stop coming up with dishes you won’t find anywhere else. A claw-on presentation of grilled Amish chicken fuses the ends of Asia with flavors of sesame oil and spiced yogurt that elevate the bird to new heights of flavor.
Executive pastry chef Corey Jamison, a newer addition, thrills with toasted marshmallow ice cream atop an almost impossibly light chocolate tart with peanut butter crunch.
And every mouthful is Michelin-worthy.
Eat This: Vietnamese French onion soup, grilled Amish chicken, chocolate tart
Elyse
Fairfax | Modern American | $$$$*
Chef Jonathan Krinn, long a fixture of Northern Virginia’s fine-dining scene, has entered his renaissance. At Elyse, he has raised the bar on his own already impeccable standards, delivering a tasting menu so intentional it feels like a memoir written in food.
The monthly tasting menu unfolds like a garden poem. Krinn literally pulls from his own backyard; vegetables like white cucumber and African blue basil are grown just steps away, then plated like edible art. One night, you might encounter heirloom squash with miso ricotta on housemade pain de mie. Alaskan spot prawns might arrive in a pool of zucchini-flower soubise while smoked beef belly lands alongside sweet potato, pickles, and wild mushrooms. Each bite feels rare, and hearing the chef’s open-kitchen laughter makes it all the more intimate.
This meal is a masterclass in storytelling, told one plated chapter at a time.
Eat This: Berkshire pork jowl, Alaskan spot prawns, smoked beef belly
Evelyn Rose
Vienna | Modern American | $$$
There’s a palpable hug-the-room warmth at Evelyn Rose, and it starts with the name: Chef Nick Palermo and co-founder Sam Schnoebelen honor their grandmothers, Evelyn and Rose, who taught them life’s sweetest moments happen when everyone squeezes around the dinner table. That spirit lives on in a dining room framed by exposed-beam rafters and the scent of rosemary focaccia drifting from the open kitchen.
Palermo’s menu is elevated comfort done right. Earth N Eats roasted baby beets arrive jeweled with hearts of palm and clouds of chèvre, brightened by peppery greens. Summer-sweet grilled corn, tumbled with smoky poblano sour cream and goat-milk feta, proves vegetables can steal the show. But it’s the whole-milk ricotta cavatelli — buried under tomato-braised brisket, pork shoulder, and Palermo’s tender meatballs — that turns weeknights into occasions.
What began as a neighborhood haunt has blossomed into a destination where kindred spirits gather over unforgettable plates; Evelyn and Rose would be proud.
Eat This: Roasted baby beet salad, grilled sweet corn, whole-milk ricotta cavatelli
Field & Main
Marshall | Modern American | $$$$
Fact: Field & Main is the only restaurant in our region with a $45, prix fixe menu tailored especially for dogs to enjoy alongside their families. We present this as evidence that the Marshall spot inside a historic home is on a mission to make all who enter (or sit in one of the outdoor cabanas) happy.
Thoughtful servers help diners decide whether to choose from the multicourse Present Menu or just order the burger. In this case, it’s an award-winning combination of local cuts that are smashed onto a potato roll with umami bacon jam, onions, and American cheese. Get it with the crispy potatoes with confit garlic to make it a meal.
But part of the fun of the devotedly farm-to-table restaurant is ordering something new each time. It may be duck in a sauce made from tangy pickled strawberries or a bowl of orzo dotted with lamb-and-sorrel sausage. But when you finish your meal with a freshly baked pan brownie, beside Fido’s peanut butter and banana frozen yogurt, everyone and their dog is bound to leave satisfied.
Eat This: OooMami Smash Burger, confit duck leg, chocolate brownie
Harrimans Grill
Middleburg | Modern American | $$$$
They say that God is in the details. It’s clear that Harrimans’ new chef de cuisine, Bin Lu, formerly of two-Michelin-starred Pineapple & Pearls, and his pastry chef, Mollie Turner, both adhere to the dictum.
Meals begin with a hyper-seasonal amuse-bouche such as a tart filled with Gouda, local peach, and pickled ramps. Bread service is elevated by softened, cultured butter that tastes of the field. It flatters both lightly sour mini baguettes and corn bread that’s brushed with beef tallow and finished with chunky fleur de sel.
Your order will be prepared with just as much care: Think pink-striped agnolotti that burst with eggplant and burrata, atop warm caponata, followed by a lamb saddle rolled in a collard green leaf. It’s delicately plated with lamb confit, a merguez-spiced taste of boudin, and a drizzle of harissa jus that’s poured tableside.
The details are alive and well in every bite, but also in caring service and a barn-inspired room that looks onto the Salamander Middleburg’s outdoor action. Here, the mastery of every component is indeed a form of enlightenment.
Eat This: Slow-roasted lamb saddle, sweet corn parfait, olive oil honey cake
Harvey’s
Falls Church | American | $$$
Look past the plastic tablecloths and directly to the fire blazing in the oven at the back of the restaurant. You are here for flame-caressed vittles, not ambience. However, sit down for a meal at casual Harvey’s and expect the kind of ingredient-obsessed service you’ll find at a fine-dining restaurant.
Focus your attention on the fire-roasted duck breast — the skin is blistered into buttery chicharrónes atop blushingly tender flesh. Salt would be enough, but you’re treated instead to pineapple–ancho chile glaze that levels up the experience with not-too-sweet spice. The peach risotto beneath, with its al dente grains, also sidesteps the sugary mess it could have been with gooey, cheesy flair.
“How is the bread pudding?” you ask the server. His answer, “Intimidating,” is accurate. There’s plenty of the flaky peach-bourbon dessert to share.
With its locavore ethos and creative scratch cooking, Harvey’s is a date night for diners who appreciate stellar cuisine, no need for frills.
Eat This: Fried calamari, fire-roasted duck breast, bread pudding
Joon
Vienna | Persian | $$$$
Most of us probably consider a Persian kebab a not-so-guilty pleasure, a quick treat when we don’t feel like cooking. But for decades, it’s been Najmieh Batmanglij’s raison d’être to prove that the food of her homeland is something far more refined than marinated meat on a skewer.
The famed cookbook author combines her powers with those of DC chef Chris Morgan in a warren of rooms that delight with their collection of colors — and the flavors presented within. Take, for instance, the Persian cucumber salad, an assemblage of pomegranate, pistachio, feta, and mint that comes together in a symphony of loveliness.
You could have one of several kebabs, but the grilled rockfish with sour-orange-and-parsley beurre blanc is a stunning fusion of French and Iranian influences. The crisp-skinned fish is topped with jewel-like smoked trout roe, then paired with crunchy-topped rice flavored with dill and meaty fava beans.
Joon is Batmanglij’s world, and we’re lucky to be invited to join her, especially if that invitation means a bite or two of rich chocolate and kataifi pie.
Eat This: Persian cucumber salad, grilled rockfish, chocolate and kataifi pie
L’Auberge Chez François
Great Falls | French | $$$$*
Far fewer of us have visited Strasbourg than Paris. Fewer still have traveled to Obernai, the small city on the Alsatian wine route where François Haeringer was born in 1919. But more than 100 years later, Northern Virginia diners are still treated to a taste of Germany-bordering Alsace in the name of the great chef.
His son Jacques now leads the restaurant in a culinary ballet that begins from the moment guests arrive at the maître d’ stand and ends with housemade truffles that come many mouthfuls after diners have achieved satiety.
This is especially true if they order La Choucroute Royale Garnie à L’Alsacienne, an artful pile of Teutonic sauerkraut inlaid with cured pork belly, snappy sausages, duck confit, and melting foie gras.
The prix fixe — comprised of eight courses if you count touches like addictive garlic bread and a sorbet palate cleanser — is far cheaper than a trip to northeastern France, but for its duration of a few relaxed hours, it’s every bit as fulfilling.
Eat This: Crêpe à la ciboulette, La Choucroute Royale Garnie à L’Alsacienne, tarte au chocolat
Magnolias at the Mill
Purcellville | American | $$$
Embrace history and feel free to dress casually in this expansive restaurant inside a renovated, circa-1905 grain mill. Back then, all meals in Purcellville were farm-to-fork.
Consider ordering up a selection of appetizers to share, maybe a wagyu burger and beer, or the savory local quattro carne pizza. Fancier fare is on the menu, too. For a special occasion, try the creamy pasta with beef tenderloin tips or flaky, almond-crusted trout.
Fresh, regional products from local purveyors include mushrooms from Leesburg, cheeses from Middleburg, and poultry from Warrenton. It allows diners to taste history in a most compelling way, with the flavor of our local terroir dressed either up or down.
Eat This: Beef tenderloin-tip pasta, local quattro carne pizza, almond-crusted trout
Maharani Palace
Herndon | Indian | $$
At Maharani Palace, the drama begins before the first bite. A towering golden peacock greets you at the entrance, chandeliers twinkle above jewel-toned booths, and ornate umbrellas float like parasols overhead. It’s part restaurant, part royal fantasy, and completely worth the spectacle.
The menu is just as theatrical, offering a tour of India’s culinary map. Start with the gol gappa, crisp puris filled with garbanzos, potatoes, and sweet chutneys, served with spiced water that jolts the palate in the best way. Move on to the coconut machi curry, composed of delicate cod bathed in coconut milk, curry leaves, and mustard seeds. It is fragrant, silky, and deeply satisfying. The bhindi do pyaza is another standout, where okra sings alongside caramelized onion and chat masala.
Come with friends. Come hungry. It’s a sensory spectacle from start to finish, with you cast as the star.
Eat This: Gol gappa, coconut machi curry, bhindi do pyaza
Mama Chang
Fairfax | Chinese | $$
Family restaurant? Many gourmets want nothing to do with those two perfectly acceptable words when they’re lumped together.
But hold on.
This is no Chili’s. You might see children speeding through the dining room, but consider it part of the theme. Mama Chang is bound by the love of three generations of celebrity chef Peter Chang’s family, but also by cuisine that will placate sophisticates. No less than The Inn at Little Washington’s chef Patrick O’Connell has said that he goes out of his way to sink his teeth into the pan-Chinese vittles here.
The best eats on offer are chile-spiked dishes from Hunan and Sichuan, but don’t miss hand-pulled noodles for a homestyle bite that tastes like a grandmother’s kitchen. Whether or not your grandmother had the patience to make her own pasta for your gatherings, Mama Chang is proof that “family restaurant” is not a cursed phrase.
Eat This: Scallion bubble pancake, Ganghood fried chicken, three pepper beef tenderloin
Nue: Elegantly Vietnamese
Falls Church | Vietnamese | $$$
Slip past the main doorway and you’re swallowed by violet — plush chairs, floral murals, even the napkins glow purple. It is as if Monet had opened a supper club on Saigon’s edge.
The menu is equally kaleidoscopic. Every dish has its own suggested cocktail, and the kitchen leans into seasonal whimsy.
Begin with chile oil wontons, silk-thin parcels of Gulf shrimp and pork that bob in a sweet-heat pool so addictive you’ll want a second round. The golden soft-shell lands next. The crab, cloaked in banh xeo batter, is flash-fried and then doused tableside with a tamarind sauce that makes the herbs beneath sing. Save just enough room for the ca phe tres leches cake, a Vietnamese-coffee sponge crowned with salted-egg buttercream that tastes like tiramisu took a trip to Hanoi.
Nue is pure, playful poetry like a garden party for the senses that leaves you plotting your next violet-hued escape even before the check arrives.
Eat This: Chile oil wontons, golden soft-shell crab, ca phe tres leches
Ometeo
Tysons | Tex-Mex | $$$
In Mexican cuisine, it’s all about the sauce, or shall we say, salsa. And though Ometeo is staunchly Tex-Mex, the same can be said for Tysons’ tile-adorned landmark. Meals begin with freshly fried, complimentary chips (made from heirloom corn, naturally) with zippy salsa verde and tomato-based salsa ranchera, and the flavors explode from there.
Fried cauliflower, with the potential to become pub grub, is instead an elevated showcase for the sophistication of the kitchen team. That’s because the battered bites combine the nutty flavors of hot sesame salsa macha and liltingly sweet mole almendrado, a complex ode to the humble almond.
Ometeo also has a house mole, which dresses a spice-rubbed Cornish hen with a deep, dark concoction that sings with cinnamon and chocolate. The poultry dish is paired with brilliantly seasoned basmati rice, an unusual accompaniment for Mexican food, but one that lovingly brings South Asia to the party.
The dulce de leche–sweetened tres leches, with its trio of milks poured tableside, is enhanced by the sauces that caress the cake, too. Even at a fancy French restaurant with a saucier schooled in the work of Escoffier, you won’t find a better collection of liquid love.
Eat This: Fried cauliflower, pollito con mole de la casa, tres leches
Osteria Marzano
Alexandria | Italian | $$$
You might find yourself trotting confused through an office building in search of Osteria Marzano. But stay the course, and you will be rewarded with an optimally seared, medium-rare filet mignon.
Atop its crisped edges is a raviolo of near-identical dimensions beneath shaved black truffle. Get out your steak knife. Cut in and the al dente pasta oozes with cheesy cacio e pepe sauce. You may be accustomed to it on pasta, but it’s even better on a tender steak. On the side, Parmesan-covered fries are made eminently moreish by a side of red-wine demi-glace.
By the time you finish with a Nutella pizza that’s topped with so many buoyant mini marshmallows it feels like it will float away like a hot air balloon, you’ll be utterly won over. With its unusual creations that await in an office building, this is the definition of a hidden gem.
Eat This: Arancini, filetto al cacio e pepe, Nutella pizza
Padaek
Arlington | Lao | $$
The first thing you notice at Padaek is the mural of hibiscus and orchids tumbling across the wall like a Laotian garden in full bloom. The second is the energy from tables packed with diners.
Chef Seng Luangrath builds her menu around comfort and memory. Crispy Lao chive cakes arrive warm and herb-packed, sharpened by tamarind sauce. Garlic chicken wings, sticky and crackling, are impossible to resist. Kao pad brings fried rice studded with basil and peppers, while the crispy blue catfish, bathed in a chile-herb sauce, anchors the table. Service is quick and gracious, the kind that keeps the evening moving without ever rushing you.
Then comes dessert: Mango sticky rice draped in coconut cream, sesame seeds glinting on top. Like the mural at the door, it leaves you with brightness, warmth, and a reason to come back.
Eat This: Lao chive cakes, catfish stir-fry, mango sticky rice
Rice Paper
Falls Church | Vietnamese | $$
You’ll spot the line before the sign. Tucked inside Eden Center, Rice Paper rarely has an empty table — and for good reason. For more than a decade, this casual spot has been dishing out fresh, flavorful Vietnamese fare to loyal diners.
Start with the coconut salad, a tangle of young palm, shrimp, pork, and herbs that eats like the hottest season on a plate. The coconut curry, layered with tofu, pineapple, and a peanut crunch, balances sweetness and spice with each bite. And the sizzling stir-fried chicken in lemongrass and chile sauce packs just enough heat to keep things interesting, especially when chased by spoonfuls of fragrant jasmine rice. When the seasonal mango sticky rice shows up on the menu, trust that dessert isn’t optional.
The servers are swift, and the vibe is unpretentious. At Rice Paper, the line outside is simply proof you’re in the right place.
Eat This: Coconut salad with shrimp and pork, tofu coconut curry, lemongrass chile chicken
Roberto’s Ristorante Italiano
Vienna | Italian | $$$$
When Roberto Donna and his wife, Nancy Sabbagh, opened their first restaurant in Vienna, the goal was to create an eatery the neighborhood would love. Three years on, the bustling dining room proves they’ve succeeded in that goal.
But Donna also said that he wanted to bring back guéridon service. With a cooking station wheeled to nearly every table, they’ve mastered that art, too. At Roberto’s Ristorante Italiano, it’s almost a sin not to order the fettuccini alla parmigiana.
The fresh pasta is twisted and turned — with a bit of the water in which it was boiled — in a wheel of aged parmigiana. The al dente result is George Clinton–level funky, creamy, and all-around pleasurable.
Don’t skip dessert. The dome of chocolate-and-hazelnut-flavored semifreddo all but melts into its pistachio cream sauce. It’s so intensely nutty, it nearly skims into bitterness.
Yes, Roberto’s is beloved by the neighborhood. But an everyday neighborhood restaurant? It’s miles above it.
Eat This: Pancetta di maiale croccante, fettuccini alla parmigiana, semifreddo di gianduia
Ruthie’s All-Day
Arlington | Southern | $$$
Step inside Ruthie’s and you’ll feel like you’ve been invited to someone’s home. Not just any home, but one where the brisket is legendary and the midcentury charm is effortlessly cool. Housed in a former 1950s ice cream shop, this all-day diner hums with the joy of comfort food reimagined, from its citrusy mocktails to its smoke-kissed meats.
Start with the deviled eggs. They are whipped until silky and topped with garlic croutons that crackle with flavor. The brisket is fork-tender and deeply smoky, served with pickled cucumbers and fluffy milk bread. For sides, the hand-punched fries arrive hot and herb-dappled, and the mac and cheese is the kind you’ll remember long after the plate is clean.
Whether you stop by for a quick lunch or settle in with a garden sipper, Ruthie’s wraps you in comfort and sends you on your way feeling full and cared for.
Eat This: Deviled eggs, smoked brisket, Ruthie’s mac and cheese
Sabores Tapas Bar
Arlington | Spanish | $$
An oasis in the bustle of Arlington, Sabores is a colorful, cozy escape where Spanish music sets the tone, and small plates steal the show. It’s the kind of place where you’ll want to linger with friends, a pitcher of sangria, and a table full of tapas. The space is casual but artful, with honey-hued lighting, geometric tilework, and pops of floral color.
The bacon-wrapped dates arrive crisp and smoky, perched on honey aioli like they know they’re irresistible. Garbanzos con espinacas (a Moorish-style chickpea stew with spinach and tomato) is comfort in a bowl. The mejillones al vapor (mussels in sofrito and white wine) are deeply flavorful and served with charred bread for sopping up every last drop.
Sabores is a mood. This is the kind of spot that invites laughter, lingering, and maybe one more glass of sangria before you head out.
Eat This: Dátiles con tocino, garbanzos con espinacas, mejillones al vapor
The Salt Line
Arlington | Seafood | $$$
Looking for a restaurant that brings a lot to the table? Fresh Chesapeake oysters start an ample meal at The Salt Line. The plump, briny beauties are presented on ice with all the right accompaniments. Pimiento crab dip is tangy, indulgent, and sized for sharing, especially paired with zesty Old Bay–seasoned crab chips. Crispy, maple-Sriracha-glazed Brussels sprouts won’t last long — have a fork ready for action.
The flaky rainbow trout, set atop a bed of fennel and spring-onion soubise with chewy farro, is a refined, health-conscious entrée choice. Heartier appetites will judge the Portuguese stew to be a highlight. The generous medley of mussels, clams, and fresh fish swims in a fragrant, fennel-kissed broth. Finish strong with sugar-dusted Boston cream doughnuts, delivered with silky vanilla diplomat cream and luscious fudge sauce. It’s a raft of deliciousness that will leave you and your table more than full.
Eat This: Portuguese stew, fried Brussels sprouts, Boston cream doughnuts
Semifreddo Italian Cuisine
Manassas | Italian | $$$
The signature dessert may be in the name here, but diners are rewarded with far more than sweets if they visit this workaday Manassas strip center in search of savory Italian fare. Here, chef-owner Franklin Hernandez plies his trade in the open kitchen with equal skill given to every course.
The grilled Caesar, known as the Romana salad, features lightly blackened leaves that have kissed fire. The heads of romaine are accompanied by unusually light Caesar dressing, oversized grill-marked croutons, more than its share of Parmesan, and sweet biquinho peppers.
Housemade pasta is a natural choice, but don’t overlook meat and seafood dishes. The bistecchina con funghi features a New York strip flavored with wild mushrooms and paired with garlicky spinach and cheesy polenta.
If you’ve already had your fill of the eponymous semifreddo, the chocolate cake (torta di cioccolato) boasts layers of both milk and dark chocolate. Yes, the sweet stuff is worth a visit, but you may not have room for it after a meal full of Hernandez’s other delights.
Eat This: Grilled Romana salad, bistecchina con funghi, torta di cioccolato
Sense of Thai
Ashburn & Chantilly | Thai | $$
In the decade since this beloved purveyor of hot stuff first opened, Northern Virginia has grown discernably bigger and tastier. Sense of Thai debuted on this list in 2016. Today, with additional locations in South Riding and Bethesda, our palates tingle as much as ever just thinking about its spicy salads, creamy curries, and laudable devotion to innovation.
To start with the bolan larb gai is to ignite one’s mouth for an explosive meal. The minty minced chicken salad in lime-chile dressing may necessitate a few sips of Thai iced tea or a mini daiquiri shot, but that’s part of the fun.
Whatever the season, it’s smart to order a steamy bowl of brothy noodles. Is the best of these coconut-flavored lamb khao soi or pillowy braised pork in sweet-and-sour tom yum broth? It’s up to you to decide, so order both. It’s the perfect way to celebrate 10 years of filling your senses with Sense of Thai.
Eat This: Bolan larb gai, green curry, braised pork ramen
Sfoglina
Arlington | Italian | $$$
“Happiness is a bowl of pasta made with love,” chef Fabio Trabocchi has said. At his homage to handmade noodles, the word “lust” may be just as appropriate for diners. As prettily herb-topped as they are, his dishes are a deeply visceral experience.
Provolone garlic bread oozes with melted butter at first bite, as the haystack of grated Parmesan on top fuses to the crunchy, allium-suffused loaf. Get it with the shareable-sized gnocchi. The velvety-plush potato dumplings all but disappear in a sauce that’s dotted with cheesy mini meatballs, fennel-redolent Italian sausage, salty pancetta, and hearty cubes of braised beef. The gigantic bowl empties with embarrassing speed, so get more than one pasta to ensure that there will be leftovers.
Even the tiramisu, with its intense, coffee-soaked bitterness, bests what you’ll find at other Italian restaurants. Sure, it was made with love, but your passionate drive for another bite (Dare we say “gluttony”?) is as sinful as the carb-filled meals served here.
Eat This: Provolone garlic bread, gnocchi Sunday sauce, Sfoglina tiramisu
Stracci Pizza
Alexandria | Italian | $$
Really? A pizzeria on the 50 Best list? Yes, really.
Stracci is no mere pizza joint. Ingredients are hyper-local and uber-seasonal. The dough ferments for 72 hours and the stracciatella cheese — for which the restaurant is named — is pulled by hand.
What started as a food truck is now a bona fide destination where you’ll likely need to wait for a table. Once seated, you’ll be greeted by well-informed servers but order through a QR code.
The seasonal salad is a must, especially one summery mix of greens with juicy cherries, pistachios, creamy goat cheese, pickled onions, and garlicky saba vinaigrette. Special pizzas change more than once a week. Hope for the corn carbonara, which adds local sweet corn to the crunchy Roman-style dough, along with salty cured pork cheek, egg yolk, and blobs of cream-oozing stracciatella.
But even the mainstays are always fresh. The Brooklyner features pepperoni and sausage atop tomatoes and fresh basil, with a hint of Calabrian chile and honey for a spicy-sweet delight. Seasonal desserts like blackberry granita will delight, but so will the concentrated flavors of the tiramisu.
This is one pizzeria that more than earns its place on any best list.
Eat This: The Brooklyner, seasonal salads, tiramisu
The Study
Alexandria | Mesoamerican Fusion | $$$
Set inside a jewel box of a Federalist-style townhouse, The Study glows like a scholar’s salon. Slate‑blue walls, candlelit tables, and a gauzy pendant lamp set the hushed mood, but chef Tomas Chavarria’s plates speak loudest.
Begin with cevichito, silky cubes of cured bluefin tuna crowned with cucumber, radish, and puffed amaranth, ready to scoop onto whisper-thin cassava chips. Break bread — literally — with the bread and aged butter board. Its warm, housemade bread and fresh tortillas arrive with a caramel-tinged panela butter that could double as dessert. Still, save room for chef’s magnum opus, the cured duck breast. Mole-lacquered and blushing rose, it arrives over earthy baby-beet purée with a peppery duck jus. It is proof that, here, duck can be both decadent and tender.
Linger to the tune of live piano drifting from the bar, and let the servers’ gentle pacing make the evening feel like an intimate masterclass in modern Mesoamerican comfort.
Eat This: Cevichito, bread and aged butter, cured duck breast
Thompson Italian
Alexandria & Falls Church | Italian | $$$
You’ll admit it without hesitation or embarrassment: You made a reservation at Thompson Italian for the carbs. Before the freshly made pasta, there’s the free focaccia, so indulgently oily that it leaves a rectangular print on your plate when it’s gone.
But have you tried the salad? Chef-owners Gabe and Katherine Thompson are masters of flavor, and while many of their greatest works are noodle-based, their medium is local produce.
It stands to reason that a summer melon salad would be memorable. Balled honeydew, cantaloupe, and watermelon, along with slices of cucumber, a honey-lime vinaigrette, whipped feta, jalapeños, mint, and crumbly olive “granola” conspire to make you salivate even after it’s gone.
Fruity desserts like mixed berry tiramisu and blackberry upside down cake are Katherine’s domain, and they’re just as fresh, seasonal, and intensely flavored.
Yes, order a bowl or three of creamy, truffled mushroom mafaldine. But don’t skimp on salad — or sweets.
Eat This: Summer melon salad, mafaldine, mixed berry tiramisu
Trattoria Villagio
Clifton | Italian | $$$
Even the best restaurants often have a weak link or two, but we dare you to find one here. In the quaint hamlet of Clifton, this inviting Italian spot exudes warmth and charming Mediterranean flair.
Gracious service in a setting that bursts with character is a sign of good things to come. From the first bites of focaccia dipped in olive oil, the menu delivers a well-curated celebration of Italian favorites, enhanced by offerings from a tempting raw bar.
Lightly dressed Caesar salads and crispy calamari with housemade marinara are formidable preludes for standout plates like rustic baked meatballs, Asiago-stuffed gnocchi, and tangy lobster-filled ravioli. The seven-layer dark chocolate cake, draped in caramel sauce, offers a decadent finale.
Clifton’s welcoming, small-town setting only enhances the home-style appeal here. And as you leave, you’ll note that there was nary a hiccup to an evening of la dolce vita.
Eat This: Baked meatballs, stuffed gnocchi, seven-layer chocolate cake
Trio Grill
Falls Church | Modern American | $$$
Mouthwatering cuisine and noteworthy hospitality in a tranquil setting? Sounds like the restaurant triple crown.
Gems like zesty garlic shrimp bathed in citrus and white-wine butter, served with rustic grilled bread, impress right out of the gate. Dreamy dayboat scallops atop sweet corn with roasted mushrooms, tender filet mignon enriched by Chianti jus, and soy-glazed Chilean sea bass paired with silky carrot-ginger purée are all noteworthy entrée options.
Bourbon peach cobbler, generously partnered with vanilla ice cream, is brought by attentive servers to end an enchanting evening that’s accompanied by live piano music. With its triptych of outstanding service, exceptional cuisine, and inviting ambience, Trio Grill is a winner.
Eat This: French onion soup gratinée, pan-seared dayboat scallops, Bourbon peach cobbler
Trummer’s
Clifton | Modern American | $$$
The menu at Trummer’s says, “An American Bistro.” But is it? Your pair of thinly pounded pork schnitzels with warm, dill-riddled potato salad might suggest otherwise, especially if you get it with a side of cheesy buttermilk spätzle.
Yes, co-owner Stefan Trummer leaves the imprint of his early life in Austria, but executive chef Zack Ridenhour is a Virginia native. His melting pot approach includes nods to Europe, but you’ll find them alongside dishes like smoked eel with pressed crispy rice and seared scallops flavored with sumac and pomegranate molasses.
The restaurant’s famous rotisserie leaves chicken with a crisp, paper-thin skin, but it’s the chef’s additions of spicy garlic-honey jus, truffly orzo mac and cheese, and sweet carrots that make it pure American comfort.
The restaurant is, in fact, the best of America, with influences from every American, whether they brought wasabi, chile crisp, or lingonberry jam to the party.
Eat This: Badger Flame beets, Joyce Farm chicken, Chocolate & Lavender
Tuscarora Mill
Leesburg | American | $$$
Tuskie’s, as it’s known to locals, is a perennial on this list. Year in and year out, we write about how the large menu has something for everyone. But there’s no greater bounty to be had within the historic mill’s walls than its Sunday buffet brunch.
From feather-light, eggy cinnamon French toast to tender fried chicken to a table piled with thoughtful miniature desserts, it’s possible to not only have a varied meal here, but to have breakfast, lunch, and dinner in one.
Make jovial small talk with the chef manning the omelet station as he packs garlicky spinach, sweet red peppers, and crisp bacon into your couture culinary creation. He’s also responsible for slicing the grill-marked steak that somehow remains juicy beneath its heat lamp.
The pièce de résistance is a chafing dish filled with Tuskie’s iconic butterscotch bread pudding. Consider it a personal challenge to eat as much as possible. After all, there are so many other options to try.
Eat This: Omelet station, grain salad, butterscotch bread pudding
Vermilion
Alexandria | Modern American | $$$$
There’s a typical ratio: The more upscale the meal is, the fussier it gets. But any mathematical equations we might use to prove it are broken at Vermilion. Here, the regional cuisine may travel swiftly from farm to fork, but the preparations are resolutely uncomplicated.
The fork-tender slow-cooked beef rib, for example, is served in a sweet-and-sour blackberry glaze. Next to it is a shaved fennel salad, bright as a cloudless day, punctuated by pistachios and red chiles. That’s it.
Amish chicken is presented with softened peppers and shell beans and a swipe of creamy saffron aioli. A dessert of dense chocolate cremeux with fresh peaches gets a nudge toward the savory with sea salt and olive oil.
In the candlelit brick interior of this historic home, you won’t need a math degree to prove that simplicity can be just as enticing as a lavishly baroque tasting menu.
Eat This: Country ham bruschetta, slow-cooked beef short rib, dark and milk chocolate cremeux
Wren
Tysons | Japanese | $$
Don’t be fooled by its lobby setting inside The Watermark Hotel: Wren is anything but an afterthought.
What seems at first like a buzzy perch for cocktails and conversation quickly turns into a revelation once the plates begin to arrive. Sleek interiors, a lively bar, and plush seating set the stage for Japanese flavors served with just enough whimsy to keep things fun.
The Hamachi carpaccio is a showstopper, with buttery yellowtail layered over avocado and lifted by a warm jalapeño-citrus soy that lingers on the palate. Sweet corn kaki-age tempura, a tumble of kernels fried crisp and dipped in soy dashi, is playful and addictive. Then come the puffy pork belly bao buns, stuffed with slow-braised meat, cucumbers, and herbs.
By the time the moist miso black cod arrives, paired with tiny sweet peppers and sesame-dressed green beans, it is clear that Wren is no ordinary hotel restaurant.
Eat This: Hamachi carpaccio, pork belly bao buns, miso black cod
Feature image of 2941 by Rey Lopez
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