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30 Great-Value Dishes
Our critics pick their favorite bang-for-your-buck dishes.
By
Todd Kliman
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Ann Limpert
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Cynthia Hacinli
Published Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Chicken and waffles at Marvin.
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Two grilled-shrimp tacos at Surfside, $9.95 Hanger steak with mashed potatoes and creamed spinach at Ray’s the Steaks, $19.95 Chicken and waffles at Marvin, $16 Silken Shawl Imperial Autumn Rolls filled with pork and prawns at Present, $3.95 Fried-oyster po’ boy with coleslaw at Hank’s Oyster Bar, $15 Sorbillo’s Original, a ricotta-mozzarella-and-salami-filled turnover at Pete’s Apizza, $7.95 Crab masala with jumbo lump crab, onions, and spices, $9.95 at Passage to India Macaroni and cheese for two at Westend Bistro, $10 Adana kebab of skewered ground lamb, house-made harissa, grilled tomatoes, and sumac onions at Zaytinya, $7.50
Pad thai at Nava Thai.
Mini-jars of red and black caviar with house-made blini and crème fraîche at Johnny’s Half Shell, $19.75 Eel kamameshi, glazed eel over rice with four side dishes at lunch at Kotobuki, $10.95 Charcuterie board, which two can share at the bar at Restaurant Eve, $16 Roast-to-order chicken, $14, and truffled cheeseburger, $12, at Palena Cafe Half order of pasta for half the price of a full order at the bar during lunch at Tosca Four lacquered, grilled quail halves with blood-orange slices at Four Sisters, $8 to $9 Bun cha, northern-style grilled, marinated pork with vermicelli noodles at Minh’s, $9.75 Sambusas, $2.75 each, and yebeg wat, $11, at Etete Lamb karahi for two at Ravi Kabob House, $19.99 Pot of mussels for two at Café du Parc, $19.95 Floating Market Noodle Soup for two, $7.95, and crispy mussels with hot sauce, $9.95, at Nava Thai Noodle and Grill Grilled stuffed calamari with green sauce, $7.95, and Margherita pizza, $10.95, at 2 Amys Duck confit with savoy cabbage and roasted beets, $15, and grilled flatiron steak with rapini, $14, at Cork Lamb sausage with lentils at Brasserie Beck, $14 Roast chicken with mustard sauce at Leopold’s Kafe & Konditorei, $18 Boudin blanc, boudin noir, or merguez sausage with braised red cabbage at Mannequin Pis, $12 What are your favorite bargain dishes? Tell us in the comments below.
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This appeared as part of the 100 Very Best Restaurants section in the February, 2009 issue of the Washingtonian.
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Tongue Sandwich at Kabob Bazaar in Clarendon
Any curry from Ravi Kabob (lamb karahi isn’t nearly as good a value or meal)
Kitfo dullet from Habesha Market
Tacos from El Charrito Caminante
Posted by: Mighty Mighty, Feb 19, 2009 03:43:49 PM
Hmm. I dunno, an entire list of great-value dishes and not one Korean dish on the list? I mean, for $9.95 I can go to Gamasot and get a big bowl of comforting seolleongtang and a whole host of banchan to boot.
Heck, just banchan in general makes it many a Korean dish a value!
Posted by: Matt T., Feb 12, 2009 07:42:26 AM
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