Brasserie Beck

Address: 1101 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005

Phone: 202-408-1717

Neighborhood: Downtown

Cuisines: Modern, Breakfast, Belgian

Opening Hours: Open Monday through Thursday 11:30 AM to 11 PM, Friday and Saturday 11:30 AM to 11:30 PM, and Sunday 11:30 AM to 9 PM.

Wheelchair Accessible: Yes

Nearby Metro Stops: Mt. Vernon Square/7th St.-Convention Center, McPherson Square

Price Range: Moderate

Noise Level: Chatty

Reservations: Recommended

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Best Dishes Lamb sausage with lentils; pea soup with veal-cheek meatballs; frites with three mayos; mushrooms and spaetzle with a poached egg; coq au vin; snails; black-currant-and-fig clafoutis.

Special Features:
Wheelchair Accessible, Valet Parking Available

Robert Wiedmaier’s big, brash brasserie is all about beer and Belgian comfort fare. A large bar—popular with lawyers and lobbyists—gives way to a gleaming exhibition kitchen and dining rooms with mahogany booths.

Wiedmaier, who has amassed a restaurant mini-empire in the last few years, has gone back to his Flemish roots here. You’ll even find one of his boyhood culinary triumphs, a Gruyère-spinach omelet, at brunch. The cuisine is shored up with a prodigious list of Belgian brews—Duvel and New Belgium Tart Lychee are among those on tap. There’s a well-thought-out wine list as well, and if you don’t finish a bottle, they’ll reseal it and slip it into a to-go bag.

Don’t miss:Duck confit; beef carbonnade; bacon-and-truffle mussels and fennel-and-chorizo mussels; sautéed skate; fries with curry mayo; chocolate gâteau.

Open: Monday through Friday for lunch and dinner, Saturday and Sunday for brunch and dinner. Moderate.