Annie's Paramount Steak House
Address: 1609 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009
Phone: 202-232-0395
Neighborhood:
Dupont Circle, Downtown
Cuisines:
Steaks, American, Breakfast
Opening Hours: Open Sunday through Wednesday 10 AM to 11:30, Thursday 10 AM to 1:30, and through the night Friday and Saturday.
Nearby Metro Stops: Dupont Circle
Price Range: Inexpensive
Dress: Informal
Noise Level: Chatty
Reservations: Not Needed
Best Dishes Steak with salad and french fries; hamburger; scrambled eggs.
Price Details: Steaks, $12.50 to $24.50.
June 2004 Cheap Eats
Three great things about Annie's Paramount Steakhouse, a mostly gay but straight-friendly steakhouse on Dupont Circle's 17th Street dining strip: bargain-priced steaks, breakfast, and great burgers. The steak you get at Annie's is not the USDA Prime, dry-aged steak you'll find at Morton's or the Palm, but it's good quality beef, cooked to order, and at a price that gives you a satisfying dinner for less than the $50-a-couple Cheap Eats limit. Steaks are priced, depending on size, from $12.50 to $24.95. For that you get two sides--it's best to stick with a salad and French fries.Breakfast at Annie's is served daily. It's a hearty three-eggs-plus-meat affair, not a brunch, and Annie's is one of the few places in town where you can order your eggs scrambled soft and have a good chance of getting them that way. Annie's burger, once limited to lunches and weekends but now available anytime, is very good--moist, cooked to order, and accompanied by thick-cut steak fries. If you venture much beyond the steaks, breakfast, and burgers on Annie's large menu, the results are less dependable.
