The Needle: Corduroy

Reviewed by Todd Kliman , Ann Limpert , Kate Nerenberg , Rina Rapuano

Corduroy

1122 Ninth St., NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202-589-0699

Cuisines:
American, Modern

Opening Hours:

Wheelchair Accessible:
No

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

Price Range:
Expensive

Dress:
Upscale Casual

Noise Level:
Intimate

Reservations:
Recommended

Parking:
Valet

Website:
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Best Dishes
Rouge Vif d’Temps–pumpkin soup; chilled pea soup; snapper bisque; goat-cheese wrapped in frizzled potatoes; salad of duck egg and duck-leg confit; roast chicken with shallots and arugula; pan-roasted duck with fig sauce; pepper-edged bigeye tuna with sushi rice; scallops over garlic mashed potatoes; turbot with warm potato salad; braised pork belly with savoy cabbage; veal rib eye with maitake mushrooms; creamsicle”; chocolate tart with caramelized banana; duck-egg crème brûlée; chocolate and vanilla ice creams; tarte Tatin of local apples; pistachio bread pudding.

Price Details:
Expensive; entrées $20 to $32.

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Reader's Rating:
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Tom Power’s quietly confident, free-of-flash cooking is as good as ever. Ribbons of pasta darkened with squid ink and graced with sweet lump crabmeat and a hint of butter made a dish as special as it was simple. Beautifully fried soft-shell crabs needed only a few drops of aged balsamic vinegar and a bed of wilted greens, and a pleasantly fatty Ivory King salmon was nearly upstaged by a warm, lemony potato salad. Prices have crept up, but a $55 three-course dinner menu feels like a relative bargain.

 

-August 2009