The Needle: Corduroy

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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
Kabocha-squash soup with cheese crisp; red-snapper bisque; duck-egg-and-leg salad; lamb loin with garlic crépinette and creamed spinach; Muscovy duck with fig sauce; chocolate tart with caramelized bananas; house-made ice creams.

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

Reader's Rating:

3 out of 5

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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

Tai Shan - Gaithersburg

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incredible

DCCAT — January 28, 2011 10:39 AM

This restaurant is consistently one of the best in the city. I always eagerly look to see what soup Chef Tom has created because no one does it better. I find the service excellent. Although we go semi-regularly, the staff remembered us after More ...

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Poor, Condescending Service

DcFoodie — August 9, 2010 11:31 AM

The Worst Service ever!We ended up leaving the restaurant before ordering because of the offensive and incompetent staff.It took over 30 min to sit down.We requested our waiter to send us a sommelier to select a proper wine for us but he never More ...

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