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The Needle: April 2011
Reviewed By Kate Nerenberg
Comments () | Published April 1, 2011
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Ripple
Address: 3417 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20008
Phone: 202-244-7995
Neighborhood: Cleveland Park
Cuisines: Modern, American
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Price Range: Moderate
Noise Level: Chatty
Reservations: Recommended
Best Dishes Glazed pork belly with tuna and a quail egg; sweetbreads with mushrooms and kale; duck breast with peaches and fennel; buttermilk doughnuts; cookies and milk.
Price Details: Starters and snacks $3 to $8, entrées $14 to $19.
Special Features:
Wheelchair Accessible

Restaurants evolve. For the Cleveland Park wine bar Ripple, that’s meant growing in both number of seats and quality. What was a roller-coaster menu is now a solid lineup of smartly composed plates. Pork rinds come out of the fryer crunchy and greaseless; sirloin with a beef-cheek-stuffed raviolo is luscious; and charcuterie, including aged Benton’s prosciutto and a smooth chicken-liver mousse, is paired with a sharp house-made mustard. The growing pains have yielded an excellent restaurant.

This article appears in the April 2011 issue of The Washingtonian.  

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