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Washingtonian 100 Very Best Restaurants 2024 - #1

Photograph by Rey Lopez.
#1
Shaw
Peruvian
Carlos Delgado elevates his native Peruvian cuisine at this Shaw tasting room—and the caliber of the DC dining scene along with it. The six-course (plus snacks) menu journeys from the coast to the Andes with artistic plates such as kombu-cured scallops showered in leche de tigre snow or a flower-adorned butternut-squash stew hiding sweet bites of Maryland crab. The kitchen sources seafood typically reserved for the best sushi restaurants, and “fish market” add-ons show off an ambitious dry-aging program as well as whole fish sliced to order for preparations both raw and grilled in a wood-burning oven. The upstairs cocktail bar Amazonia gussies up street foods and ceviches alongside the best pisco sours in town.
Price
Very Expensive
Cuisine
Peruvian
Address
920 Blagden Aly NW Washington, DC 20001