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Gemini

Photograph courtesy of Gemini
Dupont Circle
Mediterranean
This natural-wine store from former Komi owners Johnny Monis and Anne Marler serves unfussy but impeccable Greek-ish small plates and some of the area’s best pastas. The pastas are available only in the standing-room shop, but we’ll happily forgo a chair for gnocchi-like gkogkes cloaked in sun-dried-tomato butter or macaronia cacio e pepe with a lacy fried egg. A separate carryout menu offers Monis’s sourdough pizza and pints of cult-favorite Happy Ice Cream.
Price
Based on dinner for two, including tax and 20-percent tip:
Moderate: $101 to $200
Locations
1509 17th St NW, Washington DC, 20036