We hear you, Washington. A good number of you don’t have cars and rely on metro for transportation. So how are you expected to get our Cheap Eats restaurants when a good chunk of them are not close to metro?
Short answer: You’re not. We picked out all of the restaurants around DC that are metro-accessible (only a half-mile walk or less). Google Maps was used to calculate walking distance between metro stations and restaurants, and below, you’ll find a map and list of all 34 Cheap Eats restaurants near a metro station.
Orange line (O), Blue line (B), Silver line (S), Red line (R), Green line (G), Yellow Line (Y)
Rockville (R)
Twinbrook Metro (R)
Bethesda (R)
Dupont Circle (R)
Farragut North (R)
Gallery Place/Chinatown (RYG)
Judiciary Square (R)
Union Station (R)
NoMa-Gallaudet U (R)
Rhode Island Ave (R)
Silver Spring (R)
Wheaton (R)
Navy Yard-Ballpark (G)
Archives/Navy Mem’l/Penn Quarter (YG)
Mt Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center (YG)
Shaw-Howard (YG)
U Street/African-Amer Civil War Memorial/Cardozo (YG)
Columbia Heights (YG)
Prince Georges Plaza (YG)
College Park (YG)
Crystal City (BY)
Spring Hill (S)
Tysons Corner (S)
Ballston-MU (OS)
Virginia Square (OS)
Clarendon (OS)
Courthouse (OS)
Rosslyn (OSB)
Federal Triangle (OSB)
Eastern Market (OSB)
Potomac Ave (OSB)
This article appears in our May 2016 issue of Washingtonian.
Ann Limpert joined Washingtonian in late 2003. She was previously an editorial assistant at Entertainment Weekly and a cook in New York restaurant kitchens, and she is a graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education. She lives in Petworth.
Anna Spiegel covers the dining and drinking scene in her native DC. Prior to joining Washingtonian in 2010, she attended the French Culinary Institute and Columbia University’s MFA program in New York, and held various cooking and writing positions in NYC and in St. John, US Virgin Islands.
