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100 Very Best Restaurants: #59 – Osteria Morini

Written by Washingtonian Staff | Published on February 12, 2020
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Head to Osteria Morini for a beer and dinner paired with their delicious pastas (above). Photograph by Scott Suchman

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Michael White’s riverside restaurant is most glorious in summer, but the cozy, brick-walled dining rooms are charming in winter, too. Order the salumi board—we go straight for the pork-belly terrine, 20-month-aged prosciutto, and savory Parmesan gelato. For pastas, we gravitate to truffled ricotta ravioli and the flat rounds known as corzetti, here served with duck ragu. Another wintry attraction: the satisfying red-wine-braised short ribs with gremolata. Expensive.

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