Eat Great Cheap 2013There’s no single dish that makes this buzzing Merrifield restaurant so winning. Its enduring appeal is its promise of one-stop shopping. Few restaurants are comfier and more beautiful, provide more attentive service, and send out such consistently well-executed plates, from a picture-perfect shrimp toast to the bountiful vermicelli salad known as bun—all for only slightly more than what you’d pay at T.G.I. Friday’s.
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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.
