Dropping off daughter at college need some recs for dinner in DC or Silver spring or Bethesda

[mboxermd]

Looking for good food, fun ambiance and not too expensive - all cuisines except considered but would prefer mediterranean.

[dining with doc]

how about Jimmy John's in college park?
seriously, go to Two Amy's off Wisconsin on Macomb near the national cathedral or Comet Ping Pong Pizza on Conneticut ave near the zoo for great wood burning stove adult pizza
go to Jaleo in Bethesda for tapas
go to Grapeseed in Bethesda for small plates and good wine
go to Mia's Pizza in bethesda for wood burning stove adult pizza
go to Matchbox (where you tried at graduation last year) in chinatown
Go to Nava Thai in wheaton
go to Victoria Gastropub in columbia

-----
Two Amys
3715 Macomb St NW, Washington, DC 20016

Nava Thai Restaurant
11315 Fern St, Silver Spring, MD 20902

Grapeseed
4865 Cordell Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814

Comet Ping Pong
5037 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008

Jimmy Johns
330 John Carlyle St Ste 140, Alexandria, VA 22314

[mboxermd]

Dining with doc you are the best as always!!!

[GraydonCarter]

Ten minutes down Wisconsin from Bethesda is Morty's deli.

How does it compare with Krupin's?

[DanielK]

They are one and the same, and haven't been good in many many years.

[howardl]

Jaleo in Bethesda has never failed to please. Ray's the Classics in Silver spring gets good writeups, but I think you need a reservation well in advance. (And right in college park -- if that's where you are headed -- there's a burger king and 12 sandwich shops.)

-----
Ray's the Classics
8606 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910

[startsev]

Agora in DC is similar to Zaytinya. excellent small plates. cool atmosphere.

-----
Zaytinya
701 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

[axelhoward]

Lebanese Taverna is good and so is Neyla in Georgetown

[woodleyparkhound]

Zaytinia is good for Mediterranean. All cuisines except what considered?

[mboxermd]

Oh sorry except Ethiopian! We had it the last time in DC and really disliked the food! We have been to Zaytinia and would go back but they are booked - anything other restaurants like Zaytinia in DC?????

[woodleyparkhound]

You might try the Cafe Divan (Turkish) on Wisconsin. Charming location, good food, very reasonable prices.

Just curious, where did you eat Ethiopian?

-----
Cafe Divan
1834 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20007

[mboxermd]

It was in Georgetown I think I blocked out the name it was so bad but thanks for the other recs.

[MikeR]

Probably Zed. That's the one all the cab drivers recommend to the tourists. It gets almost no good words here.

There's another discussion here about Ethiopian food that took a bend along the path that if someone was eating Ethiopian for the first time and didn't go to the best restaurant, he might be turned off forever. Was that you? ;)