downtown DC
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Caribbean
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The Obamas visited this cavernous new downtown Caribbean restaurant within weeks of its opening—Lonie Murdock and Darren Hinds, restaurant entrepreneurs from Toronto, are clearly doing something right. Island dishes—such as patties filled with Wagyu oxtail, coconut-enriched cook-up rice with pigeon peas, and supple grilled bara bread with curry chickpeas or goat—are served stylishly in the swank, jewel-toned dining room but never sapped of their soul.
Price
Based on dinner for two, including tax and 20-percent tip:
Expensive: $201 to $299
Locations
1100 15th St NW, Washington DC,
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