1789 Restaurant & Bar

"This 50-year-old restaurant near Georgetown University draws from its upper-crust neighborhood of media types, socialites, politicians, and corporate execs." Full review

"Chef Anthony Lombardo's roast pheasant and Carolina red snapper are served on Limoges china and silver, and the whole affair is warmed by fireplaces and a gas chandelier." Full review

""White gloves and pearls" might suit this "distinguished" Georgetown "classic" with a "refined", "historic" townhouse setting and "expertly prepared" "farm-to-table" New American cooking." Full review

"Ye olde colonial dining room imbues Georgetown ethos in a walnut shell. Baroque on the outside, ceremonial on the inside."

"Perhaps the grande dame of Washington restaurants, 1789 plays host to many of DC'€™s and the nation'€™s power players." Full review

"Chef Dan Giusti, one of Washington’s premier chefs, makes a creative use of seasonal ingredients."

"Georgetown’s 1789, site of countless graduation fêtes and anniversary dinners, is evocative of a Washington of old, when men wore ties and women smiled and nodded." Full review

"A Georgetown institution with a sense of Old World dignity staffs a talented kitchen producing seasonal delights." Full review

"1789: Age of the patrons, or total for your bill?"

"All the gentility of this 19th-century town-house restaurant is offset by the down-to-earth food on the menu, which changes daily." Full review