2208 14th Street, NW
From Esquire’s Best New Restaurants in America, 2019: “#1 Seven Reasons
Ten minutes north of the White House and its sour, divisive rhetoric, immigrants are throwing a party. Unfettered joy radiates from inside Seven Reasons as you stand outside the front door, and once you enter and sit down, that joy makes itself known–proudly, defiantly–in the riot of flavors and hues that chef Enrique Limardo sends out from the kitchen. Limardo and several members of his team come from Venezuela, a country in the midst of collapse, and yet the Latin American food and cocktails at Seven Reasons–a mountain of black rice topped with prawns and pork cheeks, a salad in which the summery tang of tomatoes has been concentrated into cubes of jelly, a platter of hamachi tiradito whose pink and green splashes of salmon roe and jalapeño could hang in an art gallery–serve up jubilation as a remedy for pain and color as a cure for the blues. Is there almost too much packed into each bite? No one’s complaining. More-is-more extravagance is what makes Seven Reasons a fiesta you never want to stop.”
From an email:
“This Thursday (11/28), Seven Reasons will be hosting a special Thanksgiving celebration with a special menu created by Executive Chef Enrique Limardo.
The menu will include dishes such as turkey leg with shiitake gravy, sweet potato puree, crispy brussels sprouts and asparagus, etc. Or, guests prefer, they can order a la carte from Seven Reasons’ regular dinner menu.
There are still a few spots left and guests can book via Resy. Tables will be reserved for 2.15 hours for parties of two and reserved for three hours for parties of four or more.”
Ed. Note: Yesterday we spoke about other restaurant recs for Thanksgiving here.