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00 Very Best Restaurants issue is almost here, and, as in years past, we’ve ranked the top tier of DC area dining spots. Number one for 2024? It’s Causa, the cool, creative Peruvian tasting-menu place in Shaw’s Blagden Alley , check out the display of whole fish on a bed of ice. Delgado sources catches from Japan and beyond that you don’t often see on menus here, such as bonnetmouth and sea robin, and dry-ages many of them.
There’s just as much energy and skill behind the bar, thanks to co-owners Glendon Hartley and Chad Spangler . They maintain a massive Pisco collection—both here and at the bigger, more casual upstairs bar Amazonia—and shake up stunning cocktails, including the best Pisco sours in town. The issue, with the full list of reviews and top 25 rankings, hits newsstands on January 25. But first, we stopped by Causa to surprise the owners with the big news—watch it here:and a cook in New York restaurant kitchens, and she is a graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education. She lives in Petworth.Quiz: How Many of Washingtonian’s 100 Very Best Restaurants Have You Been To?