A friend, let's call her Pip, needs our help. Read on:
I am the matron of honor at a friend's wedding, and we're all much too old to go vomiting all over the streets of Adams Morgan. But I still want to hold a fun event for her. I am thinking a brunch, lunch or dinner at a good restaurant in DC (she's in NW, specifically Columbia Heights, but anywhere in DC proper would be fine).
We'd like to do it somewhere civilized, not astronomically expensive, where we can reserve a small area of the restaurant and have a prix fixe for about 10-15 people. All the Yelping in DC either raves about hipster spots where you need to show up 3 hours prior to eating and no reservations are taken; dowager restaurants that go for $65 a person; or reviews like "Food's great, nice atmosphere, but surly and inattentive service."
It should be a place that you could, you know, call up in advance and say "Here's what I want to do--pay you up front, offer these choices, have a small area of the place to hang out in for 3 hours..." Perhaps no such thing exists in DC? A comparable Baltimore place would be the B&O Brasseroe, or the Waterfront, or Ambassador Dining Room. On the other end of the spectrum, more casually/spur of the moment, someplace like Henninger's, Petit Louis.
....Please no one say Kramers....
As a Baltimoron, I am not sure how to proceed... anyone who has recommendations would earn my undying readership of their blog, as well as clicks on their google ads in order to drive up their CPCs.
Where should Pip go?
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