The D.C. Michelin Guide adds eight new restaurants, broadening its dining selection.
WASHINGTON — Eight new restaurants have been added to the elite city dining handbook, the D.C. Michelin Guide.
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While they haven’t yet earned a prized Michelin star, inclusion in the guide puts them on the map for any foodie traveling into the nation’s capital.
They’ll be revealed in Michelin’s annual awards ceremony, this year in Philadelphia.
Michelin has announced that the northeastern field of D.C., New York, and Chicago will now also include the City of Brotherly Love and Boston.
The eight restaurants being added to the D.C. guide are:
Elmina: modern West African/Ghanian cuisine; located at 2208 14th St., NW
Fish Shop: seafood, with an emphasis on Mid-Atlantic; 610 Water St., SW
Karravaan: Asian “flavors of the silk road;” 325 Morse St., NE
La’Shukran: Middle Eastern; 417 Morse St., NE
PhoXotic: Vietnamese; 103 Rhode Island Ave., NW
Providencia: Contemporary “love letter to the immigrant experience;” 1321 Linden Ct, NE
Raw Omakase: Japanese/sushi; 1326 14th St., NW
Your Only Friend: Gastropub; 1114 9th St., NW
The first North American city in the Michelin Guide was New York, added in 2005. Among cities categorized as “northeastern,” Chicago was added in 2011, and D.C., 2017.
Now, Michelin guides account for nearly every city in the U.S.
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