Washington DC: Georgia Browns (May 2012)

My spouse and I dined at this Southern comfort food restaurant in May of 2012. (We stayed at the nearby Hilton Garden Inn on 14th Street between H and I Streets, and it was a quick 2 block walk [one block north and one block west] to the restaurant.) The restaurant was very busy, lively, and loud on the Friday night that we visited; we chose to sit outside in the sidewalk seating area facing the McPherson Square park, which was more peaceful. 

Service was good but a bit too quickly paced for our taste; we barely finished our appetizers before our entrees were in front of us. 

We enjoyed low-country menu items like fried-green tomatoes, deviled eggs, perlau (a sort of paella-like dish with meat, seafood, rice, and vegetables), and shrimp and grits (the grits were fabulous!), followed by banana cream pie. Dishes served with shrimp can be ordered “heads-on” or “heads-off”. The biscuits and cornbread provided to every table were delicious! 

The restaurant participates in the Open Table reservation system, which makes booking a table simple. This restaurant caught our attention because of the cuisine, the location in proximity to our hotel, and the fact that they served late on a Friday evening. This wasn’t the greatest meal we ate during our weekend in DC, but it was interesting and tasty, and reasonably priced for a city restaurant.