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The year apparent a alternation of absorbing accomplishments for D.C.'s restaurants. The Michelin Guide arrived, three restaurants got nods from Bon Appetit magazine, and Zagat broke the District as the hottest aliment burghal of 2016. This year's best new restaurants ample abounding roles—everything from fun-but-fancy accomplished dining to adjacency pizza kitchens and new takes on Asian cooking. Actuality are the spots that we got the best aflame about over the accomplished 12 months.

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ALL PURPOSE: Brought to you by the masterminds of The Red Hen and Boundary Stone, All Purpose is your adjacency Italian-American beanery with a warm, rustic, and affable vibe. You can be a bounded here. Go for banquet with a acquaintance and allotment the mozzarella-stuffed meatball, Caesar salad, and pizza. Speaking of pizzas, there aren't any amiss choices, but the Riverdale with Italian sausage, broccoli raab, age-old provolone, peppers, and onions is a acceptable bet. You can alike add a canteen of wine to the mix and accumulate your analysis able-bodied beneath $100. Accomplish a catch or aloof airing in.—Rachel Mastandrea

All Purpose is amid at 1250 9th Artery NW.

ALTA STRADA: What’s bigger than a acceptable pasta bowl or a brittle crusted pizza that satisfies the aftertaste buds and the wallet? Michael Schlow’s (of Tico, The Riggsby) Italian abstraction accustomed to D.C. in March afterwards award success at two New England locations. Alta Strada has both composure and agreeableness and retains abstinent prices for aerial affection Italian aliment and a common wine account that offers either red or white varieties after adorned labels. The card is hip abundant to go above the accustomed Italian standbys, with appropriate absorption paid to bearing affection pasta dishes and pizzas that do not disappoint. Try the pizza bianca or the tagliatelle with bootleg bolognese. Head there during blessed hour or weekend late-night dining to account pizzas and appetizers for beneath $10. Its sister restaurant, Conosci, has additionally become a go-to dining armpit for some affection seafood crudo.—Johanna Mendelson Forman

Alta Strada is amid at 465 K Artery NW.

BANTAM KING: The accumulation abaft accepted Daikaya upped the ante in the ramen bold this year with the chicken-focused Bantam King. Although it's aloof about the bend from its contemporary earlier sister, the restaurant's active and active architecture makes diners feel worlds away. Walls are lined with ablaze trays and Japanese banana strips, ablaze lanterns adhere from the ceilings, and craven reigns absolute throughout the menu. The name itself is a fun comedy on the Burger King that acclimated to absorb this atom in Chinatown, while ‘Bantam’ is a aboveboard indicator of what’s to appear for eaters: chicken, and lots of it. Pulled craven ramen is the specialty, with buttery paitan craven banal based in either shoyu, miso, or ambrosial miso seasonings. A bound cardinal of chintan banal is accessible anniversary day. Bowls can be topped with account like onsen eggs or alike a broiled craven quarter. For those who don't appetite soup, the battered-and-brined absurd craven served with craven drippings rice gives Colonel Sanders a run for his money. Bantam King additionally serves a array of Japanese beer, sake, and affection shochu.—China Rae Riddle

Bantam King is amid at 501 G St. NW.

BINDAAS: Indian artery book meets the apperception of a four-star chef at Bindaas in Cleveland Park, and the after-effects are as active and adorable as one ability expect. From abundantly atomic avocado golgappas (imagine the best absurd chaw of a candied and agreeable nacho abolished acquiescently with tamarind) to affable craven tikka blimp abundantly into a balmy wrap, the eatery's baby bowl card packs all of Rasika chef Virkam Sunderam's ability of acidity into acquiescent (and affordable) bites. Bindaas is on the abate ancillary so be abiding to accomplish a catch at this cozy, artery art-covered establishment. Alike seats at the bar are a hot article on an aboriginal anniversary night. But the blooming mango affair and Indian whiskey alternative accomplish any bench at the abode account the crush.—Emelyn Rude

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Bindaas is amid at 3309 Connecticut Ave NW.

ESPITA MEZCALERIA: D.C. has affluence of Mexican restaurants, and Espita Mezcaleria is amid the best. The artsy, active décor invites you in while the accurate southern Mexican cuisine will accumulate you advancing back. Mezcal is added than a specialty here—it’s allotment of the restaurant's identity. Enjoy your mezcal in flights or annoyed in a auspicious cocktail. And in the kitchen, antique blah is adapted nightly and arena into masa every morning for beginning tortillas. There are eight altered types of tacos to contentment aftertaste buds, from maitake augment to smoked pork jowl. Espita additionally touts seven types of birthmark (including a absurd negro with lamb abdomen and Poblano served with squash) and bristles kinds of salsa. Be adventuresome and try a combination. The flavors and atmosphere will amuse any and all of your Mexican aliment needs.—Rachel Mastandrea

Espita Mezcarleria is amid at 1250 9th Artery NW.

HAZEL: Shaw’s restaurant arena is booming (this account is affluence proof) and Hazel by Adjacency Restaurant Accumulation (Birch & Barley, Iron Gate) is appropriate there with the top newcomers. Dishes actuality are globally-inspired and average sized, so plan to adjustment a few and allotment with your table. Commons alpha with adulatory aliment served in a bolt bassinet that chef Rob Rubba’s wife, Deb, fabricated herself. The atmosphere is active and welcoming. The amplitude incorporates elements from bounded artisans—like the floral mural on the patio wall. For dinner, try the zucchini aliment with foie gras mousse, pork kim-chi gnocchi bokki, or, best of all, get “Ducked Up"—a avoid banquet for two ($50 per person) with avoid breasts and wings, absurd rice, greens, dumplings, and all the sauces you need. Whatever you order, accomplish abiding to ask for a ancillary of Hazel's actual own "Fire Panda" hot sauce.—Rachel Mastandrea

Hazel is amid at 808 V Artery NW.

HIMITSU: This restaurant has aloof 24 seats, takes no reservations, and table sizes are capped at four people. The card is disconnected into several sections that accommodate a circadian sushi alternative (both nigiri and makimono) forth with algid and hot plates meant to be aggregate amid diners. And portions sizes are ample abundant that a brace of dishes per being accomplish a bushing meal. Himitsu is the conception of business ally Kevin Tien and Carlie Steiner. Tien is a adept chef, accepting captivated jobs at a cardinal of acclaimed restaurants such as José Andrés' Oyamel and, best recently, Pineapple & Pearls. And Steiner is a force as a bartender, with acquaintance bond drinks at Andrés' Barmini and Minibar, and as a co-founder of ability cocktail accouterment business Stir Bartending. The card changes regularly, but the ambrosial and brittle karaage absurd craven ($18) has already become somewhat of a signature item.—Travis Mitchell

Himitsu is amid at 828 Upshur Artery NW.

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KINSHIP: This restaurant's backward December 2015 aperture apparent a acknowledgment to business for acclaimed fine-dining chef Eric Ziebold, who ahead adapted at the now-shuttered CityZen at the Mandarin Oriental. Kinship's card is abiding into beatnik categories: craft, history, ingredients, indulgence, and "for the table." Anniversary area includes dishes from appetizers to desserts and is advised to accent a altered aspect of cooking. Navigating the card may assume like a puzzle, but the rewards are account the effort. Plates like Maine lobster French acknowledgment ($30) and dogie scallopine are amid the best aesthetic in the burghal at the moment. For an alike bigger splurge, accede Métier, Kinship's added academic sister restaurant at the aforementioned address.—Travis Mitchell

Kinship is amid at 1015 7th Artery NW.

OTTOMAN TAVERNA: The aliment and drinks at Ottoman Taverna draw afflatus from places like Turkey, Greece, and North Africa, but this is no quick-serve kabob or hummus spot. Controlling chef Ilhan Erkek’s resume includes stints at Ritz Carlton hotels in Naples, Florida and Istanbul. And his acquaintance shines throughout the menu, which includes hot and algid meze (small dishes) as able-bodied as abounding entrees. The cocktail affairs appearance rakia and added bounded ingredients, while the wine account incorporates grapes from Greece, Macedonia, and Serbia. The card names can be adamantine to pronounce, but don’t let that accumulate you from ordering.—Travis Mitchell

Ottoman Taverna is amid at 425 Eye Artery NW.

PINEAPPLE & PEARLS: Rose's Luxury chef Aaron Silverman fabricated after-effects back he appear Pineapple & Pearls and its $250 all-embracing tasting card of almost 13 courses. While the restaurant is absolutely fine-dining, the aggregation makes an accomplishment to accumulate the atmosphere fun. There is no dress cipher (OK, no t-shirts or shorts) or white tablecloths here. Alike tabs are acclimatized afore you arrive, so the sticker shock is larboard out of the celebration. For a cheaper experience, you can accept non-alcoholic alcohol pairings for $225 or eat at the bar after pairings for $150. Anxiety are fabricated online, and accumulate in apperception that the restaurant is alone accessible for banquet Tuesday through Friday. P&P additionally operates a coffee boutique during the day that serves a alternative of drinks, pastries, and sandwiches.—Travis Mitchell

Pineapple & Pearls is amid at 715 8th Artery SE.

THE SHAW BIJOU: Let's alpha with the binding disclosure: I'm one of those bodies that eats at places like The Shaw Bijou. Rather than banquet out generally at middling restaurants, I adopt to agreement in my own kitchen best of the time and allow in fits of adorned for appropriate occasions or while on vacation. I'm absolutely acquainted that isn't for everyone, and is prohibitive for most. But I see it in the way that added bodies attending at splurging on sports amateur or concert tickets—an acquaintance you can't carbon at home. All of this is additionally to say that I'm not in it for gestures of high-end formality. In fact, I frequently acquisition they backbite from what I'm absolutely there for: the food. This isn't the case at Shaw Bijou, which feels airy and agreeable in a way that its cousins in amount point generally do not. The food, though, is durably in the aforementioned apple of comestible wizardry. Yes, this is Kwame Onwuachi's aboriginal time helming the kitchen as controlling chef, but for my money (a lot of it), he succeeded in what he set out to do. If you're the affectionate of being who buys into this affectionate of dining experience, don't absence it. And thankfully, if you aren't, they've anew launched an a la carte menu. — Rachel Sadon

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The Shaw Bijou is amid at 1544 9th St NW

SHOUK: This restaurant is 100 percent plant-based, but don't let that billow your thinking. The Israeli-inspired fast-casual book actuality delivers affable and affordable commons with a array of tastes and textures. And clashing the majority of fast-casual spots that animate architecture your own meal, the chefs actuality accept done the assignment for you in architecture out their signature pitas and rice bowls. Aloof baddest a abject vegetable like cauliflower, fennel, chickpea, or augment and let the kitchen do the rest. The dips (go for the cashew lebneh or beet tahina), polenta fries, and salads are additionally aces of absorption and are acceptable means to annular out your meal. Shouk additionally carries a baby alternative of wine and bounded beer.—Travis Mitchell

Shouk is amid at 655 K Artery NW.

TAIL UP GOAT: Afterwards establishing more-than-solid resumes in accomplished flavors and superb service, three alums of much-applauded Komi and Little Serow brought some ascendancy to Adams Morgan dining with Tail Up Goat. It's been beneath than a year and it can already calculation a Michelin brilliant amid its accolades. The name and affair are Caribbean, flavors are abiding in the Mediterranean, and guests are accustomed with generously-sized, family-style plates. The thin, multi-layers of Tail Up’s dupe lasagna has accustomed civic attention. The lamb ribs for two with salsa verde and pickled alacrity seeds accept acquired a bounded following, while different aliment courses like seaweed sourdough with salt-crusted sardines generally abduct the absolute show. From its intricate, floral plates and dejected walls to the accommodation accustomed to diners, D.C. is finer transported to the Mediterranean Sea.—China Rae Riddle

Tail Up Dupe is amid at 1827 Adams Mill Road NW.

WHALEY'S: This bright, airy seafood restaurant brings a aftertaste of the bank to Navy Yard, address of the aggregation abaft DGS Delicatessen. The raw seafood building appear in three sizes ($65 to $140) and accommodate a affecting and blithe way to alpha a meal. Or adjustment up some beginning oysters, clams casino, or seafood crudo. Larger plates circle with availability and change with seasons, but apprehend things like seared scallops with Romesco or brittle annihilate blossoms with shrimp. There are additionally some non-seafood options like broiled avoid or braised pork belly. Groups can allotment family-style plates of accomplished absurd angle or seafood risotto. Whaley's has a appealing all-encompassing wine account too, forth with $12 to $13 affair to ablution it all down.—Travis Mitchell

Whaley's is amid at 301 Water Artery SE.

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