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Elisir Restaurant

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Address:
427 11th St. NW
Washington, DC 20004

Neighborhood:
Downtown

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Cuisine:
Italian

Price: $31 to $50

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Elisir Restaurant Details

Dining Style: Fine Dining
Website: http://www.elisirrestaurant.com
Email: justin@elisirrestaurant.com
Phone: (202) 546-0088
Hours of Operation: Lunch: Monday-Friday 11:30-2:30 Dinner Monday-Thursday 5:30-10:00 Friday & Saturday 5:30-11:00
Payment Options: AMEX, MasterCard, Visa
Cuisine: Italian, Contemporary European
Executive Chef: Enzo Fargione
Dress Code: Smart Casual
Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
Additional Details: Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Chef's Table, Full Bar, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Private Room, Wheelchair Access, Wine
Private Party Facilities: Elisir's private dining room is available for parties of up to 24 people. Surrounded by famous wines, this room is ready for both business meetings and social engagements. Choose from either 7 or 10 course tasting menus for dinner or create a specialized menu for your event off of the a la carte menu for lunch. Projection services for A/V are available and special menus are created upon request. Food and Beverage minimum's apply.
Private Party Contact: Justin Kraemer (202) 546-0088
Special Events & Promotions: Elisir is available for private events from 10-100 people. Contact the restaurant for details.

Getting there

Cross Street: Pennsylvania
Public Transit: Metro Center
Parking: Valet
Parking Details: Valet is available to diners outside the restaurant for dinner nightly.

A word from Elisir Restaurant

Elisir Restaurant is the latest incarnation of Chef Enzo Fargione’s approach to Italian fine dining featuring the chef’s distinctive hands-on approach, personalized vision and interpretation of his acclaimed modern Italian cooking that earned him the 2008 Esquire Magazine: “One of the best 4 chefs… to watch in the USA” Elisir offers unique and creative multi course tasting menus nightly highlighting Fargione’s creativity and constant search for taste, presentation and concept. The restaurant also offers a very detailed a la carte menu which changes seasonally. At lunch time the restaurant offers a simpler and faster Bistro concept with an a la carte menu for the main dining room.Continued

Elisir Restaurant

4.2

174 $31 to $50 restaurant

Awards voted by OpenTable diners

Diners' Choice WinnerFit for Foodies
Diners' Choice WinnerItalian

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198 Current Reviews

Summary of Diner Ratings & Reviews

Overall

(Outstanding) 4.3 / 5

Food

(Outstanding) 4.4 / 5

Service

(Outstanding) 4.3 / 5

Ambiance

(Outstanding) 4.1 / 5

Noise Level

Moderate

198 Current Reviews

Summary of Diner Ratings & Reviews

Overall

(Outstanding) 4.3 / 5

Food

(Outstanding) 4.4 / 5

Service

(Outstanding) 4.3 / 5

Ambiance

(Outstanding) 4.1 / 5

Noise Level

Moderate

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Diners classify this restaurant as:

fit for foodies(139)
special occasion(109)
notable wine list(73)

romantic(60)
great for lunch(44)
hot spot(34)

Current OpenTable.com Diner Reviews (198)

Overall rating

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Everything was superlative,

OpenTable Diner Since

Dined on 04/14/2012

2009

Dined on 04/14/2012

2009

Food

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Service

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Ambiance

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Noise Level

Quiet

"Everything was superlative, including the wine parings with the tasting menu courses. At $75, the tasting menu is a fabulous deal. The goose liver custard brule was amazing. The service was formal but warm."

Dined on 04/14/2012

2009

Special Features: fit for foodies, notable wine list, romantic, special occasion

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Overall rating

(Very Good) 4 / 5

Food and service generally

OpenTable Diner Since

Dined on 04/12/2012

2006

Dined on 04/12/2012

2006

Food

(Very Good) 4 / 5

Service

(Very Good) 4 / 5

Ambiance

(Very Good) 4 / 5

Noise Level

Moderate

"Food and service generally very good, but overpriced, especially for lunch. Bread, other than olive which is very good, needs to be improved. The wine by the glass is ho-hum. The veal cheek appetizer was wonderful. The skirt steak sounded better on paper than in reality, though spinach polenta was interesting twist. My husband's is better."

Dined on 04/12/2012

2006

Special Features: fit for foodies, special occasion

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Overall rating

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Good Competition to Fiola

OpenTable Diner Since

Dined on 04/12/2012

2002

Dined on 04/12/2012

2002

Food

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Service

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Ambiance

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Noise Level

Quiet

"All three of us enjoyed very much our dishes (fish, porchetta, and pasta with duck filling) the sides we ordered were delicious too, specially the mushrooms. We'll go back again and the portions were larger than at Fiola. This restaurant is very good and unfortunatelly it is not well known yet."

Dined on 04/12/2012

2002

Special Features: fit for foodies, neighborhood gem, notable wine list, special occasion, great for lunch

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Overall rating

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

I've eaten lunch at Elisir

OpenTable Diner Since

Dined on 04/10/2012

2005

Dined on 04/10/2012

2005

Food

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Service

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Ambiance

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

"I've eaten lunch at Elisir three times now and have been VERY impressed. Excellent food and very attentive service. The octopus is the best in DC (I have a greek background so am very picky on this point) and the rest of the food has been great, too. I also like being able to see into the big kitchen while dining. I'll be back!"

Dined on 04/10/2012

2005

Special Features: fit for foodies, great for lunch

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Overall rating

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Can't wait for our next meal there!

OpenTable Diner Since

Dined on 04/07/2012

2006

Dined on 04/07/2012

2006

Food

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Service

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Ambiance

(Very Good) 4 / 5

Noise Level

Quiet

"The 4 of us had the tasting menu for my bday. It was outstanding! Everything was imaginative and delicious. Our servers were attentive and knowledgeable. Our favorites were the goose liver brule, duck ragu in pasta pouchette, & confit strawberries. The salmon was pretty good, but we would have preferred another pasta because it's an Italian restaurant and the one pasta dish we got was amazing so we wanted to see more. Thank you also for my signed card! I will keep it always. We will definitely back."

Dined on 04/07/2012

2006

Special Features: fit for foodies, special occasion

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Overall rating

(Good) 3 / 5

It is a wanna-be El Bulli

OpenTable Diner Since

Dined on 04/05/2012

2012

Dined on 04/05/2012

2012

Food

(Fair) 2 / 5

Service

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Ambiance

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Noise Level

Moderate

"It is a wanna-be El Bulli but far from achieving it. Creativity can only be apprceiated when accompanied by quality. We were all served with imaginative dishes but none impressed us in terms of taste. Some dishes were way too salty, and too many mixture of ingredients were killing each other, not helping each other. It was as if listening to Siberius and Puccini all in one room. Tasting menu had too much sweets elements to the extent to destroy the main ingredients.
However credit to the fresheness of ingredients, the creative drive of the cheff, ambience and decor, and attentive service staff. The room was not as noisy as other restaurants in the area."

Dined on 04/05/2012

2012

Special Features: good for groups, notable wine list, special occasion

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Overall rating

(Very Good) 4 / 5

Bumps in the road-not potholes!

OpenTable Diner Since

Dined on 04/06/2012

2005

Dined on 04/06/2012

2005

Food

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Service

(Very Good) 4 / 5

Ambiance

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Noise Level

Quiet

"Service wasn't as good as previous visits. For example, we ordered the fabulous tasting menu, but the first course arrived before the wine. As our guest commented, you should never allow a course to be served without the diners having something to drink with it. And, later, after we'd reminded the server we had ordered the wine pairings to go with the tasting menu, the wrong wine arrived with a course. The staff seemed a little off that night, but it could be that they were training one or two new servers and it certainly was not anything we had experienced before. This is a new restaurant and overall, it is a fun and rewarding dining experience!"

Dined on 04/06/2012

2005

Special Features: fit for foodies, notable wine list, special occasion

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Overall rating

(Good) 3 / 5

The service was slow. The

OpenTable Diner Since

Dined on 04/06/2012

2004

Dined on 04/06/2012

2004

Food

(Good) 3 / 5

Service

(Poor) 1 / 5

Ambiance

(Good) 3 / 5

Noise Level

Quiet

"The service was slow. The portion of the octopus was skimpy and much smaller than I have scene on previous visits to the restaurant. The usual chef was not there and it showed."

Dined on 04/06/2012

2004

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Overall rating

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Amazing

OpenTable Diner Since

Dined on 03/31/2012

2008

Dined on 03/31/2012

2008

Food

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Service

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Ambiance

(Very Good) 4 / 5

Noise Level

Moderate

"Amazing. Very interesting plating along with interesting combinations such
as a variety of fried mushrooms making a nest holding a poached egg. Goose liver pate
was so smooth and delicate(amazing)"

Dined on 03/31/2012

2008

Special Features: fit for foodies, notable wine list, special occasion

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Overall rating

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

It's in The Details

OpenTable Diner Since

Dined on 03/31/2012

2010

Dined on 03/31/2012

2010

Food

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Service

(Outstanding) 5 / 5

Ambiance

(Very Good) 4 / 5

Noise Level

Moderate

"It isn't often that one finds such attention to detail in a restaurant. Elisir pays attention to every detail. The food is most memorable. A faint aroma of hickory smoke reached our table and we commented on what dish that would be - several minutes later our dinners arrived. The perfect orbs of potatoes on my dining partner's plate had the slightest hint of smokiness. And those were just the potatoes!
The staff is excellent - present, but not hovering or distracting, and always professional.
I highly recommend an evening at Elisir."