CIRCA at Foggy Bottom

A great spot for drinks and snacks before getting on the shuttle for the Kennedy Center

I have been to several Circa’s but dine at this one the most. The food is consistently delicious and the staff is pleasant and attentive at all the locations. It’s great to know that there is a reasonably priced consistently outstanding restaurant I can go to often to have a great meal without breaking the bank. Thank you!

Have been here for dinner with friends and lunch with business associates - can’t go wrong. It’s delicious.

Mushroom flatbread and quinoa kale avocado salad were both very good.

The food was very good, the service only average, but this restaurant is best for someone who can walk there since parking is scarce and the nearest garage is a few blocks away.

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This is our second time visiting Circa for our corporate lunch and we always receive amazing service! and the same table !! which is super sweet =) The food is always amazing I have tried every seasonal ravioli dish and im amazed every time! Thank you!

Great food! I ordered the chicken and biscuits and it was delicious!! Would definitely go back

Have been to this restaurant multiple times with a good experience. Unfortunately, this time the food was cold and the flatbread pizza was stale. Perhaps they allocated too many resources to Restaurant week. But I now question the value of returning.

We loved it! The food was great, the service was prompt, the ambience relaxing, not too noisy. We'll be back definitely.

The Purple rain drink is a must try (if you can handle spicy/hot). Shotgun shrimp are a must as well. Jambalaya is awesome. Baby Kale Parm salad is wonderful.

The food was good as always. The happy hour special drink was pretty weak and watery. Service is very good. My favorite place in the area but next time I'll order off the regular drink menu

Great Ceaser Salad

My friend and I had a delicious lunch at CIRCA. Will come back soon!!

Amazing food and stellar service!

The food I ordered was great. Poke nachos and brussels with blue cheese. The other diners with me enjoyed their quinoa salads. Would totally go back, the food was really good and the service was great as well.

The waitress “T” not only was prompt to address me as a guest, but also (and most importantly) made me feel that such fast response was to address my needs and not to “get rid of me and move on to the next customer”.

amazing! great service, brunch menu had options for everyone and wasn’t super busy yet when we arrived.

I came with my mother and a good friend for a late Christmas/New Years dinner since I was visiting from Alaska. I have dined at the CIRCA in DuPont Circle many times (wish it was still there). But our dinner did not disappoint. My mother had the turkey burger, a friend had the scallops dish, while I had the steak frite. The dishes are generous. I think, I’m retrospect, I would have stuck with the small plates as I have previously done many times at the DuPont Circle circa. Having said that, our meals were delicious. Our server was attentive and professional. My only slight complaint is that the dining area could be a little more well-lit. It was a bit too dark for my mother. Otherwise, thank you for giving us such a lovely dining experience!

Restaurant, staff and food was amazing! Will definitely be back...

Service was quick, so we were able to take our time walking to the Kennedy Center. The food was excellent!

Good food, drinks, service, staff and location to Kennedy Center

Very nice bistro in Foggy Bottom, convenient to Metro, State Dept, GW. Great happy hour!

Another fabulous meal - the Ahi Tuna and BBQ flatbread were amazing, as was the hummus! Can't wait to visit again!

Great spot pre and post theatre. Fresh and flavorful food, great location and perfect service. Will definitely return to this spot.

Staff was very friendly. Brunch was outstanding! Be sure to try the Blood Orange Bellini.

The food was good and our server was great...he helped us make decisions when we had menu questions. We asked for some customizing on most of our meals and our server wrote it all down, repeated it back to us and got everything perfect.

New Years dinner before a show at the Kennedy Center. Drinks (gin& tonic, pino grigio) were excellent, lettuce wraps were delicious. Lobster ravioli and steak frites were excellent. It was a fairly slow evening (4:30) so the noise level wasn't bad. Service was prompt but not particularly friendly. This is ok since I want to spend the time with my wife not the server! Overall a very nice experience.

Fantastic food. Food was a little slow coming out but it was worth the wait.

I made a reservation for New Years Eve. Everything about the dining experience was excellent! From the wine to the main course to the relaxed but attentive nature of our waitress. I will differently be back. Well Done!!!!

Great place. Good food and the service and staff are always wonderful and friendly. Best place to go before an event at Kennedy center which dinning there is overpriced and the food is over rated

Recommend it for the convenience. Food was delicious but a bit on the pricey side. Our server, Claire, was lovely and very attentive.

Excellent dining experience all around!

great food and excellent service on a very busy night

Server was friendly but we weren't offered bread. Salads were good but sometimes have been even fresher. Everything was pretty pricey for what we got.

The happy hour is a great deal. We went before the theater and loved it!

Great location, just steps from the Foggy Bottom Metro and the Kennedy Center shuttle bus stop. This restaurant has a varied menu with multiple non-meat options, and it is reasonably priced. We were all pleased with our entrees, and the few appetizers we ordered.

Great atmosphere with really good food - but seemed a tad over-priced compared to similar restaurants. But we really enjoyed our meal there before walking over to the Kennedy Center for a play.

Great pre-theatre dinner spot - food and service were great and it was an easy walk to the Kennedy Center. We will be back.

Overall the food was fine and everything about the restaurant was fine. I was disappointed in our server. This is the only time I’ve been there so I can’t say it is indicative of their service in general or we just had a poor server. She just wasn’t very good. She didn’t seem like she wanted to be there at all and she brought nothing to our overall experience.