Best Romantic Restaurants in Mount Vernon Triangle

SHIA is a phenomenal restaurant and lives up to the excellence and creativity of Chef Edward Lee. We went there for our anniversary and they made it so special. It is an intimate and luxurious restaurant, with lovely music. I liked that the dining room wasn’t loud like most city restaurants. We loved the Korean-inspired cuisine. As usual, Chef Lee puts his creative magic touch to combine interesting flavors, textures, temperatures, and cultures in ways that you can’t replicate at home and will never get anywhere else. The service was superb — very personalized and personable. The staff was very knowledgeable about all the ingredients and answered our questions thoroughly. I first discovered Chef Lee at a charity event over a decade ago when he prepared half of the dinner courses. He outshone the other chef and I learned that he would soon be appearing on Iron Chef (which he won). I told him then that he would one day cook for the Korean Embassy or White House—and he has! We are huge fans of Chef Lee, having dined at 610 Magnolia (Louisville, KY) and Succotash (National Harbor/DC). SHIA is his best restaurant yet. I highly recommend that you go before it hits #1 on the Washingtonian. It reminded me of top dishes from Culinary Class Wars (Netflix). I’m going back for my sister’s birthday!

This is our second time dining at Limani DC. We absolutely love the food, the staff is amazing. Definitely one of the best restaurants in the area!

Our server was fantastic! Great recommendations and so sweet to celebrate our slightly belated birthday honoree.

Initially the experience was decent although our drinks were not that good. Then we noticed a swarm of ants circling our feet. We told our server and she was very nonchalant and said it was because of the food. We only have chips and guacamole. Anya were crawling under and around our table and near the wall where we were seated. I think it was more disturbing that the server was so uncaring and then rushed to clear our table off.

Loved this place. We Got the chicken which came with mashed potatoes, baby vegetables, and some sort of puree that was delicious. We also got the steak tartare as an app and filet mignon, loved the sauce that came over the mashed potatoes!