Mount Vernon Square Restaurants

The food is outstanding!! The service needs a little work to make it equal to the food.

Excellent breakfast overall. Friendly, professional service in a nice, informal setting. We had the two egg breakfast. Scrambled eggs with cheese was more like an omelette, which was perfect. Good biscuit with excellent strawberry jam. Hash browns were very good but not very hot. The sausages (both pork and chicken) were literally the weak links-- dry and mealy and just not very tasty. So go for the bacon. We would definitely go back the next time we are in DC.

My husband and I went here for my birthday dinner and we were so happy and pleased! The food was excellent and our waiter (wish I remembered his name!---to give a shoutout!) was so wonderful. Would recommend RPM to anyone who wants good food, great service, and a chill beautiful ambiance.

Superb experience all the way from the front staff to the back chefs! Service was excellent, atmosphere was perfect, and the food was delicious and everything was packed with tremendous flavor ! The presentation was fantastic and overall dLeña is a great example to why restaurants thrive when they do it right! Thank you, can’t wait to come back and eat!

Amazing food, service and ambiance. Zaytina is always a great choice for dinner. Now it’s our new favorite. We had a 5:45pm reservation and we’re seated immediately in a great booth for 2 near the bar. We wanted to order one of the tasting menus but we were told that the two of us couldn’t order just one tasting menu (which looked amazing). That was disappointing, but our waitress recommended a game plan with several dishes that she thought we would enjoy. To start she suggested we select three of the spreads to enjoy with those amazing puffy, paper thin, warm pitas that are served generously throughout the meal. The red pepper and feta dip along with the labneh were both surprisingly delicious! The babganoush wasn’t our favorite next time we’d order the hummus which our waitress recommended. Then the halloumi and cauli with seven spices, yum! The mezze shrimp made the combo surprisingly filling but we still had the eggplant and ground lamb shish kabob. Wow, a lot of food. The eggplant was disappointing because it was fried, I thought it was going to be grilled, but even so, if fried, it needs to be crunchy/crispy, not blondish and mushy. We ordered the eggplant because it was on that tasting menu. They can have one mediocre dish and still get 5 stars on food because the Pilsner beer was divine and so reasonable! One other food related issue for us, was our waitress had recommended a beet salad but it said smoky on the menu, so I was reluctant for us to to try we are not smoke fans but we love beet salads so we caved and she came over to find out how we liked the smoky flavor with the beets. We def need to avoid any future smoke! She immediately took away the beets and later removed them from our bill. Our waitress was having trouble with the next table. Don’t know what was happening because of the energetic vibe everywhere. But our waitresses and her recommendations worked out pretty perfectly for us overall and we made it to our 7:30 performance on time. Bravo!