WHERE TO STAY IN WASHINGTON
Where to Stay in Washington GEORGETOWN Many of our readers have work that brings them to Washington. This regular feature is to help make their stay a pleasant one-information about where to...
...The rooms are attractive, most in colonial style...
...Free parking outdoors, pets allowed...
...The food isokay but expensive...
...Single, $42$46...
...Whether you’re on a tight budget or a generous expense account, well try to guide you to the right places...
...Cots $10 extra...
...Washington D .c...
...6 per person additional...
...At Le Pescadou, 3280 M St., the prices are high, but you will find consistently good fish entrees...
...The best of Washington’s Indian restaurants, the Apana, is in Georgetown, 3066 M St...
...The Inn is located right in the center of the Georgetown shopping center...
...No charge for children...
...Single, $44-$52...
...A number of dishes are very good, however, and it’s a pleasant, attractive restaurant...
...And you won’t go wrong at Chez Odette, 3063 M St, an old-timer, where the food is good, but not great, the atmosphere comfortable country French, and the prices modest...
...And yes, when you suddenly realize that all you really want is just a plain old burger and fries in a bag, Roy Rogers, 1226 WisconsinAve.,and the Little Tavern, 1301 Wisconsin Ave...
...The Entre Nous restaurant in the hotel serves only lunch and dinner, so there are free donuts and coffee in the lobby mornings...
...free parking, pets allowed...
...The decor is undistinguished, but the rooms are nevertheless very fresh and cheerful...
...La Ruche, 120630th St., isa very attractive, small, restaurant with good cafe food and sinful pastries and desserts at reasonable prices...
...This brand-new, very Holiday-Inn hotel is an easy three-block walk downhill to Georgetown...
...While your choice of accommodations in Georgetown is limited to the above (a fourth hotel is under construction, ready spring 79), there are plenty of places to eat-from Afghan to Mexican to Vietnamese to good old American, from carry-out pizza to carre d’agneau a I’ail et au persil...
...The delicately flavored dishes served in a charming atmosphere are worth the high prices...
...Children free...
...Thedecorat Trudie’s, 3299 M St., is definitely handsome but doesn’t justify the high prices and verypoor Chinese food...
...There are two good, moderately priced Vietnamese restaurants, The Viet Huong, 2932 M St., more intimate and lower priced, and next door the Vietnam Georgetown,more hectic but there’s a rear garden and some of the dishes are a bit better...
...This month wecover Georgetown, the old colonial section of Washington, just a five-minute commute across Rock Creek Park from downtown...
...There are three meeting rooms, coffee shop, restaurant, and lounge and disco, and an outdoor swimming pool...
...Holiday Inn, 2101 Wisconsin Ave., NW, 338-4600...
...Some alternatives to Frenchcuisine: Pub food and atmosphere isavailableat reasonable prices at Clyde’s, 3236 M St., (large, trendy, often crowded), F. Scott’s, 1232 36th St., (less crowded, 1930s-style music in the background), and Publick House, 3218 M St...
...And the Italians aren’t unrepresented: of several Italian-style restaurants, Geppetto, 2917 M St., is an excellent bargain-very good, simple food at reasonable prices...
...This small-46rooms-hotel on a quiet side street in the part of Georgetown closest to downtown, was designed as an apartment building, so every room is actually a suite with kitchenette, sittingldining area, and separate bedroom(s...
...95 rooms...
...The cuisine of Cafe de Paris, 3056 M St., one of the first cafes, does not match up to the others...
...Washington’s original natural food restaurant, Yes!, 1039 31st St., is still operating naturally and at modest prices...
...But it’s open 24 hours and is a good place to sit and talk overcoffee and inexpensive food, In the same block is Le Steak, 3060 M St., the one-entree French restaurant, wherefor$I 3.50yougetconsistentlygood,cooked-to-ordersteakinasplendid sauce, delicious, crispy fries, salad with a hefty garlic dressing, and dessert...
...The main attraction of Jour et Nuit, 30th and M Sts., is its setting-the second story of an 18th-century home with enclosed terrace...
...double $50-$54...
...The Four Georges Restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, not at coffee-shop prices...
...offersnice,simpleprovincialfoodatmoderateprices,in equally nice, simple surroundings...
...Free parking, no pets...
...Swimming pool on the roof...
...The grand mere of Washington’s French restaurants, the Rive Gauche-a Kennedy era watering hole-is at the corner of Wisconsin and M. The old elegance and high prices prevail, but the cuisine has not done quiteas well...
...One door away is Aux Fruits de Mer, serving cafe-style fish dishes...
...Children under 12 free (no cots...
...Especially attractive are the two-bedroom, two-story penthouses...
...La Chaumiere, 28 13 M St...
...For truly authentic French cafe atmosphere and food at moderate prices, go to Au Pied de Cochon, 1335 Wisconsin Ave., with a lot of other people who have discovered it...
...But if all the foregoing seems too routine for your taste, step a half block out of Georgetown proper to La Nicoise, 1721 Wisconsin Ave., where you can spend lots on either very good or pretty bad food-but there’s a chance you won’t notice one way or the other as you spend the evening watching the waiters deliver their goods on roller skates...
...This regular feature is to help make their stay a pleasant one-information about where to stay and where toeat...
...double, $40, $45...
...Meat has started sneaking into the menu at The Big Cheese, 3 I39 M St., but you really shouldn’t go there unless you’re pretty wild about and are willing to pay high prices for acheeseentree...
...penthouse, $90-$110...
...or3331 M S...
...suites (with wet bar), $75, $125.200 rooms...
...Where to Stay in Washington GEORGETOWN Many of our readers have work that brings them to Washington...
...El Tio Pepe,2809 M St., has expensive, good Spanish food and flamenco dancers, while next door at Enriqueta’s, 28 1 1 M St., you11 find honesttogoodness Mexican-not Tex-Mexcooking at reasonable prices...
...suites (with wet bar), $85, $95...
...Single, $36-$40...
...Of the over 100 eateries in the 20 blocks along Wisconsin Avenue, M Street, and nearby side streets, here are some we thought you might like to know about: Someone has observed that thereis probably a higherconcentration of quicheand crepes per block in Georgetown than in Montmartre...
...The Georgetown Dutch Inn, 1075 Thomas Jefferson St., NW, 337-0900...
...The Georgetown Inn, 13 10 Wisconsin Ave., NW, 333-8900...
...double, $54-$62...
Vol. 10 • September 1978 • No. 6
