Michelin Guide: Washington, DC Restaurants With The Best Desserts
Chef Matt Baker is luring diners to Ivy City with this gorgeous spot, which transforms local products into modern, deeply complex items. Myriad choices are offered in the multi-course meal, but large appetites should give over and let the chef prepare a tasting, whereby sustainable ingredients are utilized to prepare dishes that are creative, precise, and enjoyable. Highlights include a chestnut velouté poured over a date cake with vanilla-pear marmalade and foie gras terrine for a rich, well-rounded dish. Yuzu crémeux with pineapple ganache or Baker's take on Rocky Road—chocolate semifreddo, fried candied almonds, dehydrated marshmallow—make for a sweet, refined denouement.
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Here’s Your 2020 Michelin Dining Map to DC
“Michelin just released its fourth dining guide to DC. Ten new Bib Gourmand restaurants were added to the 2020 guide (moderately priced eateries where you can get a meal for $40 or less), and four new one-star entries: omakase splurge Sushi Nakazawa, fiery Maydan, modern American tasting room Gravitas, and Little Pearl, restaurateur Aaron Silverman’s cafe-by-day, modest prix-fixe by night. Here’s a map to your next Michelin meal.”
Anna Spiegel of Washingtonian
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Four More DC Restaurants Win Michelin Stars
“Gravitas, one of the new one-starred D.C. restaurants, stood out with its “impressive series of creative, astutely composed dishes offered by chef Matt Baker.” The place, located at 1401 Okie St NE, is specifically recommended for social gatherings or intimate meals.”
- Jane Smith of The DC Post
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Bad Saint Snubbed, Four New D.C. Restaurants Earn One Michelin Star
“Four new restaurants joined the list of one-star restaurants while the two- and three-star selections remained the same. The new one-star additions are Sushi Nakazawa, located inside the Trump Hotel, Gravitas in Ivy City, Little Pearl on Capitol Hill, and Maydan off 14th Street NW. All three of Chef Aaron Silverman's restaurants now have at least one Michelin star.”
Laura Hayes of The Washington City Paper
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Our Food Editor’s Top Picks for DC Summer Restaurant Week
“Dinner at chef Matt Baker’s Ivy City tasting room typically starts at $90 for five courses, so the $35 Restaurant Week option looks like a great deal. Guests can typically build their own tasting by mixing and matching dishes with plenty of vegetarian items alongside meats/seafood. Plus the restaurant just debuted a lovely rooftop garden and bar (hello, date night). Dinner only.”
- Anna Spiegel of The Washingtonian
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A local’s guide to Washington, D.C.
“Don’t let Gravitas’s prices scare you. Yes, chef Matt Baker offers only a tasting menu that starts at $78 for four courses, but broken down, that comes out to under $20 a dish for some of the most inventive food in the city.”
- Austin Graff of The Washington Post
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