Luxury dining,
DC style
Al fresco dining,
Virginia Beach
also boasts a Little Italy for pasta and pizza lovers and even
“Restaurant Row”, a whole dining district. Virginia is home
WHAT IS SOUTHERN
to internationally-renowned restaurants – the Inn at Little
FOOD?
Washington is rated one of the “Top 10 Best Restaurants in
Three words: ditch the diet. Southern-style cooking is made to
the World” by the International Herald Tribune. While in others,
warm the heart rather than preserve the waistline.
such as Clifton Inn, Charlottesville and L’Auberge Provençale
● In Virginia look out for peanut soup and
in the Shenandoah Valley, not only old-fashioned comfort food like mashed
can you dine in the beautifully-
potatoes, pecan pie and fried cat fi sh.
Restaurants serving Southern-style
restored historic buildings, but you can
include Southern Kitchen, New
stay overnight.
Market; Mrs. Rowe’s, Staunton;
Washington, DC is heaven for the serious foodie.
Michie Tavern, Charlottesville
The trend for locally-produced, fresh and organic and Old Chickahominy House,
ingredients is evident in the restaurant menus, but
Williamsburg.
it’s not all “out with the old”. Who could fail to be ● Smith Island, Maryland’s only
impressed by the surroundings alone at DC institution
inhabited off-shore island in the
Old Ebbitt Grill? Located in an old Victorian theatre stuffed
Chesapeake Bay, with a population of just
364 people, is famous for its Smith Island Cake,
with antiques, it’s directly opposite the US Treasury building,
featuring 10 thin layers of yellow cake fi lled with crème and
and a stone’s throw from the White House, so you can
sometimes crushed candy bars and iced with chocolate confection.
eavesdrop on power-brokers as you down your Eggs Benedict. Other Maryland delicacies you won’t want to miss: stuffed ham
For inexpensive and unpretentious dining Adams Morgan
and beaten biscuits.
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