Esquire Critic Names DC Restaurant Among Best New Eateries In USA

An Esquire critic has tapped one new D.C. restaurant as among the very finest in the United States. (Shutterstock) Source Patch

By Dan Taylor

WASHINGTON, DC - Esquire critic Jeff Gordinier has released his list of the 22 best new restaurants in America for 2019, and a D.C. restaurant is on it.

In fact, Seven Reasons - located at 2208 14th Street NW near the U Street Corridor - was the very first restaurant on the list.

Gordinier, who has been "logging coutless miles for the past 12 months" looking for the best dining in the country, highlighted the Latin American restaurant as a place where "immigrants are throwing a party."

"Unfettered joy radiates from inside Seven Reasons as you stand outside the front door, and once you enter and sit down, that joy makes itself known—proudly, defiantly—in the riot of flavors and hues that chef Enrique Limardo sends out from the kitchen," he wrote. "Is there almost too much packed into each bite? No one's complaining. More-is-more extravagance is what makes Seven Reasons a fiesta you never want to stop."

Source Patch