Restaurant Review (DC version): Cashion's Eat Place

Last night, Rebekah and I went out to eat at Cashion's Eat Place in Adams Morgan in Washington DC. The last time she and I had dinner together several months ago, she was bemoaning the food scene in DC and how hard it was to be a foodie in DC. So I was skeptical about eating anywhere in our capital city.

It turns out that the food was really quite good. I was much less impressed with their wine and their sommelier.

For appetizers, we split a Veal Cannelloni, Bechamel, and Parmesan dish and a salad of Local Beets, Pipe Dreams Fromage, Walnuts, Pomegranates, Frisse, Mizuna, and a Mustard Seed Vinaigrette. The cannelloni was stupendous - it was light and cheesy and absolutely delicious. There were two cannellonis on the plate, but I could have eaten four. The salad was decent, but the cheese was unremarkable. I could have done with some more pomegranate seeds or some slices of mandarin, but it was still good.

For entrees, Rebekah had the Whole Mediterranean Dorade Fillet with Fingerling Potatoes, Escarole, Aioli, Laconian Olive Oil, and Sea Salt while I had the Berkshire Pork Chop, Korean Spiced, with Black Rice, Red Peppers, Haricots Verts, Pickled Vegetables, and Micro Cilantro. Rebekah let me have a bite of hers - it was tasty (and she said it was delicious). The pork chop was phenomenal. The cilantro was possibly a little too strong, but the pork chop had a great taste to it on its own. When combined with the rice, peppers and green beans, each bite was better than the last.



For dessert, I had the Chocolate Mousse filled Profiteroles and Rebekah had a Tangerine Tart. Both were excellent - we liked our choices so much that we barely spared a bite for each other.

As for the wine, the sommelier picked out a bottle of Barbera (Barbera d'Alba, Altare '07) for us that he described as very full bodied. I am not a wine critic in any stretch of the imagination, but this was not a full bodied wine. It took a long time to open up and only after about 15 minutes started to do anything interesting. Even then, it was not what we had been looking for. However, he was extraordinarily polite and exchanged the bottle for a bottle of Bordeaux (Medoc, Chateau Antonich '03) instead.

Overall, I highly recommend the place for those of you DC people out there. I also had a glass of the Hot Apple Cider while I waited for Rebekah and that was excellent, too!