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🤢 2/5 - Lovely Hotel, Mediocre (at best) Restaurant
By 👻 @The Grants, 03/25/2022 3:00 am
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My wife and I recently stayed at The Inn at Little Washington and also dined there that same night. Our room was generally lovely and well appointed. My only ding on the room was the bedding felt like it came from a JC Penney "Bed in a Box". Not commensurate - or even in the same universe of quality as the rest of the room. Before dinner we had a cocktail in the bar. Lovely. Great service, great drink. The restaurant is an abundant enigma. I have eaten at 18 3-Micheline starred restaurants - some multiple times, and The Inn at Little Washington is hands-down the worst Micheline starred restaurant (of any level) I have ever eaten at. The food itself was well prepared and well presented - for the most part. I would give it one Michelin star. Not adventurous or experimental enough for two stars, and certainly not extraordinary enough to have three stars. The service experience was in the words of another reviewer "abysmal." Our sommelier did a fine job and was the highlight of the meal. Our primary server was another story altogether - awkward, uncomfortable and absent. When the savory courses were over we waited thirty minutes for the sorbet course to come out. After commenting on the delay and asking as to to the timing of our dessert and cheese courses, my dessert course came out another twenty minutes later. The dessert itself looked like it was a days old specimen you might find on a lunch counter at a diner, never intended for consumption. I didn't eat it for the twenty minutes we waited for the cheese cart to come back around, and I didn't eat it after either. It had clearly aged enough. My wife at this point having waited the better part of 90 minutes to receive her dessert, also declined. This is level of service is unacceptable for any restaurant. Never mind a Michelin-starred restaurant. Never mind a 3-Michelin starred restaurant. There is no excuse at a 3-Michelin star restaurant - EVER - that's what makes it special - absolute, unwavering consistency. The kitchen - in service of their ginormous dining room is more of a factory than anything else - or shall we say cash register. When you dine there you don't get the sense that they care about food at all. They care about having a job and bilking as much money as they can from you under the guise of being 3-stars. It isn't 3-stars. Not even a little bit. We followed our meal at the Inn at Little Washington with three other back-to-back Michelin starred meals in DC: Sushi Taro, El Cielo and Cranes. All three delivered a passion for food and experience commensurate with their level - I would say they all delivered even beyond that. Don't go to Inn at Little Washington. The restaurant isn't worth it. And if you're not going for the restaurant there's no reason to shell out $1200 night to visit a town that is primarily owned by the restaurant. And definitely don't go for your birthday.
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