219 Restaurant

truly a creole restaurant food is phenomenol
gumbo is as good as it get , rib eye steak is cooked perfect and duxell mushroom sauce is superb will come back again

This is probably the worst meal I've had in the DC area- maybe ever. And it cost around $100, too- without any drinks. When neither my husband or I ate any of the food that we ordered, the waiter didn't even ask if there was a problem- he just took the food and dropped the check. So disappointed because the restaurant looks so cute from the outside and I wanted to love it.

Bottom line up front: The worst meal I've had on King street to date.

Without wine and with one appetizer (scallops) dinner for two was $100.

Between us we had the scallops, the duck/quail, and the lobster spaghetti.

The scallops were overcooked and the sauce was heavy and bland. They were topped with fois gras that they had somehow managed to make tough and chewy.

The duck and quail dish had virtually no flavor whatsoever, and the celery-crawfish hash might as well have been chopped cardboard.

I didn't have the spaghetti, but my wife ate 3 bites before putting down her fork and calling it quits.

Despite the fact that neither of us ate more than a few bites of our meal and declined a box no one bothered to even ask how it was.