Uh....Not sure why this incomplete post was up for a while. It's updated now.

Run on sentences are my specialty.

Get the pizza when you first go. Then once you get hooked and go over and over and you get bored with the pizza, order off the bar menu.

Yes, it most definitely will. Here's what you'll find on the menu right now (based on a recent intelligence report I wrote myself.) You must try the goat shoulder, cooked very much the same as the suckling pig, although not quite as overpowering. I also thought the pappardelle with favas and radishes (and a little bit of crushed red pepper) was suprisingly tasty - I thought it would be a bit bland, but ended up being the hit of the meal.

They don't officially have it on the menu anymore, but all you have to do is ask and they'll pair something with each course for you.

For dining near the Kennedy Center, what about Notti Bianchi? While I enjoy all the places on your list (haven't been to Corduroy), there are some serious holes: Palena, the Laboratorio, Equinox, Makoto, Obelisk, and Restaurant Eve come to mind.

A new one to check out is Nage Restaurant on Rhode Island Ave at Scott Circle. They just opened in March and have a very interesting menu. I had heard about them out in Rehoboth Beach. I enjoyed an entree of Crispy Duck with Sweet Potato Gnocchis. It is tough to find a good duck dish. Overall, the food and service were outstanding, although it was a little quiet in there.

Um, I heard you designed the Corduroy website yourself. Isn't it hypocritical to be hyping a restaurant you're working for?

Hilarious. Definitely not hypocritical. Quite probably not unethical either. In Jason's defense he's been touting Corduroy for at leaest a year and they've only added a website within the last month (finally).

Kudos on the website, Jason. Unless you've been working on it for years and are what's kept us all waiting so long, I'm impressed and pleasantly surprised it doesn't move around so much as to give me a headache!

I still dont get the Cordury raves. I've now been there twice. Both times the service has been less than professional, the food served luke warm, the atmosphere bland at best, and the quality of the food just ok. For a dinner at that price I expect more than mediocrity.

I just can't understand why Corduroy keeps making it onto lists of "best food". We went for lunch and dinner twice and it was not only average food (if not below average), but average service and let's be real - it's a cheap-looking hotel bar. Jonny...maybe someone responded to you with some sort of answer? There are LOADS of places that have better food, better service, and better atmosphere for 1/4 the price.