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| - This review is for last night's Thanksgiving dinner. It might not seem fair to write a review about one bad dinner after having had many other positive visits to the District. However, while I have been amiss in positively yelping the District, I have verbally raved about this gem to my friends and coworkers. That ends today.
Our family of three had the District's Thanksgiving fix prixe dinner with wine pairing for $50 per person. Our expectations were realistic especially since we had had their Thanksgiving dinners at least three times before. It is just a matter of soup to start, turkey with trimmings for the main course, and dessert to finish, with a wine option for each course.
My complaints:
1) Seating was horrible. We had reservations and there were a lot of tables available. Yet, they tried to seat us outside with the smokers and homeless people. Then they seated us right by a door going outside resulting in our dinner being interrupted with cold gusts of wind sometimes accompanied by cigarette smoke. (We did not protest right after we were seated as there was a row of glass doors and we did not know that the doors right beside us would be used as entrance ways.) We were also seated right beside a busy beverage station.
2) The servers were awkward. They seemed to know what to say but not how and how often. Each different server (and there were many) that came to our table greeted us with "Happy Thanksgiving." They also seemed very eager to take plates away when we paused from eating. Odd though that one server took our half eaten desserts but left a stack of dirty side plates on the table.
3) They couldn't even get the food right. The green beans were undercooked (super squeaky), and the bread was dry and served without butter. (But the turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy were delicious and plentiful.) Dessert was gussied up in looks but was so unsatisfying on the tongue, like sweetened whipped canola with pumpkin flavor.
4) The wine pairings were undrinkable. My husband and daughter are not as picky about wine as I am and even they had to wince after each drink. The port served at the end was drinkable, but far from good. (We had plans to go directly to the movies right after dinner. To get rid of the bad taste from the wine (which we barely drank), we went home to brush our teeth and tongues. This is something we have never done.)
At $150 +tip, last night's dinner at The District is the most expensive crappy dinner I've ever had. It failed on all counts (food, beverage, service, ambiance, value) and I will never return.
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