Metrocurean Names the DC Restaurants to Watch in 2011

• January 12th 2011

by Mark Wellborn

DC restaurant and food blog Metrocurean recently published its top restaurants to watch in the city for 2011. Fittingly for the year, the blog names 11 restaurants.

The full list, with an accompanying description for each restaurant, can be viewed here, but two caught our eye as worth mentioning on UT.

The first is the Pearl Dive Oyster Palace that is planned for 1612 14th Street NW. The Jeff Black seafood restaurant will have a Southern-themed menu and a bar with a bocce court upstairs, according to Metrocurean. But as 14th and You reported earlier in the week, the restaurant faces a few hurdles before it can officially open its doors.

The second restaurant is Rogue 24, a 52-seat establishment that will open along Blagden’s Alley and offer a 24-course tasting menu. It was widely reported in August that the restaurant would be opening this winter, but Metrocurean notes that it will now open at some point this spring.

One restaurant that did not make the list, but that UT is eagerly anticipating is Gillian Clark’s Kitchen on K Street, which is slated to open at the Loree Grand in a few months. The chef (of Colorado Kitchen fame) sent this note around via email to her mailing list on Tuesday:

For all of you who remember and miss Colorado Kitchen we’re working on bringing it back to K Street. The Kitchen on K St. is slated to open Spring 2011.

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/metrocurean_names_its_restaurants_to_watch_in_2011/2832.