Izakaya Seki in Washington D.C.

We already covered lunch at Ben's Chili Bowl, and now that Guinness Week is a cloudy, lingering hangover, the only thing left from our 24-hour trip to D.C. is to post about Izakaya Seki, the restaurant Hiroshi Seki and his daughter Cizuka opened on V Street in July.

Izakayas are Japanese watering holes that serve food to go with the drink. The menus tend to be no frills and offer dishes that might be described as Japanses tapas. Because there's a lack of inferior options on the menu at Izakaya Seki, deciding on what to get was overwhelming, so we asked if we could do an omakese/chef's tasting sort of thing. It was a request our gracious server kindly obliged and proceeded to execute with a firm understanding of Mr. Seki's food. Here's what we had:

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Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington D.C.

We spent part of President's Day weekend in D.C. We were only there for 24 hours, but we had enough time to eat at Ben's Chili Bowl and Izakaya Seki, where we had our favorite meal of the year so far. More on that later. Here's a bit about our meal at "The Bowl."

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