Best Casual Restaurants in Cleveland Park

What an amazing experience! We are big fans of the Hell's Kitchen show and other Gordon Ramsey shows like Master Chef. The food was amazing, came out quickly, and was worth the price. We went to celebrate our fifth anniversary and every staff member who helped us this evening congratulated us. It made everything so much more special and personal. Our waiter was so kind, patient, and knowledgeable about the dishes. Thank you all so much for the amazing food and experience, we will remember this forever!

We frequent this restaurant, always a good experience. This time we had a large party of 9 ppl. We were seated quickly, but then service was very slow. Waitress though kind seemed like she was tolerating out table - and we often times had to flag her down. Food actually came out quickly but all at once. Appetizers came at the same time as the main entree. We still had a great time - but service could have been better.

12/10/24 didn’t know what to expect as we were hoping for chef Edward lee’s presence, but wasn’t banking on it. Soon as we walked through the door, there he was and our excitement just rose through the roof. First course at the bar was a mandoo with all sorts of flavor profile you never expect from a dumpling. Sweet, acidic, sour, umami, it had everything in a small bite to launch off your culinary adventure. We then were escorted into main dining room where we were able to have a closer look at their kitchen and have another bite sized deliciousness of Saam, which was so clean in plate and fragrance of sesame leave set the tone of Korean cuisine expedition. Third course, the soon tofu soup……. So unexpected, so refined, and clean taste, it was most unexpected flavor punch of the night and to me the favorite course of entire meal. After that, we got the chef’s version of bibimbop. Then comes a dish surprised me which reminded me of traditional duwein Jang Jo gae that has pungent smell of fermented soy bean, which I thought no way he would out this on fine dining but yes he did, and he did not hold back on full flavor profile of Jjang and as I was eating the fish I was so proud that the could represent a Korean dish in such fine tuned way. Then next course was main course od protein which can’t go wrong and it came for time for dessert which ended up being my 2nd favorite dish of the night as it had salty, sweet, sour, all types of flavor, but I never expected to get umami taste out of noo roong ji, which was a huge surprise for me. We were able to take picture with chef Edward Lee and see him in person which was a icing on top, but impeccable attention to detail on dining experience from Shia team has left us with unforgettable memory and experience. Special thanks to Joe for making us feel at home and experiencing Korean “Jung aka service” first hand going above and beyond to make this night to Rember an cherish.

Medium Rare is our favorite neighborhood restaurant. Always great food and service. Juliana is the best

Wonderful food but service was a bit lacking. We were not waited to very often, had to ask for one of our dishes twice, and staff seemed distracted. Will come again, though.