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Grapeseed

4865-C Cordell Ave. (Norfolk Ave.) Send to Phone
BethesdaMD 20814
301-986-9592 | Make Restaurant Reservations
Sleek, chic Grapeseed offers a wine lover's catalog of great beverages, plus good food. Grapeseed Restaurant is one of our | Top 10 Maryland Suburbs (DC) American Restaurants |

Cuisine

Open

Dinner nightly

Features

  • Full bar
  • Reservations suggested
  • Parking lot
  • Casual

Wine

Great Wine List

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Dining room at Grapeseed, Bethesda, MDChef Jeff Heineman, owner of Bethesda's only wine bistro, has chalked up a sure winner with this tidy, bright, cheerful tapas/full-meal restaurant. About the size of a handkerchief, Grapeseed offers a unique twist: Many of Heineman's dishes have been inspired by a specific wine. If you order a tapas chimichurri roasted mussels, he'll suggest sipping the complementary Bonny Doon Le Cigare Volant; on the other hand, if you select a dinner entrée of breast of turkey stuffed with Fontina, almonds and olives, he'd want you to pair that with a Mission Saint Vincent Bordeaux from France. Many of the dishes are inventive and offbeat, such as the white grape gazpacho once offered; others are too tricky to work right, such as the bland mango chiffon pie. But you'll never be bored eating and drinking here.

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