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Roof Terrace Restaurant

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F St. NW (Potomac Pkwy. NW) Send to Phone
WashingtonDC 20566
202-416-8555 | Make Restaurant Reservations
As a destination restaurant for culture buffs, the Roof Terrace has no equal in DC. Roof Terrace Restaurant is one of our | Top 10 Washington DC Brunch Restaurants | Top 10 Washington DC View Restaurants |

Cuisine

Open

Lunch matinee days, Dinner nightly, Brunch Sun.

Features

Wine

Great Wine List

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As a destination restaurant for culture buffs, the Roof Terrace has no equal in DC. Within moments, patrons can descend to a concert, a theater or an event in the Kennedy Center after dining. The dinner menu may feature such entrées as crab cakes, grilled tuna, pan-seared duck breast, braised lamb shanks and an onion-crusted salmon. Dessert choices include a caramel toffee cheesecake.

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Roof Terrace Restaurant, Kennedy Center
by Karen2 on 08/05/2008
 
With no "captive audience," it would be closed; it has become a disaster. The prix fixe menu is a pedestrian soup or salad, a choice of 3 uninspired main courses, and a beautiful but overly chocolatey dessert; the few a la carte choices were characterless. Nearly 2 hours prior to the show, the salad was served before the wine. Our orders were offered to the wrong people, difficult with 3 choices and a table for 2. The wait staff looks downtrodden and never bothered to ask if we wanted more wine or how the meal was (obviously bad). The dissapointment on diners' faces, especially prior to anticipating the festive Lion King, said it all. Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad
 
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