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Oyster Oyster

1440 8th St. NW, Washington, 20001, USA
$$$ · Vegetarian, Contemporary
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Oyster Oyster

1440 8th St. NW, Washington, 20001, USA
$$$ · Vegetarian, Contemporary
One Star: High quality cooking
MICHELIN Green Star
It is highly rare for a tasting menu to leave one feeling—well—energized, but so goes the imaginative cooking at this vegetable-focused gem where local farms are the very essence of this passionate operation. The imaginative compositions from Chef Rob Rubba and his team offer delicious insights into what is possible with vegetables. There is true creativity here, as in a pasta course which features agnolotti filled with a creamy eggplant and house-grown mushrooms, served brodo-style with a roasted corn broth and accompanied by a truffle tart. Even bread service is special—enriched with "garleeks" and accompanied by sunflower seed and marigold "butter." A baton of summer squash is elevated by a filling of pumpkin seed "ricotta."

"Focused and vegetarian/vegan cuisine, small organic and regenerative local farms supply everything’s for the restaurant, and we have plots dedicated to our wants and needs; we also have a rooftop garden that supplies us with herbs, flowers, and tender greens. We turn out spent cooking oil into candle wax, our menus our printed on recycled paper embedded with wildflower seeds, and we use local Delaware sea salt that is solar evaporated. We use mainly induction and electric cooking equipment."

— Rob Rubba

Location

Monday
closed
Tuesday
17:30-20:30
Wednesday
17:30-20:30
Thursday
17:30-20:30
Friday
17:30-20:30
Saturday
17:30-20:30
Sunday
closed

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