Bonne Vie Cafe and Bistro

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"A new U Street bistro works wonderfully for a lingering Friday night catch-up with a friend, where you can split everything on the $45 prix fixe menu—an incredible deal once you break down the cost of each course—and share a carafe of wine, like an $18 half-liter that easily carried us through the entire dinner. Classic French renditions of skirt steak and mussels paired beautifully with bottomless fries that were anything but an afterthought, coming out ultra-crispy with a blistered exterior suggestive of a double-fry or starchy coating. The fries were so plentiful we couldn’t finish the first huge silver tray and I even took some home, where they reemerged from the air-fryer just as crunchy, and we still walked away having spent about $70 each on a decadent French meal, a relative steal in D.C. now." - Missy Frederick