GEMINI

The Best Restaurants In Dupont Circle - Washington DC - The Infatuation

"Gemini is a kinda-sorta restaurant. It’s a natural wine shop serving some of DC’s most exciting Italian food as a mostly takeout operation. If you want to sit down to eat, you’ll need to grab one of the picnic tables that occupy the former street parking spot out front—perfect for pizza night with the kids—which fill up almost immediately after it opens at 5pm. Pasta has to be eaten inside, where there are a few tall tables and counters but no seats. And while eating pasta in an upright position might not be comfortable, it’s worth it at Gemini. There’s also an ice cream cart on the sidewalk, in case you’re not in the mood to enter a building at all. It’s an odd place with odd rules, which only adds to the magic." - tristiana hinton, omnia saed, allison robicelli