La Vie
Mediterranean restaurant · Waterfront ·
Mediterranean & American fare with creative cocktails & waterfront views
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Mediterranean & American fare with creative cocktails & waterfront views
"With excellent food, unrivaled cocktails and the Atlantic Ocean just a few meters away, it’s no wonder La Vie is a firm favourite with Sea Point locals. Although it’s buzzing all day every day, the restaurant and bar comes to life when nearby office doors close, and working urbanites come looking for a place to wind down and enjoy the Cape Town sunset." - Brand New Creative
"A sparkling Mediterranean restaurant on the Wharf where Carlos Delgado has been named culinary director." - Missy Frederick
"A sit-down restaurant at gate 522 offering pasta, pizza, and eggplant Parmesan—positioned as a fuller-service dining option within the concourse for travelers seeking an Italian-style meal before departure." - Nadia Chaudhury
"A celebrated D.C. chef from Shaw’s tasting room Causa exclusively tells Eater he’s the newly named culinary director of the Wharf’s sparkling Mediterranean restaurant, a glassy, high-end perch above the Potomac that helped christen the Southwest Waterfront development in 2018 but was almost immediately overlooked for its food after one eviscerating zero-star review from Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema. Delgado frames his involvement as a fun challenge to reverse its reputation as a sheer “tourist trap,” noting that the place “can be a nice restaurant — it needs to work on the backend and have people come here for the food, not [just] the view.” He isn’t leaving Causa — which was named one of Eater’s Best New Restaurants in America soon after opening in 2022, earned its first Michelin star, and helped land Delgado a 2025 James Beard Award finalist nod for Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic — but has recruited Aseem Charan (a CIA grad who most recently worked at Zaytinya) to be chef de cuisine and mentor: “[Aseem] is killing it and on his way up,” says Delgado. The restaurant will keep its Mediterranean focus and in-house pastry program that travels through Southern Italy and Greece, but is beginning a gradual menu overhaul that starts with edits such as making its fluffy pita bread in-house and fine-tuning its burrata with peak spring ingredients; the revamped menu is “20-percent” different for now, with a mid-summer lineup expected to be largely new and leaning toward more small passed plates. The chandelier-adorned dining room also received a slight remodel ahead of the menu reboot, and the restaurant group behind it, Eaternity (which runs Nary-Ya and Kinfolk at the Wharf), is preparing to open a new Latin restaurant near Navy Yard." - Tierney Plumb
"If you're looking for classic DC day party vibes on this 4th of July Tuesday, head to La Vie at the Wharf. The party runs from 4-10pm, so it starts late enough that you can sleep in and ends early enough that you can still make it to work on Wednesday. It's another SRO situation, so wear comfy shoes, which you'll also need if you're planning to dance to the DJ's tunes." - tristiana hinton
