My Little Chamomile

Little Chamomile is a nice option in Georgetown for anyone into Mediterranean flavors—especially the mezze-style dips like eggplant and labne, which are solid picks. The atmosphere is cozy and chill, great for catching up with friends over good small plates. Prices are a bit high, but everything looks and tastes fresh, making it worth a try if you’re in the area.

Hidden gem tucked in a side street of Georgetown. Feels like a home cooked Turkish meal. Really pleasant staff and ambience. We had the eggplant dip, manti, and lamb skewers. Small portions for the price but all very well flavored! Highly recommend.

Nestled in the charming streets of Georgetown, My Little Chamomile is a well-kept secret for anyone in search of an exceptional Turkish and Mediterranean cuisine. From the inviting ambiance, amazing service and great dishes this is definitely a must visit in DC! It is quite literally a hidden gem, so I have included the map we used to find the restaurant!

Very cozy spot in Georgetown. My wife and I went during the week and sat at the bar. Food good and reasonably priced. I would just say they could give a bit more per plate.

This new, hidden gem is a refreshing experience for the otherwise overrun Georgetown dining establishments elsewhere. Hidden down a lantern-lit alleyway is this minimalist dining room where the hospitality and service is top-notch. The Turkish-mezze menu is simple, focusing on layered and surprising flavor. We had an array of shareables--from endless homemade sesame breads, lebneh in bright, herby flavors (that I have not quite experienced from other chefs), smoky eggplant, a dill and pomegranate salad, and a not-to-miss vegan lentil soup that was perfectly creamy with a hint of citrus. More surprising were the desserts: understated on the menu, they were subtly sweet and equally decadent, just the kind I adore. We loved our experience and would highly recommend this well-priced dining room. The biggest bonus of all are the gracious hosts, whose smiles, passion, and welcoming presence is most authentic, and was perhaps the best part of the entire evening.

Had an absolutely fabulous dinner with 4 friends..they were so accommodating and every single dish we had was better than the last. The lamb skewers are unbeatable and the Bronzino was perfectly cooked.

Very good food but a very poor value for what you get, rushed service, and an uninspired interior. We started with three of the salads / apps which were all fantastic, and one "main" dish (we weren't that hungry) of lamb and eggplant. However, the lamb + eggplant was no bigger than any of the small plates and amounted to 3 or so bites. Dessert was quite good. We were in and out in an hour. Service felt rushed, like they were trying to turn the table over as quickly as possible, and we didn't care for the environment. Felt very sparse and not that cozy. If we're paying that much then the environment should at least feel special. They also don't have a full bar (I couldn't get a gin and tonic) and they didn't have decaf coffee, which I found strange. For good middle eastern in the neighborhood Villa Yara and Alara are both a significantly better value with food that's just as good (albeit less creative and more traditional) and more options + availability.

Cozy, authentic restaurant serving traditional Turkish cuisine with a homey touch. The dishes are simple yet full of flavor, truly capturing the essence of Turkish home cooking. We tried the kabak çiçeği dolması, dedemin biberi, mantı, and hünkar beğendi. The dolma was beautifully spiced and absolutely delicious. Dedemin biberi may look simple, but one bite delivers a burst of flavors — tangy, spicy, savory, and slightly sweet all at once. The mantı was impressively light, with delicately thin dough. And the hünkar beğendi was the highlight of the meal — the eggplant base was rich, deeply flavorful, and clearly made in-house with care. A perfect spot for a cozy date night, a relaxed gathering with friends, or introducing someone to the wonderful flavors of Turkish cuisine.

A wonderful dinner! The service and atmosphere is cozy and welcoming. Now for the food: - Girit Ezmesi 5/5 lovely tangy dip and comes with nice and warm bread - Mevsim Salatası 2/5 this just wasn't for us, super acidic and the radishes were overwhelmingly large and thick - Çöp Şiş 4/5 very small skewers but tenderly cooked lamb, the lavash was nice but I don't think really meshed well with the dish - Zeytinyağlı Enginar 5/5 tender and perfectly braised artichokes, good portion and just if you like artichokes, you'll like this - Hünkar Beğendi 5/5 if nothing else, you have to get this. Amazingly creamy eggplant and tender lamb, my husband and I fought about how much each person ate - the alley cat who lives outside 10000/5 so friendly and adorable

Cute cozy Turkish restaurant hidden in the alleys of Georgetown! Highly recommend making a reservation. Service was excellent, and our server was very knowledgeable and helpful. We started off with 2 dips with bread: Girit Ezmesi and Közlenmiş Patlıcan Salatası (eggplant). Very interesting flavors - I enjoyed them. Our main dishes were Çöp Şiş (lamb skewers), Mercimek Çorbasi (red lentil soup), and Manti (beef dumplings). These were definitely more of my favorite dishes. All were delicious and filling! We enjoyed our meal here, but it's on the pricier side. Excellent place to celebrate or treat yourself.

Throughly impressed! Stumbled upon this place on open table - thought we'd try since my family who lives near the area had not been and the reviews on open table were quite good The reservations on the weekend ran out fast. Place is quite small but has a bar with table service that seems it could accommodate 5-6 at max. Mostly smaller groups were there. Service was great - quick, knowledgeable server and friendly. Always enjoy a personable and social server! Ambience was cozy, a little bar in the corner with a few tables. It's a little small but I saw that they could accommodate 1-2 larger parties. It's a little hard to find (have to go down an alleyway) but the area is super cute and I feel like the search is what makes it more special! They do put a decent amount of signage to help you find it, but would recommend keeping an eye open for them. Use your phone map of choice! Food was beyond expectations. We ended buying what seemed like almost half the menu! Absolutely delicious will be back soon!

When a meal is so complete in flavors and presentation, I find that it warms me head to toe and body to soul. Every bite at my little chamomile was wonderfully vibrant and fun. We got a series of shared plates with so much diversity in their assembly, yet all still fitting so well together. My favorite was likely the Manti (beef dumplings) as they were so cute and sat within a delightful tangy sauce. The fried anchovies were a special but should 100% make their way onto everyone's table given the chance! Service was a little slow, but the restaurant was packed (good thing I got a reservation early, even for a Thursday night). The entrance is not exactly where Google maps will take you so make sure to follow the signs! Can't wait to come back and see what else I can try!

I'm an avid, rabid calamari fan and the ones here are excellent. Highly recommend. The pomegranate salad, grilled lamb, dumplings, baba ghanoush were excellent as well. All were well balanced, shareable, made with great quality ingredients. Turkish coffee was strong and stunning, and dessert was light fare-thee-well. Service top notch. Quaint and intimate place with homey elegant vibes. No complaints. Go.

The service was wonderful, and the food is delicious. I also really enjoyed my clementine Italian soda. The portions are smaller and meant to be shared, but still I found them to be a bit overpriced for the size. My group had shared the Girit Esmesi- which was our favorite of the night- so delicious and comes with fresh warm bread- as well as the anchovies, lamb with eggplant and manti, which was sooooo delicious but also so tiny leaving you wanting more. The Mozaik chocolate pistachio dessert was heavenly! The star of the show is their lamb, which is soft and tender and so tasty. It's a nice atmosphere with ambient lighting and cozy tables. Another highlight? They also have a friendly alleycat named Cracker Jack outside who is precious. Will definitely be back!

Fantastic food and a great vibey place for a date or a nice, trendy meals with friends. The service was a bit slow so we were here for 2+ hours but the food came out pretty quick. It was packed even on a Thursday night so make sure you have a reservation. This was a fun tapas meal. The eggplant and braised lamb was my favorite but everyone at my table had different favorites, the fried anchovies were interesting and perfectly fried. The salad was a perfect balance to the rest of the dishes, very minty and herbal

Thank goodness for good maps! I would have never found this place in a million years, but it looked close enough after a show at Blues Alley...and it was! Cross over the canal, head down an alley, enter...what looks sort of like a boutique hotel...and you'll be in Turkish food heaven. I should have taken a pic of the menu because it changes often and I don't remember exactly what we had, other than the hunkar begendi, which was the best I've ever had. Light, but loaded with flavor. We sat at the bar, had lots of polite banter with our waitress, and generally felt like a couple of swells. I'll be back!

Chef Cagla's cooking comes with love. Every dish is created with care, thought, and is well executed. If you're a fan of Green Almond Pantry in Georgetown, you'll enjoy My Little Chamomile, a restaurant tucked away in an alley serving dishes inspired by the Mediterranean. My friend and I made a 7:30pm reservation on a Thursday. Here's our experience. 1) Food: As of March 2025, the menu includes eight daily specials, five items from "Mom's Kitchen," two larger plates from the grill, and two desserts. My friend and I were coming from happy hour so we weren't super hungry, but the plates tend to be smaller so what we ordered was perfect. Every dish was well-made and tasty, but the winners were the Girit Ezmesi (feta, labneh, goat cheese, and pistachio) with the house bread and the manti, which are small, but each one unique and handmade. The pepper and artichoke were good too, but not as flavorful as the other two dishes. For dessert, the chocolate is big and comes with pistachios baked into it with delicious whipped cream on top. 2) Service: What a great experience! The host and server made us feel like family. They are genuinely passionate about the chef's cooking and their energy is contagious. 3) Space: It's one dining room with a few tables that sit two or four and a large bar. It wasn't full when we arrived early around 7pm, but by 8pm, it was packed. 4) Neighborhood: There's a lot to explore in Georgetown, especially this part of the neighborhood. Parking is always a challenge, but we found easy street parking nearby along Potomac Street NW.

Following up on the friendly review in Tom Sietsema's final list of top DC area restaurants, we had a nice dinner here on Friday evening. Not so easy to find, tucked away in an alley off a Georgetown side street, we entered the dining room and were nervous about being close to the door (given how cold it was outside) but not only were we warm enough but being at the edge of the dining area made it a tad quieter, We started off with a basket of their homemade bread, warm, tasty and moist, Our small plates included eggplant, chicken salads with walnuts, dumplings (manti), lentil soup. And the chocolate pistachio dessert with whipped cream was intense

This hidden gem is tucked inside a Georgetown alleyway. Follow the cobblestones and look for the My Little Chamomile sign - otherwise, you might miss it! The Turkish restaurant and bar was opened by Chef Cagla, formerly of the Green Almond Pantry and Etto. They used Kickstarter to bring their vision to life, and I'm glad it's come to fruition! (it's the little chamomile that could!) It's an adorable space that feels cozy and like you're eating at someone's home! The servers emphasized that this is meant to feel like "mom's cooking." All the dishes are Mediterranean-style, veggie-forward, simple, clean and light - it feels so nourishing and good for you! My friend and I came here on a whim one weeknight. All the tables were booked on Open Table, but they still had a handful of walk-in seats open at the bar. Score! We ordered: Girit Ezmesi - a labneh starter dip with goat cheese and pistachio. The pistachio gave it a grittier texture, but it was still a tasty vehicle for their fresh bread. Manti - This was a surprise favorite! Order this dish! It's beef dumplings with a light yogurt sauce. I wasn't sure about the combo, but it was spiced perfectly with a delicate, al dente dumpling skin. Yum! Lentil soup with buttery croutons - Delicious and also nourishing. Hunkar Begendi - lamb with smokey eggplant. The lamb was dry and hard to chew. The eggplant was a little one-note with not much flavor, except for the smokiness. This is the only dish that gave me pause. Enginar Dolmasi - we ordered this, but they forgot to serve it. I totally got caught up talking with my friend, so didn't notice until the end of the night! sad, will have to come back for it! this was the dish I was most looking forward to trying (and not sure if they charged me for it, doh!) For dessert, we ordered the Tel Kadayik - which is phyllo with walnuts in a sweet syrup. Can't go wrong with this one. I'll be back when the menu changes again. Overall, this is a warm, welcoming spot that feels like sunshine. I'll have to see if the other main meat options are better than the one we chose.

Girit Ezmesi: Excellent! Wonderful spread with freshly baked pide bread. We had to get extra bread so we could scrap up every morsel! Yaprak sarma: Finally stuffed grape leaves that aren't cold!! Delicious stuffing and sauce, a must try. Manti: Tiny little dumplings that were quite tasty and had a good sauce, I just wish the dumplings were a little bigger so you can taste the filling more, but overall they are great. Cop sis: 5 lamb skewers with an amazing crpsuy bread that has a great topping. You use it to take the meat off the stick and eat it all at once. Really good dish, my only minor gripe is that the bread is a little too crispy on the edges to use as a utensil, but we'll worh it. Tel kadayif: Phenomenal version of baklava! Crunchy strings of phyllo (i think) on the top give it a delightful crunch. I want more! Kabak dolmasi: Squash blossoms were fine, the rice inside had a nice flavor, but it lacked the punch of the other dishes. I enjoyed it but I will try something else next time. Mozaik: Chocolate cake with unsweetened whip cream. My wife liked it but wished the whip cream was sweet since the cake has a strong dark chocolate flavor but was not sweetened. We had excellent service and its very nice inside. We will be back ASAP!

My Little Chamomile is a gem. We started with the Ezme -- a perfect tomato dip, like Turkish salsa -- fresh, bright, and acidic. The feta-pistachio dip was rich and creamy, the smoked eggplant so good you could eat it by the spoon. Lamb skewers came with a crisp cracker-like lavash and, again, that perfect tomato touch. The NY Strip with corn and cooked-down tomatoes, seasoned with dried oregano, completely changed how I think about pairing those flavors -- absolutely perfect. Dessert was the chocolate-pistachio Mozaik with whipped cream, indulgent but balanced. They've expanded their wine list, and a pink skin-contact Beaujolais paired beautifully with every dish. Chef Çağla and her warm, talented team have created a romantic, nostalgic space -- terra-cotta walls, candlelight -- that feels special without being fussy or loud. An approachable counterpoint to spots like Albi and La Shukran, and one I'll keep coming back to.

I've come here for both brunch and dinner, and both menus are fantastic. The food is so fresh and light. We ordered *almost* everything on the menu, and loved it all. We got the whole branzino during dinner, it was simple but delicious. The lamb skewers were great. My favorite dish was the Anaheim peppers with vinegar, I LOVED it. We did the same for brunch and ordered almost the whole menu. Again, no regrets. The tomato tart was fantastic. We had the butter and jam for dessert, so good. Steak and eggs were cooked to perfection. My Little Chamomile is my new favorite restaurant.

We've loved Green Almond Pantry for years, and were so excited when My Little Chamomile opened up. The food at Chamomile is just as delicious, but even more refined. Every single dish on the menu is a winner. The staff here are also fantastic. Everyone has been both kind and well informed of the menu. We love it here and are so happy to have Cagla in the neighborhood.

cute restaurant tucked in georgetown, by the same chef as my favorite green almond pantry came in with really high expectations and while some of the dishes were great (the smoked eggplant and the peppers), i was disappointed by the meat dishes.

This is a super lovely restaurant, tucked away in an alley in a cozy spot. They were very accommodating when we had to change our party size. We had Girit Ezmesi (the pistachios added a great touch), eggplant salad, hunkar begendi, and manti. we all especially loved the hunkar begendi, and the manti was definitely the star of the night. Two of these dishes came with a side of fluffy, light, focaccia-like bread. So by the end, we were so full--just the two of us with these dishes--that we couldn't finish them. We also had their house wine by the glass. The service was great --our server was super lovely. We'll definitely come back and bring more of our friends next time!

Great service, great food and great drinks! And they easily accommodated my lactose intolerance. Couldn't ask for better! Favorites were the dumplings, artichokes, fava bean spread, and the philo/walnut dessert (which I couldn't eat as it had butter, but my dinner companions loved it).

I'm a longtime Green Almond Pantry fan, so I was thrilled to try My Little Chamomile. The moment we walked up to the restaurant we were greeted by a friendly little cat, which made us feel like we had been transported back to Turkey. Upon entering the restaurant, we were greeted with a beautiful, clean, yet warm and welcoming atmosphere. The star of the show, of course, was the food. We ordered nearly every vegetarian dish on the menu and were delighted by each one. I dined with my dad and sister and between the three of us, each had our own favorite dishes. I adored the artichoke and my dinner here led me to make artichoke at home for several days following this meal. My sister loved the labneh and my dad adored the eggplant dish, but you can't go wrong with anything you choose. Each bite felt fresh, nourishing, and delicious. The servers were incredibly attentive and thoughtful, answering all of our questions and making sure our needs were met. Also, definitely don't skip out on dessert. We shared the chocolate pistachio slice and were delighted to indulge in the rich dark chocolate paired with an unsweetened but fresh cream. Since the restaurant focuses on fresh and seasonal ingredients, I can't speak more specifically to the menu, but based on my first meal there, I'll definitely be frequenting this restaurant. The Green Almond Pantry team has knocked it out of the park with this one and I'm so happy to see this passion project being so successful!

Second time to My Little Chamomile... Food is delicious Waitstaff lovely Meal magnifique!

Absolutely loved MLC. The smoked eggplant dish was my favorite. The girit ezmesi also was an excellent option. Service was very good. Servers were very willing to engage and recommend.

Wonderful across the board! Delicious food. Delightful service. Cool ambiance tucked down a little back alley. Reasonably priced, particularly for Georgetown. Best dishes were eggplant and lamb and Manti dumplings. Expect I will be a frequent guest.

Super cute, stylish, and they were so kind to us when there was some confusion surrounding the reservation. At first I was nervous because the portions were TINY, but the food was so delicious. And surprisingly, even though we ordered doubles on some things (for example, a meat dumpling dish that looked like it was made for a dolls' tea set), and we got a $60 branzino dish to share, the bill was reasonable for Georgetown. The chef is clearly gifted, but I'm not clear why the portions are so minuscule. It's a five-star place anyway, though, because of the ambiance, the nice staff, and the lovely food. Next time I'll go in knowing to order more than I think I'll want. Just one tip for the owners. GET SOME NOISE REDUCTION GEAR, please!!! You can buy it cheaply (https://www.amazon.com/Soundproofing-Acoustic-Studio-Foam-Panels/dp/B06XRJX82F?th=1) and put it up around the room, especially focusing on corners, and big, blank walls. Either that or hang quilts. The noise level is ridiculous, but I still really like this place and want it to thrive. Go! Take your friends. Have a great time.

We loved My Little Chamomile! I lived in Turkey for three years and this meal brought back so many memories!

I almost don't want to post about how amazing this restaurant is to keep it a hidden gem, but the food, staff, atmosphere is too good to keep to ourselves. Truly wonderful exoerience.

The host man at the front was rude. We came first, had reservations, and asked if we can sit by the window. The host ignored us and gave the table to someone came later than us and they also asked for that different table. The manager was unapologetic. He doesn't know how to run a restaurant

Continuously disappointed by restaurants that think it's okay to break the law and not serve disabled people who can't access the building. They did hit me with several long messages about how much they "really care" but no action in all this time.

The service was super home-y and warm and so was the ambiance. Don't miss the feta, labneh cheese dip or the beef dumplings. Excited to go back!

The food was delicious and so fresh. The service was excellent. We felt like we were in the chefs kitchen

Can't say enough great things about MLC. Food is fantastic. It is IMHO the best Turkish restaurant in the area. The owner and staff are all so lovely, which makes the experience so great. I felt transported to Türkiye.

Thrilled to have My Little Chamomile as our new downstairs neighbor--it's a cozy, welcoming spot that feels like an instant classic. As a huge fan of Green Almond Pantry, I was excited to see familiar Turkish flavors with their own twist. The lentil soup, labneh, and pomegranate-herb salad were all standouts. Desserts are quietly amazing, and the house bread is dangerously good. We're lucky to have them in the building.