Olivia Restaurant

Mediterranean restaurant · Downtown

Olivia Restaurant

Mediterranean restaurant · Downtown

800 F St NW, Washington, DC 20004

Highlights

A changing menu of Mediterranean cooking is offered with signature cocktails in rustic surrounds.

800 F St NW, Washington, DC 20004 Get directions

@eater

"Olivia, a Mediterranean-themed restaurant rebranded from NoPa Kitchen + Bar, has closed due to plummeting foot traffic. The restaurant featured Picasso replicas, white sails, and Hermes fabric-lined banquettes. It received glowing reviews for dishes like Moroccan pastries, cod rillettes, and roasted eggplant with pickled raisins. Plans are in place to reopen in a different location." - Tierney Plumb

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@michelinguide

"If you took a few row homes, opened them into one large space, and then styled them with a modern maritime sensibility (draped netting with large glass jugs), you'd have Olivia. From its white painted brick to its Edison bulb light fixtures, Olivia has a relaxed and modern elegance. Feel like throwing a party? The cute private rooms with floral themes are just the place. Like the European-focused wine list, dotted with Sicilian, Greek and French bottles, the menu skips around the continent. Chickpea ravioli, with a melange of mushrooms for a twist on bolognese, displays creativity, while the Galician-style octopus carpaccio is another keeper. Wrapped in Serrano ham and thinly sliced to resemble charcuterie, it's both tender and flavorful." - The MICHELIN Guide

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@eater

"This new-ish western Mediterranean restaurant from Ashok Bajaj offers a chilled cucumber and green chickpea gazpacho with tzatziki, za’atar, and lavash crumble ($10). Come July, Olivia will up its gazpacho game with four rotating Gazpacho y Torta specials at weekday lunch, kicking off with a watermelon-heirloom tomato gazpacho with burrata and salsa de tomate torta ($16)." - Tierney Plumb

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"The Mediterranean cooking here draws inspiration from countries across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Its burrata is served warm with a spicy green zhug sauce — common in Yemeni cooking — and garlic breadcrumbs." - Travis Mitchell

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Perks Advisor

Google

This is a beautifully designed restaurant that all has some flavorful cuisine. This is within the Penn quarter and offers a very nice bar as well as separate rooms. Service was prompt and attentive. The food has a good texture and flavor for the meal I tried. This is also a nice place to grab a drink. It is worth a visit.

Nandini Mazumdar

Google

Big big fan of the food here! Loved all their dips, the pizza, the mushroom pasta, and the dessert. Really light but amazing flavors and good portion sizes too. The ambiance / decor is so beautiful, and it’s really well located. Highly recommend, especially for a date!

Renata Kowalczyk

Google

Absolutely amazing experience, at this James Beard Foundation semi finalist. The drink was very refreshing and creative. It included fog purée and pomegranate. The freshly baked roll served with olive oil was outstanding. The appetizer included carrot hummus, eggplant and tzatiki. All good but eggplant was extraordinary. So was the cauliflower. The lamb was moist and melting in a mouth. Perfectly seasoned. The deserts were also very testy and creative. Fantastic experience!

Arpan Shah

Google

A nice Mediterranean place with lovely decor, good food and good service. Being vegetarian we tried a number of the small plates and they were all very good. We loved the complimentary hot bread with olive oil and the lavash chips. Also the harissa spicy sauce was very good.

Hilda Kroll

Google

Washington Restaurant Week is a great chance to get some fantastic food at a price you'd expect to pay for the entree alone. There are so many Mediterranean restaurants in the area, but Olivia stands out as being special. Everything was fresh, delicious, and looked beautiful on the plate. The spice blends were unusual and wonderful. A memorable meal.

Scott Besemann

Google

One of the better restaurant experiences I've had. The food was no less than outstanding. Bread service was soft and flavorable, falafel was crunchy on outside and soft..almost fluffy inside. Village salad had a little too much gets but tasted fresh and bright, seafood platter is a cant miss. Shrimp had a great char but did borderline a little overdone. Salmon was delicious but the octopus was perfect. Char on outside and sliced vs tentacles. But what really set this place on fire was the service. Professional, friendly and very attentive.

Umber Dube

Google

Our meal at Olivia was superb. Service was excellent and dishes were brought in an efficient but well paced manner. The wine list accurately showcased the regional cusines and included several rather affordable options. We ordered the following: Whole Roasted Bronzino, Crispy Lamb ‘Osso Bucco’, Galician Style Octopus Carpaccio, Chorizo Verde flat bread, Charred Romanesco Cauliflower, Mediterranean Stone Bass Crudo. All these items were delicious, but the crudo could have been more substantial. We had the Apple Tatin Tart for dessert which was well composed and tasty. Overall an excellent showing. 5/5

Dan rozier

Google

One of the best meals I've had in a long time. Every dish was delicious and presented so elegantly. Service and atmosphere were faultless too. Very reasonably priced especially considering the quality.