Peacock Café
American restaurant · Georgetown ·
American dishes & wine selection in a sleek space
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American dishes & wine selection in a sleek space
"Chef Maziar Farivar and his brother Shahab Farivar own this decades-old staple that serves a range of vibrant salads, sandwiches, pastas, and vegetarian chili nachos. Chef Maziar draws from his Persian roots with specials like mahi torsh-o shirin, a pistachio-crusted cod with a sweet and sour sauce of dried apricot, figs, sour cherries, and almond. Dine inside or on the patio. On the same block sits decades-old power spot Cafe Milano." - Tierney Plumb
"A Georgetown fixture that would normally be preparing white-clothed tables for A-listers and black-tie gala-goers on Inauguration Day, the cafe faced a much quieter transition this year; owner Shahab Farivar says he 'has plenty of Champagne' after stocking up and expects he may be left with extra bottles given the subdued celebration." - Eater Staff
"Tucked off a quiet residential strip on Prospect Street NW in Georgetown, I describe Peacock Cafe as a white-clothed, A-lister-ready spot whose owner Shahab Farivar says he “stocked up” on Champagne and still plans to mark the inauguration in some fashion; he fondly recalls star-studded nights like Obama’s second inauguration in 2013. Its popular menu items include seafood jambalaya, steak frites, rigatoni and grilled chicken, and its location makes outdoor dining, takeout, and delivery relatively viable — but Farivar estimates lunch and dinner sales this week will be just a tenth of what they could have been, roughly $4,000–$6,000 versus the $60,000–$70,000 a moderately priced restaurant might generate during a typical peak inauguration period." - Tierney Plumb
"I've known the nearly 30-year-old Peacock Cafe in Georgetown as the brothers' original spot, opened in 1991 with an American-friendly menu of salads and grilled meats; starting around 2010, after an invitation to cook at the James Beard House for a Nowruz dinner, Maziar Farivar began offering Persian specials a couple days per week, and several of those dishes proved popular enough with non-Iranians to become permanent menu items and ultimately convinced the brothers they could open a restaurant solely dedicated to food from their homeland." - Gabe Hiatt
"I note that Peacock Cafe is described as a Georgetown favorite, and its owners are the ones opening the new Vintage78 Persian restaurant in Dupont." - Adele Chapin