![]() It is easy enough for you to learn how to recognize a sick goat. However, goats have their own language too. Restaurant: Tail Up Goat (Washington, D.C.If goats could only tell people how they feel, it would be easier to for their owners to tell what their problem is. ![]() Remembering Michel Richard: Le Kit Kat Bar.Tail Up Goat, 1827 Adams Mill Road (one block north of Columbia Road entrance is on Lanier Place), Washington, D.C. With excellent food and service that matches, it's a worthy addition to our city's growing roster of high-caliber eating establishments. It was one of the best meals we've had recently in a restaurant-old or new. Tail Up Goat more than earned its spot as one of Bon Appétit's 50 best new restaurants list. If you can't make up your mind what to get, your in good hands here if you just ask for help. While I know the restaurant is known for its sommelier, it was our server who made the excellent recommendations for what we should drink when we wanted to follow our cocktails with a glass of wine (the sommelier poured the wine, so we benefited from his insight too). The almond cake she recommended for dessert, for example, was incredibly good, moist, flavorful and dotted with toasted almonds, musk-melon cubes and whipped yogurt. I didn't feel like I was being offered something that that kitchen needed to get rid of, but rather something she really liked. It's nice when a server has clear affection for the food and can really sell the dishes while offering spot-on recommendations. And their excitement about the restaurant seemed genuine. Everyone was friendly, including a manager who came by and thanked us for coming. I expected the food at Tail Up Goat to be good, but I was pleasantly surprised by the caliber of its service. Nice to see a restaurant that clearly takes keeping its guests happy quite seriously. Sure, it took some time for us to get our drinks, but our server-who was extremely delightful the entire evening-acknowledged this, apologized for it and even comped the drinks, which we didn't expect at all. Would the swamped staff still be on top of their game? Would the kitchen rush orders and cut corners? Thankfully, there was no need for concern at Tail Up Goat, where we enjoyed a sensational meal. Unsurprisingly, Tail Up Goat was quite busy when we had dinner there on Saturday. ![]() Although I've not visited either of those restaurants, I've heard enough good things for me to set fairly high expectations for this new endeavor (also on this year's Bon Appétit list: The Dabney, the Southern-leaning restaurant with the open-hearth kitchen where we enjoyed a very memorable dinner earlier this year). ![]() ![]() One of the names on this year's list just happens to be Tail Up Goat, opened earlier this year by three former employees of Komi and Little Serow. Since opening 5 years ago, the heat of Little Serow's buzz has been matched only by the chilies in its Thai-style dishes. The only other entry to make the top 10 so far was Little Serow in 2012 (#7), the basement offshoot of acclaimed Greek restaurant Komi. has notched 10 restaurants on the list, including the magazine's #1 pick for 2014, Rose's Luxury. The list was introduced as top-10 in 2009 since its expansion to a top-50 in 2012, D.C. Of course the James Beard Awards are the biggest-deal of the big-deal prizes, but another notable indicator, especially of new restaurants, is Bon Appétit magazine's list of the country's best new restaurants. Restaurant accolades are a big deal these days in D.C., where the buzz about our constantly improving restaurant scene just continues to get louder. ![]()
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