Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Neyla: A Mediterranean Grill

3206 N Street NW
Washington, DC 20007

For a belated birthday dinner, I went with some friends to Neyla for Restaurant Week. The atmosphere was really great! When we arrived for a 7 o'clock reservation on a Sunday night the restaurant was maybe a quarter full. But it did pick up through the night. I had a sweet spiced chicken and almond spice pastilla, the chicken shish taouk ith Lebanese almond rice and the chocolate fondant dessert. The pastilla was a great mix of sweet and savory and the phillo dough was cooked really well. The main chicken dish was a bit to oniony for me, but the rice was amazing and the chicken moist. Of course by the time we got to dessert I was so full it wasn't funny. But the chocolate cake was good even though we all thought it was going to have some type of chocolatey inside.

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