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Washington, D.C. Map: JaleoJaleo Frommer's Highly Recommended

Cuisine Spanish
Hours Sun-Mon 11:30am-10pm; Tues-Thurs 11:30am-11:30pm; Fri-Sat 11:30am-midnight
Address
480 7th St. NW
Location At E St, Downtown, Penn Quarter
Transportation Metro: Archives or Gallery Place (7th and F sts. exit)
Reservations Reservations accepted at lunch and on a limited basis for dinner
Phone 202/628-7949
Web site www.jaleo.com
Prices Lunch and dinner entrees $8.50-$19; tapas $5-$13; pre-theater (Tues-Sun 5-7pm) $25
Credit Cards AE, DC, DISC, MC, V

Frommer's Review

Jaleo's dining room fills and empties each evening according to the performance schedule of the Shakespeare Theater next door. Lunchtime always draws a crowd from nearby office buildings and the Hill. This restaurant and executive chef/partner José Andrés may be credited with initiating the tapas craze in Washington, where it remains popular 17 years after Jaleo debuted. Though the menu offers a handful of entrees (available only after 5pm), you really want to consider those tapas -- 60 at last count. These include a very simple but not-to-be-missed grilled bread layered with a paste of fresh tomatoes and topped with anchovies, date and bacon fritters, a skewer of grilled chorizo sausage atop garlic mashed potatoes, and gazpacho. Paella is among the few heartier entrees (it feeds two to four). Spanish wines, sangrias, and sherries are available by the glass. The casual-chic interior focuses on a large mural of a flamenco dancer inspired by John Singer Sargent's painting Jaleo.

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