Georgia Brown's: Southern Cuisine

Jodi, Christine, Synthia, Mary

The DCDC lunched today at Georgia Brown's, a restaurant located at 950 15th Street NW on McPherson Square. This lovely restaurant offers delicious Southern cuisine. Its website says it best:

"Unique in design, Georgia Brown's warmly opened its doors in 1993. Part of the visual appeal lends itself to the bronzed ceiling scroll reminiscent of grand Oak trees outstretched like a lace border over Southern streets. Blonde woods cascade through the restaurant giving a sense of calm motion, like a summer ride down a lazy river. "

Guests are encouraged to eat slowly and savor the food. We did just that. We began with mouth-watering corn bread. Then we ordered the following:

Synthia began with the split-pea soup followed by a black-eyed pea cake and Carolina red rice.

Split-Pea Soup

Black-Eyed Pea Cake and Carolina Red Rice

Jodi too began with the soup. She then savored fried green tomatoes which were, according to the menu, "stuffed with Herbed Cream Cheese and served atop a bed of Green Tomato Relish with a zesty Lemon-Cayenne Mayonnaise."

Fried Green Tomatoes

Mary opted for the Carolina Gumbo, which was "a Stew of Shrimp, Andouille Sausage, Crab, Chicken and Duck with Okra, Celery, Onions, Peppers and Red Rice."

Carolina Gumbo

I ordered the Vegetarian Sampler, which included a Black Eyed Pea Cake, a Fried Green Tomato, Carolina Red Rice, sauteed Spinach, and cole slaw.

Vegetarian Sampler

Since we were all quite full at this point, we decided to share one dessert.

Two-Dessert Sampler: Key Lime pie and sweet potato pie

The Presidents Collection

Presidential Busts, 1-44

A glass case with miniature busts of each US president stands at the entrance to the restaurant. It is very up to date. Our 44th president sits on top of the case.

President Barack Obama

Is this why the First Lady dined at this restaurant soon after her arrival in the nation's capital? She was accompanied by Second Lady Jill Biden and Mayor Fenty and his wife.

For more information on Georgia Brown's, go to its website at http://www.gbrowns.com/.

The DCDC plans to go to the new GREEN restaurant, Founding Farmers, on its next outing in April. (Click on Founding Farmers to go to its website.)