About DC Restaurant Openings
A guide to the newest places to eat and drink.
The Oak Room and Bernadette’s. 1218 Wisconsin Ave., NW.
The Oak Room in Georgetown wants you to feel like you’ve been transported to a Gilded Age private club in New York or London, where you can feast on prime rib, Dover sole, and fancy fish sticks with caviar beurre blanc. Upstairs is Bernadette’s, a candlelit, red-velvet-draped “supper club” with a focus on champagne and live music. Both—opening Friday, June 26—come from the hospitality group behind Union Market’s Desert 5 Spot, although don’t expect them to be anything like the country-western bar.
“The idea for Oak Room came from a pretty simple observation, which was: There were no great American dining rooms in Georgetown,” says Ten Five Hospitality managing partner Dan Daley. “We wanted to design something that made people feel like they were in a different time and place. It’s meant to feel worn and lived in, that it’s been around for 100 years.”…