This nicely furnished restaurant features southern cuisine, including chicken, catfish fingers, rock shrimp and fabulous seafood dishes. The menu may remind you of New Orleans. It's a wonderful, upscale atmosphere and if you are lucky, you can get a window table overlooking McPherson Square, which is wonderfully active and just a couple of blocks northeast of the White House. That also means Georgia Brown's is convenient to the Washington metro (that's the name of your metro station: McPherson Square). There is outdoor dining in season as well as smoking/non-smoking areas. The servers know what they are doing and the food is well-presented and prepared by people who obviously know what they are doing.
In my own case, I chose an elegant 10 oz. crab cake which was absolutely the best I've ever had. A nice bottle of white wine from an adequate list of possibilities made it a very relaxing and tasteful lunch. (The portions in this place won't send you away hungry, by the way -- they are large). There is a bar and the place can become crowded at popular times and evenings, so a reservation is a good idea.
Hours of operation:
Open Sunday through Friday for lunch and dinner, Saturday for dinner. Dinner until 10:30 Sunday through Thursday, until 11:30 Friday and Saturday. Sunday brunch 11:30 to 2:30.
A special nod goes to the Sunday Jazz Brunch. It's not cheap, but you won't go away hungry and the entertainment is marvelous. We give it very high marks! In a city that abounds with great dining choices, Georgia Brown's more than holds its own. You don't need to dress up more than business casual, but like many of the nicer places to dine in Washington, it would be difficult to ever be overdressed.