The "refined" Turkish cuisine is "terrific" and "well priced" to boot, at this Ottoman outpost in Glover Park, one of the "few places" serving "Turkish wine" in the area; the "staff greets everyone with a smile", but "the shape of the restaurant's the most fun thing about it", since it's housed in the tip of a flatiron building (ergo you're almost "always near a window" in the "modern", almost...
This small Turkish restaurant with walls of windows on three sides is a gathering spot for D.C.'s Turkish community as well as Georgetown's Euro population. You can make a meal of meze, small plates with such morsels as cigar-shape cheese-filled phyllo pastries and rice-and-currant-stuffed grapevine leaves, or pace yourself and leave room for main courses like Iskender kebab—thin slices of veal...
Cafe Divan Restaurant Review:
This quirky Turkish restaurant on upper Wisconsin is one of the area's hottest neighborhood eateries, and opens up new vistas for Middle Eastern cooking. Set into a triangular-shaped location, the restaurant can't seat many, but it always appears to be crowded. Who could stay away from its velvety hummus and puffy, hot-from-the-oven pitas? You can keep the meal simple with a soup and sandwich...
You have to love Café Divan, just from the look of it. It's wedged into the triangular space of a building, fitting its kitchen at the wider end and tables into neat niches toward the point, as the architecture permits. Windows on two sides and rose-colored walls create a cheery ambience. You have to know what to order here -- and what not to (not the pasta dishes, for example.) Do order Middle...