Makoto Restaurant Restaurant Review:
Under the watchful chopsticks of a different chef, Makoto is still one of those unique Japanese restaurants where the food is so sophisticated and elegant that you may be tempted to frame it as wall art. Constructed like a Japanese country inn, with a wooden entrance door leading downstairs to a small dining room, Makoto requires its guests to take off their shoes and wear special slippers. You...
"Leave your shoes – and your ego – at the door" of this tiny Palisades Japanese temple where the "exquisite jewel-box plates" on its multicourse omakase menu come to the table the "chef's way"; the setting is simple and traditional, with "hard" bench seating, but it's "unparalleled in DC" say those who "know the difference", so a little patience and a thick wallet will transport you "half a...