PS 7's

Conveniently located in Washington, DC's Penn Quarter neighborhood, PS 7's was recently named one of Washingtonian Magazine's Top 100 Restaurants. Our menu features Chef Peter Smith's playful take on Contemporary American cuisine, showcased in the warm, sweeping design by GrizForm Design Architects. Specializing in seasonal, locally grown ingredients, Chef Smith offers his guests a variety of...

This restaurant manages to be at once swanky yet youthful, and its bar scene is hip but low-key, with inventive cocktails and nibbles like miniature Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches, spinach salad with tender chunks of bacon and fried onions, and an irresistible "nutty goat" flatbread. In the elegant sunken dining room the menu reads like a tasting menu, but the portions are hardly tiny. The diner...

Playing with his food may be one of a kid’s happiest pastimes. So what happens when you find a very upscale restaurant owned and cooked for by a chef who also likes to play with his food? The answer is simple: sit back and have fun, too. One of executive chef Peter Smith’s biggest culinary triumphs may be his skill with curing his own meats: hence the menu mainstay of homemade hot dogs---small,...

Homegrown celebrity chef-in-the-making parades adorable food that's eager to please. Morels and foie gras ensure you can't make any of this at home. That and the red meat's never monogamous, preferring three ways. Cross-dressing cocktails and mini desserts titillate an otherwise reserved Washingtonian power class who power dress. Affected laughs warm the mod autumnal periphery but goldfish in...

Chef Peter Smith opened PS7's in 2006 after many years working the kitchen at the award-winning Vidalia . His culinary artistry is on excellent display here, but first you must navigate the fey menu, which organizes foods in categories of "Cool" (salads and such), "Hot" (soups and pastas), "Aqua" (fish), and "Terra" (meats). And though the portions are small, the food is rich and delicious. I...

The menu offers a smorgasbord of food trends, but stick to the minimalist dishes.