Maybe that last cocktail was a bad idea. If last night is kicking your butt this morning, here are 16 spots with dishes that will help make you feel like a human again. From greasy spoons to dim sum to donut sandwiches, there's something for every hangover craving here.
— Adele Chapin
DC's Guide to Hangover-Friendly Restaurant Dishes
Osman & Joe's Steak 'n Egg Kitchen
The dish: steak and eggs.
Greasy, filling diner food from an actual greasy diner. Breakfast is served here 24/7, so expect to find hungover students and locals digging into plates of steak, eggs, hash browns and breakfast sandwiches.
Pho 75
The dish: Pho #1.
Rehydrate with a bowl of Pho 75's much-hyped broth. The Arlington and Falls Church Pho 75 locations both open at 9 a.m. every day, making breakfast recovery pho a viable option.
Heller's Bakery
The dish: breakfast sandwiches.
Mount Pleasant residents may have a love/hate relationship with Heller's Bakery, but their breakfast sandwiches are pretty damn tasty on a hungover morning. Make it there by 2:30 p.m. to order an egg and cheese with sausage, ham, or turkey on toast, a bagel, or croissant.
Stoney's Restaurant
The dish: grilled cheese.
What makes the Super Grilled Cheese at Stoney's so super? Plenty of tomatoes, thick-cut bacon, red onions in between gooey layers of American cheese.
Ben's Chili Bowl
The dish: half smoke.
File under drunk food/hangover cures: a half smoke from Ben's smothered in homemade chili, mustard, and onions.
Taylor Gourmet
The dish: breakfast hoagies.
The Aramingo Avenue breakfast sub at Taylor Gourmet is a full breakfast crammed on a hoagie — think bacon, sausage, hash browns, eggs, American cheese plus beer cheese sauce. Somehow still hungry? The breakfast risotto balls include sausage, bacon and Taylor's pork roll.
Jimmy T's Place
The dish: eggs and bacon.
Jimmy T's Place, a cute little dive in Capitol Hill, serves simple, classic breakfast food off the griddle, like bacon, pancakes, eggs, toast, and coffee poured into mismatched mugs.
Florida Avenue Grill
The dish: grits.
Florida Avenue Grill has been serving up hearty breakfasts since 1944, and seems untouched by time. Try the buttery grits, salmon cakes, hot cakes and buttermilk biscuits
Eammon's Arlington
The dish: Dream Burger.
Imagine a burger with two beef patties, topped with shaved turkey, then salami, then bacon. That's the Eamonn's Dream Burger, a real item on menu at the new Eamonn's in Arlington. Order with the Hangover Chips, topped with a fried egg and curry sauce.
Bethesda Bagels
The dish: bagels.
Carbo-load at Bethesda Bagels in Dupont Circle, with a toasted bagel with cream cheese, or bagel sandwiches with cheese, scrambled egg or egg whites and sausage, bacon or ham.
The Passenger
The dish: waffle breakfast sandwich.
No matter how late you sleep in, you can still make it to The Passenger's hangover brunch, which starts at 2 p.m. and runs till 11 p.m. The brief menu includes bacon and chive scrambled eggs in a waffle breakfast sandwich, as well as biscuits and gravy and chilaquiles.
Full Kee Restaurant
The dish: egg drop soup.
Even the most hungover should be able to handle a steaming hot bowl of egg drop soup at Full Kee, a no-frills spot in Chinatown that opens at 11 a.m.
Hollywood East Cafe
The dish: congee.
In Wheaton, Hollywood East Cafe offers stomach-calming congee, either plain or with beef, chicken, pork, or seafood. Dim sum is also available daily till 3:00 p.m.
South Block Cafe
The dish: Super Green Smoothie.
The selection of healthy, non-dairy smoothies at South Block cafe in Clarendon includes the Super Green, a combination of raw kale, pineapple juice, mango, and banana.
The Diner
The dish: banana nut buttermilk pancakes.
Banana nut buttermilk pancakes —and blueberry and chocolate chip pancakes, too — served from 6 a.m. to midnight make The Diner an ever-popular brunch spot for diners recovering from last night.
GBD (Golden Brown Delicious)
The dish: The Luther
ChurchKey was the pioneer for doughnut sandwiches with The Luther, a fabulously artery-clogging brunch dish. GBD has now taken up the task with its own version. Fried chicken and applewood bacon are nestled between two halves of a maple-and-chicken-jus-glazed brioche doughnut, topped with candied pecans. It's $12, with fries.