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.

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.

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.

The dish: half smoke.
File under drunk food/hangover cures: a half smoke from Ben's smothered in homemade chili, mustard, and onions.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.