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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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