Laidback Columbia Heights restaurant The Pinch gets fancy with its fried pickle app: pretzel-crusted pickle spears, paired with horseradish mustard for dipping.

Instead of regular ol' pickles, Scion tops its namesake burger with sliced fried pickles. You can get fried pickles paired with ranch dressing as a starter too, or on special during the restaurant's happy hour from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday.

When the weather warms up, grab a picnic table and an order of half-sour fried pickles at this outdoor beer garden on 14th Street. Standard is set to open again for 2013 on March 1.

Here's what goes into Southside 815's southern fried pickles: the bread and butter pickles are pickled in-house, then sliced, flash fried in southern breading, then paired with housemade remoulade sauce.

DC9's fried pickle chips are thinly sliced and served plenty of housemade ranch on the side.

Fried pickles at Rosslyn hangout Continental are often discounted for happy hour.

Capitol Hill's Tune Inn is a shrine to all things fried, so of course fried pickles are on the menu here. The pickle spears are coated with the restaurant's special beer batter, fried and dished out with salsa ranch dressing.

Spider Kelly's lengthy list of appetizers includes thinly sliced, super crispy fried pickles with a buttermilk ranch sauce on the side.

At this neighborhood pub in Bloomingdale, the pickles spears are fried tempura-style, and paired with a dill aioli.

Order a basket of flaky sliced fried pickles at upscale hot dog joint DC3 on Barracks Row, with "secret sauce" for dipping. OK, the secret is all the major condiments - mustard, mayo, relish, and ketchup - mixed together.