Chef Cedric Maupiller's festive, French-American restaurant serves everything from gourmet cheeseburgers to fried chicken "coq au vin."
Go for: A sit-down dinner
Distance from CC: 0.5 miles

First-time restaurateur Brent Kroll is an experienced sommelier who can pick out the perfect pour to try from wine regions all around the world. There's plenty of outdoor patio space, and each month the wine bar changes its menu, focusing on fun themes like wines made by women (March's theme) or grapes grown near the sea (April's theme).
Go for: Drinks
Distance from CC: 0.3 miles

This homegrown Mexican restaurant is known for its mole dishes, tacos, and mezcal-fueled drinks, as well as a weekend happy hour.
Go for: A sit-down dinner, happy hour drinks
Distance from CC: 0.2 mile

This sleek addition to Blagden Alley specializes in noodle dishes, Asian barbecue, and Hong Kong-style street food. The latest addition is a dim sum brunch available on Saturdays and Sundays.
Go for: A sit-down dinner, drinks
Distance from CC: 0.2 miles

This homey addition from chef Michael Friedman specializes in gourmet pizzas, seasonal cocktails, and Italian-American brunch offerings. The critically acclaimed Shaw restaurant spawned a Navy Yard expansion in 2018.
Go for: A casual lunch, dinner or brunch
Distance from CC: 0.2 miles

This laidback bar from the Tin Shop group in the former Smoked & Stacked space revolves around 16-ounce cans of beer, chicken wings, and grilled cheese. Eat and drink here without dropping a ton of cash, with Schlitz, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and Narragansett cans at the bar for just $5.
Go for: Drinks and bar food
Distance from CC: 0.1 mile

James Beard award-winning chef Jeremiah Langhorne's fiercely popular, Michelin-starred restaurant focuses on carefully sourced, Mid-Atlantic fare cooked over a wood-fired hearth. If dinner reservations prove elusive, try to land a seat at its first-come, first-serve wine bar, Dabney Cellar, which offers small bites in a cozy basement.
Go for: A sit-down dinner (with advance preparation), drinks
Distance from CC: 0.2 miles

This indoor-outdoor bar is tucked into an alley and tough to spot (look for a tall wooden fence). There's a heated patio bar inside, as well as a kitchen that pumps out happy hour snacks including fried eggplant and hoagies.
Go for: A quick bite or happy hour
Distance from CC: 0.2 miles

Corduroy is chef Tom Power's flagship restaurant, a long-running fixture in the neighborhood. Seasonal ingredients go into dishes like lobster carpaccio with drawn butter or roast and confit Pennsylvania chicken with maitake mushrooms.

Go for: A business dinner
Distance from CC: 0.1 mile

Cocktail guru David Strauss runs a bar that's airy, bright, and reasonably priced. Most specialty drinks run about $12, and it's a great place to order riffs off classic cocktails, like a mint julep or Negroni. In past years, the Morris has hosted a seasonal patio with boozy snowcones.
Go for: Drinks
Distance from CC: 0.1 mile

This local chain has a location in the grand lobby of the convention center that’s perfect for a quick breakfast or a caffeine fix. A favorite specialty drink is the hazelnut latte.
Go for: A quick bite or coffee
Distance from CC: In the grand lobby

James Beard Foundation Award-winning chef Eric Ziebold works two restaurants into one space: An intimate, Michelin-starred tasting menu spot called Metier on the lower level, and a la carte, Michelin-starred dining room, Kinship, up above.
Go for: A business dinner
Distance from CC: 0.1 mile

Chef Victor Albisu has transformed South American steakhouse Del Campo into Poca Madre, an upscale Mexican restaurant with photos of Frida Kahlo on the walls and greenery everywhere. Start with mezcal cocktails and order a shareable pato al pastor (slow roasted Long Island duck served with pineapple, onions, cilantro, and corn tortillas) for the table.

Go for: A sit-down dinner
Distance from CC: 0.2 miles