Looking for food? Or is whiskey the priority? At Boundary Stone, those are the two menus available, and the whiskey one is more extensive. When it comes to food, there's fish and chips ($16) and steak frites ($15). Fortunately, the restaurant also offers five different kinds of sandwiches, and makes a mean batch of fried pickles.

This Shaw restaurant keeps it simple indeed. For the first course, there are seven different options (they change regularly), including a wild mushroom blintz with garlic sauce or a red snapper bisque. The second course has six selections. Or diners can go all out with the "Chef's Surprise Five Course Tasting Menu". And that's about it.

Adams Morgan's Japanese donburi (rice bowl) restaurant has a menu as simple as...well, rice. The restaurant has eight different donburi options with a few selection of drinks as well. Short, simple, and to the point. And with a 14-seat bar, space can be a little bit of luxury but worth the hassle for the donburi.

With a name like Medium Rare, not much should be expected but steaks. For dinner, there's one option: a fixed price ($20) steak dinner. The hard part is choosing dessert. There are five options. And there's no need to venture to Cleveland Park for this simplicity since Medium Rare has brought its steaks to Barracks Row. Spike Mendeslohn's Bearnaise has a similar concept, but has been broadening its menu recently.

The subtitle for Derek Brown's Shaw jamon abode is "eat more ham and other things". And that's pretty true. The food menu is one page and half of that is the drink list. (That's not including the separate sherry menu.) The rest of the menu is different kinds of ham, several small plates, a selection of snacks, and three things to take care of the sweet tooth. But the focus here is sherry and ham. Don't forget it.

The Barracks Row bastion of food delights pleases its customers with a limited selection of goodies. Aaron Silverman and his team have three cold dishes, two warm ones, three pastas, and three "other goods" for foodies to choose from. For those sharing and caring, there are two family-style options, including a pork schnitzel and a smoked brisket.

Enough with the small plates already. But fortunately, Thally also has big ones. Its menu has five small plates, a few more bigger ones, and a several salads and a soup. Thally's list of drinks, especially the bourbons and whiskeys, is longer than the menu.

Toki Underground delivers time and time again. The menu doesn't really change, and it doesn't have to since people will still wait hours to eat the ramen. Erik Bruner-Yang and his team dish out only five kinds of ramen (not including new house specials), dumplings, and a few sides. Dessert consists of chocolate chip cookies with red miso. But the sake selection is definitely extensive. And worth the wait.