This lovely dining room overlooking the White House and Lafayette Park is one of the most impressive settings for brunch in the city. The cold buffet offers salads, smoked salmon, cocktail shrimp, prosciutto, cheese, and a fruit tray. Save room for dessert. The cream puffs shaped like swans, the flan, and the lemon boats are worth the calories. This is no place for clock-watchers.
Service is unhurried at best.
Servers circulating with fresh, hot coffee would be a welcome innovation. 2001 by Washington Magazine Inc.