Trip to D.C. - help, please!

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Someone recommended eating crab cakes while on your visit. The best spots are hole-in-the-wall restaurants outside the city. I don't know what others like, but in D.C. and in the downtown area and easy to get to are Clyde's at Gallery Place (near Verizon Center and the H Street Boardinghouse) and Old Ebbitt Grill on 15th Street (a neighbor to the White House and Willard's). The latter is my favorite because of its Victorian bar - absolutely beautiful piece of woodwork and etched glass. Clyde's has a Victorian style too, but it's new.

The McCormick & Schmick's chain has a nice restaurant near Ford's Theatre in a 19th-century Masonic Lodge.

P.S. Bring money because no restaurant is cheap in D.C.