| About: | B.Smith's Washington, DC Restaurant features a combination of Cajun, Creole and Southern cuisine. Located in Historic Union Station, B.Smith's grand Beaux Arts style dining room with its 30-foot ceilings, period chandeliers and turn of the century elegance, is recognized as a national landmark. The Grand Dining Room is known as one of the most beautiful dining rooms in America. Executive Chef Ronald Reid's specialties of the house include our famous Swamp Thing - a mixed seafood dish over southern style greens in a Dijon mustard based sauce; Grilled Lamb Chops with sweet potato puree; Fried Green Tomatoes and Spicy Cajun Jambalaya. In its own separate space, the bar at B. Smith's serves as a gathering place for Washington's political movers and shakers, celebrities and people who just want to have a good time. |
| Hours: | Lunch & Dinner daily, Brunch Sat.-Sun. |
| Categories: | Southern Restaurants, Soul Food Restaurants, Cajun Restaurants, Restaurants, American Restaurants |
| Parking: | Street Parking |
| Payment: | MasterCard, Visa, Discover, American Express, Diners Club |
| Amenities: | Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Beer, Weekend Brunch, Wheelchair Access, Wine |
| Chef: | Ronald Reid |
| Cuisine: | American, Cajun, Soul Food, Southern |
| Ambiance: | Elegant, Family Friendly |
| Feature: | Bar, Brunch, Entertainment, Happy Hour, Private Rooms, Take Out, View |
| Reservations Policy: | Suggested |
| Smoking: | Non-Smoking Restaurant |
| Dress Code: | Business Casual |
| Price: | $5.00 |
| Other Contact Info: | Fax: 202 289 6199 Email: ttownsend@bsmith.com |
Excellent! B has been serving up 'Food for the Soul' for years. It's one of the best, upscale, long-standing, soul-food restaurants in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area. B has maintained her heritage, exquisite style and finesse at the restaurant and I'd absolutely recommend dining here again and again.
To much MSG, to much salt in the greens, Sea bass over cooked on one side and poor table service all of this and very expensive makes for a terrible restuarant experience. This is not southern food like my mom cooked I do not think she had any MSG and she would have never served us greens that tasted like these. Save your money and time do not bother with this disappointing restuarant. Staff would reach over your plate to fill water of person across from you which I would think is a basic no no in the waiter business.
Won't waste my time: Ok I love the setting and the service. It's a very nice ambience of smooth sophisticated music and a sea of differnt shades of brown seated throughout the place. The food on another hand is horrible! I order the half breast roasted w/mashed potatoes and greens. The chicken was bland, and the greens were disgusting, I ended up eating all of my mashed potatoes and trying to pawn the rest of the food of on co-workers when I got back to the office. The strawberry shortcake was the ONLY thing that will convince me to return