Asia Nora

This restaurant is a romantic favorite in DC, and its Asian artifacts create one of the loveliest dining rooms around. Exquisite carvings, Chinese screens and Japanese helmets are displayed along bold green and gold walls. The gourmet cuisine stretches the boundaries of Asian cooking, with sea bass grilled in a banana leaf, Chinese dumplings in ginger, and smoked trout with Fuji apples. For dessert, the mango and banana spring rolls are a brilliant idea well executed. Perfect service from waiters clad in black satin pajamas. Reservations recommended; business casual dress. METRO: Foggy Bottom or Dupont Circle