Zaytinya - Washington, D.C.

Always amazing and worth repeated visits! With an extensive wine map and menu you will find something wonderful.

Zaytinya is a great restaurant. I was not since 2020 when they were only served outside (as I remember), so it was wonderful to eat inside again. The dishes we ordered were amazing and I can't expect to go back.

Would be happy to come back. Order the Brussels. You're not sorry. Would highly recommend.

Zaytinya has been my favorite DC restaurant. The food was, as always, wonderful, but this time I was disappointed in the service. After being seated and having drinks (we just had water) brought to the table, our waiter seemed to have forgotten about us. He spent ample time with the people in the booth right next to us without once noticing that we were ready to order (10 minutes after having been seated). He came back to the booth next to us several times without even noticing our booth. Finally after sitting there for 15 minutes, I motioned to one of the wait staff (several of whom were engaged in conversation around the cash register) to come to our table. When I told her we didn’t know what happened to our waiter, she laughed and said she didn’t know either! She took the order, incorrectly on one main item, which we had to then wait for after the rest of us had our main items. One dish (spread trio) was brought to the table but we had no naan to spread it on. We had to motion to another server to bring naan to the table. This is not typical Zaytinya service. I was very disappointed.

Expensive, tiny amounts not traditional Mediterranean and noisy