Restaurants serving local organic produce

Agraria Restaurant 3000 K Street, NW - Washington, DC  (Harbour/Lower Georgetown) Agraria Restaurant is owned by and sources the highest quality products from family-farmers across the country. Enjoy our modern American cuisine derived from the families whose passion for farming not only provides the wholesome ingredients presented on our menu, but also embodies the very fabric of the American way of life. Coppi's Organic 1414 U Street, N.W.; Washington, D.C. Coppi’s Organic, run by chef Elizabeth Bright and her husband, Pierre Mattia, was known for years mostly as a pizza parlor, and Coppi’s still makes one of the best authentic Neapolitan-style pizzas in town.  A shift to in-season, locally grown organic produce has brought more attention to Coppi’s daily-changing selection of antipasti, pastas, meat and fish dishes, and desserts, which are Northern Italian in inspiration.  A June 2007 dinner menu featured vegetable antipasto of asparagus, fava beans, and English peas, sautéed in house-made basil-pesto sauce – delicate, delicious and startlingly fresh tasting.  Ravioli were filled with a mixture of borage, nettles, and ricotta, and sauced with a fresh asparagus pesto.  A sensational pasta dish combined trenette with organic New York strip steak, tomato, porcini mushrooms, and pine nuts.   Full orders of these main courses are not cheap.  What makes Coppi’s a bargain is that they may be ordered as half-portions for around $12 or $13.  Combine one of these small plates with a salad or appetizer, and you’ll come in well under $50 for two. Cafe St. Ex 1847 Fourteenth Street, N.W.; Washington, D.C. Cashion's Eat Place 1819 Columbia Road, N.W.; Washington, D.C. (Adams Morgan) Opened in 1995, and chosen by Bon Apetit as one of the "top 10 neighborhood restaurants in the U.S.," Cashion's Eat Place is a small Adam's Morgan restaurant that, says Washington food critic Phillis Richman, "packages some of the best of the 20th Century's advances in dining." (Washington, DC) Equinox 818 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.; Washington, D.C. Nora's Restaurant 2132 Florida Avenue, N.W.; Washington, D.C. (Certified organic restaurant.) Asia Nora's 2213 M Street, N.W.; Washington, D.C. L'Auberge Chez Francois 332 Springvale Road; Great Falls, VA  22066 Jaleo's 480 Seventh Street, N.W.; Washington, D.C. Mendocino 2917 M Street, N.W.; Washington, D.C. Sonoma Restaurant 223 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E.; Washington, D.C. (Capitol Hill) Palena Restaurant 3529 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.; Washington, D.C. (Cleveland Park - next to metro)