BlackSalt Restaurant has been making regular appearances on Washington Magazine’s annual “100 Best Restaurants” list since shortly after opening in 2004. Diners can expect the freshest seafood from sustainable sources prepared with an array of global influences, like their Thai or Belgian blue shell mussels. Menu favorites include salmon tartare, butter-poached lobster, assorted caviar, and fried Ipswich clams.

BlackSalt is one of the few restaurants where diners can delight in their favorite dishes and visit the fish market on the way out to take home the ingredients. The best dining advice is always to eat where the locals eat, and in Palisades, it’s BlackSalt.

BlackSalt Restaurant, 4883 MacArthur Boulevard, Washington, DC, Phone: 202-342-9101