2019 Fall Dining Guide
Rasika included in Tom Sietsema’s 2019 Fall Dining Guide in The Washington Post. “I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: No journey fascinates me more than India. In a nutshell, that explains my unabashed affection for the cooking at the crosstown siblings from veteran restaurateur Ashok Bajaj.”
Where ambassadors eat
Rasika reminds Ireland Ambassador, Daniel Mulhall of meeting his wife. ““I met my wife, who is Australian, when we both lived in India. So to remember our courtship and those early days of marriage, we go to Rasika. I’ll order a chicken dish, prawn for her; we enjoy the cucumber raita and fall in love again.”
2019 JAMES BEARD NOMINEE
Chef Vikram Sunderam was already crowned once by the James Beard Awards—for Best Chef Mid-Atlantic—and it’s no wonder why: the celebrated chef has turned Indian fine dining into a D.C. staple, where the vibrancy and depth of his homeland’s cuisine resonates in every dish, even one as simple as naan.
James Beard Foundation – Best Chef
The original in Penn Quarter got the ball rolling, but the offshoot in the West End expanded on the modern Indian theme with a whimsical design that finds patrons eating avocado-banana chaat and ginger-sharpened minced lamb kebabs under the sprawl of a faux tree or inside a carriage-shaped booth.