From the restaurant's website:
"1789 Restaurant is the quintessential Washington, D.C. dining experience. Chosen by readers of Gourmet magazine as one of America's Top Tables, its inspired creativity is delivered in a relaxed country-inn elegance. Decorated with American antiques, period equestrian and historical prints and Limoges china, its five dining rooms offer comfortable surroundings in a renovated Federal house."
Jackets suggested. Full bar. Serving dinner nightly.
Washingtonian: 100 Very Best Restaurants, 2011
"Perhaps the grande dame of Washington restaurants, 1789 plays host to many of DC’s and the nation’s power players — and it was a favorite of the late Julia Child."
— Gayot