Gourmet Too

Best alternative to chain fast food inside L'Enfant. A typical breakfast & lunch grill, plus espresso bar, plus sushi bar, plus pay-by-weight hot & cold buffet. Staff are nice, efficient, ambitious, and above par for hygiene. 3 star difficulty, 4 star execution. But it's 4 business in 1. They've been better than most about pandemic safety. Well masked, and always asked customers to do so also. Looks like they've closed their dining area (?). Paused self service beverage (looks like they're bringing back limited buffet). For a while, they did the cooking in the back kitchen, but they're back on the line out front again. Offices are still largely on telework and tourism is down. Otherwise, it would crowd easily. L'Enfant mall does not have good air flow, so it might feel a little close in the best of times.

I often stop at their mall location, to pick up sushi to go for my wife. Their hallway mall location (along the corridor) is where I stop at. They're quick to make what I order, and they have a nice selection of drinks to go along with whatever you've ordered. As far as I know, they're the only sushi establishment in the L'Enfant Plaza area. The actual inside restaurant itself I haven't eaten at, so I can't speak of that with any personal knowledge.