My mom turned 83 yesterday and to celebrate, we went alllll the way downtown to Dupont Circle to the Pembroke restaurant. This is a restaurant on the first floor of a hotel, and I had forgotten, but Jeremy had a work Christmas party at the hotel years ago which was a lot of fun and quite fancy. As we don’t often go downtown for anything anymore, it was quite an adventure (the city is starting to be dressed up for Christmas) and the restaurant was lively and fun – the food good and the service lovely. We had an early reservation – just like we like it, and it was very quiet when we were first seated, but by the time we left, the restaurant was humming, not a full capacity, but enough hubbub to feel festive. I’m always a little nervous that the food/atmosphere would not be worth the drive, but the Pembroke delivered.
My lovely mom enjoying the bone marrow appetizer:
The little fried donut birthday dessert, which was puffy, light, not too sweet and so yummy.
