Daily Provisions - Dupont Circle — Restaurant in Washington

Editing my troll review now that open and have tried. It’s fine. Crullers are good but can’t run a business on crullers in DuPont. It’s classic of this iteration of USHG: three managers sitting at the bar on their laptops, at least two of them probably big wigs from New York, abruptly turning their disapproving heads when someone drops an empty tray on accident but then back to the laptop. Meanwhile, you order four pastries and their fancy printer system enumerates each of them on your receipt which is stapled to your bag, and you open your bag to only find three of them. Which is to say: it’d be less pretentious to be sitting there on your laptops if you’d developed a system already to be confident that everyone was putting everything in the bag. Or maybe just one of the three could have been on expo at the time. The chicken has never been that good but it’s just as good here as in NY. It’s got a poor flow considering the majority of clientele will want to grab and go, dining room too big, nobody will be drinking alcohol here. But it’ll do fine on Sundays after the market. A big brilliant lease and an underwhelming build out to do well one day a week, the bleeding edge of the restaurant game has come to...

Food is soooo bad here 😭. Ordered the kale Caesar and had to get Milanese chicken because otherwise it comes with pulled chicken….weird. The salad comes dry with a tiny thing of dressing on the side…not enough for kale since it is so dry and tough. The salad had celery and dried chickpeas…neither of which you expect to come in a Caesar salad. The dressing was horrible…not a typical creamy Caesar at all and the chicken was dry unseasoned and rubbery. I legit tried one bite of salad and then gave it to my friend because I could not eat it. She also didn’t like it. Wasted almost $20 on it, so it being a cafe is not an excuse when it costs as much as salads at sit down restaurants. I then ordered the tuna melt because I was hungry and had not eaten all day. It was edible but not good by any means. Weird cheese for a tuna melt and kept getting a taste of something weird…tasted like licorice. I tried it one more time because I needed something quick to eat before a workout class…instant regret and didn’t finish it.

I may get a coffee here but absolutely wouldn’t get food here again. Still sad I wasted money on something I...

It feels like a coffee shop designed by a NPC. It's sterile, loud music, and is the least Dupont-y place I've been too. At least they had clean bathrooms.

It was such an odd experience being there. I came in a little past 1, to grab lunch, read and do some work on my laptop.

The place was filled with people working on their laptops, but no one seemed to be eating or drinking. The tea I ordered was fine, but I can get a much better tea for less money across the street at Teaism. My sandwich was good, but after a few bites I put it down to read somemore a worked just stood across the table for me and asked if I needed a box. Not even five min later another worker (I assume because he wasn't in a uniform or had any identifying item) asked if I was done and needed help clearing my table. It felt like I wasn't actually allowed to...