"Eating at Lapis, like a 3am jumbo slice, is an Adams Morgan rite of passage. The Afghan restaurant is the ultimate breakfast hotspot thanks to their one-of-a-kind smoky and sweet rose-cardamom pancakes and killer '70s jazz and R&B playlist. For dinner, we recommend going family-style so you can sample as much of the menu as possible. Because why choose between the leek dumplings on a bed of saffron and garlic cream sauce and the tender lamb shank drenched in smoky tomato stew if you don’t have to?" - omnia saed, mekita rivas