For Nicole’s birthday I took her to a restaurant called Oya. It’s an Asian/French fusion restaurant that I found on opentable.com in downtown DC. We decided to go down to DC for once to eat instead of going up to Baltimore since there was no good reason to go up to Baltimore and we’ve never gone to eat at a nice restaurant down in DC.
Getting to the restaurant was a bit of the zoo but we had my trust GPS navigation thing that nicole got me for our anniversary. I managed to over shoot the valet line for the restaurant but just kinda pulled over anyway and made the valet guy come to me. Valet parking is absolutely necessary for us if we’re going to drive into the city. Mostly because I don’t want to go through the hassle of trying to find a spot when I don’t know the area.
The decor was very modern and everything was all white from the table to the chairs and even the wall. They had this really cool fireplace which we got seated next to. The only downside with the atmosphere was that for some reason there was a draft on one side of the table. In fact one of the waiters commented to the couple next to us that the lady always takes the inside seat and by the time they leave they make their dates swap seats with them. Overall though the atmosphere was fantastic and nicole and I really liked the place.
For dinner we opted to go with their prefix menu and add some extra rolls and sushi to our order. The sushi options weren’t the traditional japanese choices but were modern/American rolls. Most of the appetizers on menu you could see they started with a Japanese dish and then gave it a french twist. For the entree’s it was the opposite where they took a french dish and added an asian twist to it. For the most part all the food we ordered was fantastic. Some of the things we got we probably wouldn’t order again but that wasn’t the fault of the chef we just didn’t care for the flavor.
Throughout the night the service at the place was fantastic further reminding us it pays to go to a nicer resturant. The meal ended up being one of the most expensive we’ve ever had but figured that was just a result of going down into DC. Still we really enjoyed ourseleves and hope to go back there again at some point.
