A&J Restaurant
1319 Rockville Pike #C, Rockville; 4316 Markham St., Unit B, Annandale
Our favorite dim sum spot in the area serves up thousand-layer pancakes, excellent noodle soups, and dumplings galore starting at 11:30 every day.
Cafe Unido
908 W St., NW
Weekdays start bright and early (8 AM) at this Panamanian cafe in Shaw. Find breakfast sandwiches with guava mumbo sauce, avocado toast on sourdough, a skillet of eggs, salsa, and homemade queso fresco, and plenty of coffee drinks.
Cordelia Fishbar
550 Morse St., NE
This Union Market seafood destination will let you kick off the day with fried prawns and waffles, a buttery lobster roll, poached eggs with crabcakes, and plenty of tinned fish and raw oysters. Bottomless cocktails—such as mai tais, bloodies, mimosas, and coladas—ar