Brasserie Liberté Washington DC

French in Georgetown

Lydia from Washington DC

""Brasserie Liberté" in Washington DC has great food, not just beautiful people! Try and score the egg-shaped back booth..."

Georgetown has no shortage of bistros, but Brasserie Liberté is one of the most chic. In typical French style, both place and menu are equally lovely: look beyond the beautiful people in the sceney, well-stocked bar to the glowingly lit dining room and the food doesn't disappoint.

The menu has all the requisite fare: steak and moules frites, French onion soup, tuna Nicoise, salad Lyonnaise. There are some welcome diversions, but not off theme: a trio of savory tarts, a dense boudin, duck confit. But it was the chef's treatment of vegetables we particularly appreciated: Brussels sprouts roasted to a dark caramel, fennel braised to sweetness, garlic roasted mushrooms glazed in cognac.

The wine list, likewise, is not so dense as to be complicated but with plenty of breadth, with a section of French wines featuring regions not on every other list in town.

For a special occasion -- or no reason at all -- try and score the egg-shaped back booth, the focal point of the gracious, navy-paneled back dining room. Otherwise, the tables are close and the noise level gets buzzier as the night goes on, like any successful local favorite. Brasserie Liberté has earned its spot.

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Washington DC Spotter Lydia

About me: The tale is in the telling. I am a storyteller, an excavator, a messenger, and for many years a journalist, with a portofolio that includes words crafted for magazines, books, online, television, newspapers, corporations and podcasts. I think everyone has a story, and everything. The person who made your coffee this morning (especially if that was you), and who picked the beans, the pedigree of the beans themselves, not to mention the arduous process of crop to cup. I do, however, prefer “inquisitive” to “nosy". An expat kid raised in the UK & Greece, I've also lived in Vie...

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3251 Prospect St NW

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Oct 5, 2025

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