Sit in the dining room to the right of the entrance, the one with the pumpkin-hued banquettes and blue trim, and you can almost imagine yourself in Paris. A ravishing blow-up of a photograph of Notre-Dame gives you the sense you’re viewing the medieval cathedral through a window — a feeling that’s only enhanced by a bottle of chateauneuf-du-pape.
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Longstanding D.C. restaurateur Ashok Bajaj (Rasika, Bindaas, Sababa) introduced this modern French replacement to the Oval Room with a fresh backdrop of pop art, mirrored tiles, and a bigger bar where customers can sample a strong wine list.
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Ashok Bajaj, founder, and CEO of award-winning Knightsbridge Restaurant Group is pleased to announce the opening of La Bise, a modern, bright, and colorful 21st century French restaurant. La Bise will open in mid-June 2021 in the former Oval Room location, at 800 Connecticut Avenue, NW, just steps from the White House.
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Restaurateur Ashok Bajaj is hoping to lure diners back downtown with La Bise. The French restaurant replaces The Oval Room, which had a 26-year run across from the White House on Connecticut Avenue NW. When it opens on Friday, June 18, Executive Chef Tyler Stout will helm a new open kitchen visible from the extended bar area.
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A menu makeover woos Francophiles with classics like French onion soup, steak tartare, a niçoise salad, and oysters from Tyler Stout, who’s relocating from Boston where he was executive chef at Troquet on South. His resume also includes local cooking stints at Barrel and Crow and Macon Bistro & Larder.
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