Miramar Restaurant

Miramar at 1033 31st Street NW is on the 31st Street block that has become one of Georgetown’s more concentrated dining addresses, with Bar a Vin and Chez Billy Sud sharing the block and Il Canale and Flavio in the immediate vicinity. The 31st Street dining corridor serves Georgetown’s neighborhood dining community in the block between M Street and the canal, in a setting that has more residential character than the M Street commercial strip and more culinary variety than any single-block section of Georgetown’s restaurant landscape.

The restaurant at 1033 31st Street serves the block’s dining community with the neighborhood restaurant format that complements the French and Italian dining that the surrounding addresses provide. The international cuisine designation covers a range of preparations from the global culinary tradition that the Georgetown neighborhood’s diverse residential and professional community brings to its dining preferences.

Georgetown’s dining landscape has always reflected the international character of the city’s diplomatic community, which has created demand for culinary traditions from around the world in a relatively small commercial district. The 31st Street block, with its residential character and its proximity to the Georgetown diplomatic community’s residential neighborhood on the streets above, is an appropriate address for a restaurant that takes an international approach to its menu.

The 31st Street location at 1033 is accessible from M Street above and from the canal towpath below, which gives the restaurant access to both the Georgetown commercial foot traffic and the residential neighborhood population. The evening service that the 31st Street dining block generates is substantial enough that several restaurants on the block maintain consistent dinner business throughout the week.

Hours run Tuesday through Sunday from the evening service, with weekend lunch service. Georgetown’s 31st Street dining block has developed over the years into one of the neighborhood’s most satisfying restaurant concentrations precisely because the street’s residential scale limits the volume and the tourist-facing character that the M Street commercial corridor carries. The 31st Street restaurants serve a customer population that is more likely to be a Georgetown resident or a regular visitor who knows the neighborhood than the casual tourist navigating M Street. Miramar at 1033 31st Street serves the international dining appetite that Georgetown’s residential community brings to its restaurant visits. The neighborhood’s diplomatic and international professional population, which spans virtually every country with a Washington embassy and a substantial expatriate community in DC, has always maintained demand for the international culinary traditions that the diplomatic community represents. A restaurant that takes the international cuisine approach draws on this demand. The 31st Street block’s physical character, with its row houses and the canal-adjacent geography, creates a dining setting that has both the urban energy of the M Street proximity and the residential calm of the Georgetown neighborhood above the commercial streets. For the Georgetown customer who wants a dinner without the M Street energy, the 31st Street restaurants provide the alternative. Hours run Tuesday through Sunday.