14K Restaurant
1001 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
202-218-7575
14K website
14K Restaurant is located on the Northwestern corner of Franklin Park in Washington, DC – just a block North of the McPherson Square metro at 14th and K st., perfectly situated between where I works and how I gets home. So it should be no surprise that my first and only (so far) visit was for a happy hour… thus making it difficult to give a full review, but enough to describe the highlights of a “quickie”.
The girls in our group made it to the bar first and ordered Coconut Mohitos, so being a fan of the old school Mohito myself I decided to try the new fangled version… it was delish. 14K makes them a bit weak and they’re served in your typical short-stack 8 ball glass, so for $9 I wouldn’t call it a bargain, but it’s definitely refreshing on a hot day. As happens with most Mohitos I end up choking on the mint at the bottom of the glass – the higher class the Mohito the finer the mint – and this one was pretty fine if-you-know-what-im-sayin.
Some people ordered the Calamari (one of my favorites which I should have tried but didn’t), and others (like me) went for the mini-burgers. The mini-burgers actually looked pretty silly, served with green olives and cherry tomatoes pierced by the skewer-sword on top – the green olive was almost as big as the burger itself (el-o-el). The buns were wheat and slightly toasted with a flavorful, hint of garlic, patty. One of my coworkers pointed out the 3 gallons of mustard sauce it was served with, which was definitely overkill, but very tasty. I ended up swiping the burger tops in the sweet mustard sauce and only used maybe a spoonful.
I’ll definitely be back (not too far after a payday) to try out an actual meal – but I can say for now, 14K is an excellent place for a slightly higher class happy hour.
