Inside Café Fausse

1. 2026

   • GuideThree Plates, sixth year runningThe Potomac Table Guide

     The guide's top rating, held every year since 2021: its inspectors return unannounced and pay their own bill.

     Recognitions from fictional guides, societies and polls are illustrative.

   • Wine listGrand Award for an Italian cellarCellar & Vine Society

     For a cellar of more than six hundred Italian labels, kept in depth from Piedmont and Tuscany to the south.

     Recognitions from fictional guides, societies and polls are illustrative.

2. 2025

   • ChefChef of the Year — Antonio RossiMid-Atlantic Culinary Guild

     The guild's members chose Antonio for his Sunday ragù and for training four of the city's young chefs.

     Recognitions from fictional guides, societies and polls are illustrative.

   • Best ofTop 25 Restaurants in WashingtonThe Capitol Table

     The magazine's yearly list of the city's restaurants, chosen by its critics after a year of anonymous visits.

     Recognitions from fictional guides, societies and polls are illustrative.

3. 2024

   • HospitalityOspitalità Award for serviceItalian Hospitality Circle of Washington

     Given by the circle for service in the Italian manner: warm, unhurried and precise.

     Recognitions from fictional guides, societies and polls are illustrative.

   • Wine listBest wine-by-the-glass listCellar & Vine Society

     Forty wines by the glass, every one opened and tasted by Maria before it reaches the list.

     Recognitions from fictional guides, societies and polls are illustrative.

4. 2023

   • HonourRestaurant of the Year
   • HonourBest Fine Dining ExperienceFoodie Magazine
   • ChefGold Medal, regional Italian cookingAtlantic Seaboard Culinary Awards

     For the Emilian dishes on the menu, judged blind against kitchens along the whole seaboard.

     Recognitions from fictional guides, societies and polls are illustrative.

5. 2022

   • HonourCulinary Excellence Award
   • HospitalityHost of the Year — Maria LopezHospitality Guild of the District

     For Maria's dining room: the guild cited her habit of remembering every regular's name, table and wine.

     Recognitions from fictional guides, societies and polls are illustrative.

   • Wine listSommeliers' Choice: Italian listCellar & Vine Society

     Voted by the region's working sommeliers as the Italian list they would most like to drink from.

     Recognitions from fictional guides, societies and polls are illustrative.

6. 2021

   • GuideThree PlatesThe Potomac Table Guide

     The year the house first reached the guide's top rating.

     Recognitions from fictional guides, societies and polls are illustrative.

   • Best ofBest Italian, readers' pollDistrict Eats Quarterly

     Chosen by the magazine's readers, in a poll of more than four thousand votes.

     Recognitions from fictional guides, societies and polls are illustrative.

7. 2020

   • ChefFresh Pasta of the YearMid-Atlantic Culinary Guild

     For the tortellini in brodo Antonio learned at nine and still folds by hand.

     Recognitions from fictional guides, societies and polls are illustrative.

   • Best ofNeighbourhood Table of the YearCapitol Dining Circle

     For being, in the circle's words, the dining room the neighbourhood is proud of.

     Recognitions from fictional guides, societies and polls are illustrative.

8. 2019

   • GuideTwo PlatesThe Potomac Table Guide

     The first time the guide rated the house: two plates, in its ninth year.

     Recognitions from fictional guides, societies and polls are illustrative.

   • Wine listAward of Merit for the wine listCellar & Vine Society

     The society's first recognition of the wine list, then barely two hundred labels.

     Recognitions from fictional guides, societies and polls are illustrative.

Recognitions from fictional guides, societies and polls are illustrative. Disclaimers