The brainchild of longtime friends Eli Hengst and Jared Rager, Sonoma is a restaurant and wine bar on Pennsylvania Avenue. It aims to showcase contemporary culinary creations made with local ingredients and naturally-raised mid-Atlantic produce and pair them with the best American and Italian wines. Not just good food but sustainable practices drive them. Relax in elegantly subdued interiors while the friendly staff attends to you.

Lunch or dinner at Sonoma could include homemade chicken liver mousse, grilled sardines with onions and tomatoes, meatballs with creamy polenta, roasted rainbow trout with pork braised cabbage, roasted Mennonite chicken and mushroom burger. The pasta and pizza selection offers braised beef ravioli, tomato and clam risotto, spaghetti with cuttlefish stew and pizzas with toppings of fonduta, onion, nutmeg, chives, pesto, goat cheese and grilled red onion. If tempted to try dessert go for chocolate dipped olive oil cake, tarragon pannacotta, brown butter cake or housemade ice cream. Refresh yourself with a glass of sparkling, white or red wine.