Old Angler's Inn Gets New, Favorable Review

If you'd crossed off the Old Angler's Inn on your list of favorite local restaurants, you might want to rethink the place.

Earlier this week, Tom Sietsema—dining critic for The Washington Post—published a favorable review of the restaurant, which has been revamped in recent years.

Mark Reges, whose family has owned the property since 1957, said that it took his mother's passing in 2005 to make some changes.

"Five years ago, he, wife Sara and brother Greg reopened the back garden. Next, they tackled the interior, starting with the ground floor. Out went those sad sofas, and in went a marble-topped bar purchased from the late Watergate Hotel," Sietsema reported.

Then, in 2011, they got a new chef—31-year-old Nick Palermo, who has worked at CityZen, Sietsema added. The menu is now almost completely changed:

Cross the Prime Rib downtown with 1789 in Georgetown, and you get a sense of what to expect at the made-over Old Angler’s Inn: a classic restaurant where no one has to shout to be heard and where “Days of Wine and Roses” is apt to serenade you as you spoon into a vichyssoise or slurp oysters on the half-shell.

Read Sietsema's full review on The Post's website.