And the critics

And the critics

say ‘Bravo!’

“Once in a while there comes along a restaurant so good that you worry,” wrote John Rosson, the first of the food critics to discover the new restaurant in Washington, Virginia.

And in the intervening 10 years, the praise has grown more fulsome.

“Don’t be surprised to find there is total perfection in every aspect of this magnificent obsession called The Inn at Little Washington . . . The best combination of comfort and food in a country-house setting in the United States.” — Edward Carter, Letters from Abroad, A Connoisseur’s Monthly Chronicle of the Underrated Treasures & Overrated Pleasures.

“Here it is, folks, the most beautiful inn in Virginia — and the best restaurant, too... This is an innovative American restaurant with roots deeply entrenched in the French countryside. But who cares. It’s enough that the food is superb.” — Tim Mulligan, Virginia, A History & Guide. • “It just so happens that my favorite holiday in the world involves Virginia. Every year I go with a friend . . . We take the car and we drive to Little Washington and spend two or three days at the most magnificent inn I’ve ever seen in this country or Europe. There I’ve had the most fantastic meal in my life. I was raised on soul food. I grew up in a.boarding house in Mississippi. I love black-eyed peas, the whole works, but I never dreamed I would be eating black-eyed peas with foie gras. But that’s what O’Connell did. He put black-eyed peas with thin slices of Smithfield ham on thin slices of toasted wheat bread and sauteed foie gras on top with a vinaigrette dressing. It was one of the b$st things I ever put in my mouth.” — Craig Claiborne, food critic emeritus for The New York Times.

“I’m not going to try to do the kitchen justice in the manner of esteemed food writers . . . Let’s just

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