Best Restaurants with a Wood Oven in Chevy Chase

Went for "Happy Hour". Reasonably priced good house cabernet and rail margarita. Numerous salad, small plate, and large plate options. Very good food and excellent service.

Divino has been open for about two months. The menu is not extensive, but it is well thought through, inventive, upscale Italian, and has sufficient variety. The meal was carefully prepared and presented. The sunchoke soup and porcini ravioli were delicious and the whole branzino was superlative. The server was attentive and engaging. The restaurant has lots of hard surfaces. We were there on an evening over the holidays that was slower and had no trouble hearing but if the restaurant is full, it could get noisy. Altogether a very pleasant evening.

We have been going to Ella's since it opened several years ago. The food is always well prepared, delicious and served quickly by very lovely servers. We especially like the beet and orange salad and the Di Mare pizza which is made with pesto and shrimp. It's also conveniently located across the street from the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery/American Art Museum. We love Ella's!

I would've preferred not to have the live music. It impeded conversation.

The food was very good, and reasonably priced. The server was nice but she was very overwhelmed and we waited a really long time for our food, a longer time for our check, and it made for a really really long night. They’re short staffed. We will return on a weeknight to see if it’s better.