229 American restaurants in Washington that earn more on your cards

Washington has 229 American restaurants in our listings: 149 take a dining program and 106 have a card perk. Most common price: $$ (moderate). Top neighborhoods: Downtown (18), Capitol Hill (14), and Dupont Circle (10).

229 restaurants

  • American · $$ · Downtown

    American Express Gold Card

    Resy credit
  • Carlyle

    up to6%

    American · $$ · Shirlington

    American Express Gold Card

    Resy credit
  • American · $ · Alexandria

    American Express Gold Card

    Resy credit
  • American · $ · Vienna

    American Express Gold Card

    Resy credit
  • American · $ · Arlington

    American Express Gold Card

    Resy credit
  • American · $ · Arlington

    American Express Gold Card

    Resy credit
  • American · $ · Penn Quarter Washington D.C.

    American Express Gold Card

    Resy credit
  • American · $ · Capital City Market

    American Express Gold Card

    Resy credit
  • American · $$ · Vienna

    American Express Gold Card

    Resy credit
  • FireFly

    up to6%

    American · $ · Dupont Circle

    American Express Gold Card

    Resy credit
  • Harvey’s

    up to6%

    American · $ · Falls Church

    American Express Gold Card

    Resy credit
  • American · $$ · Southwest Waterfront

    American Express Gold Card

    Resy credit
  • Lobby Bar

    up to6%

    American · $ · Capitol Hill

    American Express Gold Card

    Resy credit
  • Lyle

    up to6%

    American · $$ · Dupont Circle

    American Express Gold Card

    Resy credit
  • American · $$ · Georgetown

    American Express Gold Card

    Resy credit
Restaurants
229
Neighborhoods
82
Cuisines
34
Dining programs
14
With a card perk
106

The 3 best cards to bring to dinner in Washington

Ranked by what each card earns across this city's restaurants at our point valuations, counting the dining program that pays most at each one. Card credits aren't counted. Bilt Dining (103 restaurants) and AAdvantage Dining (96) are the most widespread dining programs here, out of 229 restaurants. American Express Gold Card tops the list here on its own dining rate — ≈$6.00 on a $100 dinner before any program.

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14 dining programs that pay in Washington

Dining programs pay on top of your card. Join one, link a card, and every meal at a participating restaurant earns twice.

33 cuisines in Washington

American in 82 Washington neighborhoods

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Some restaurant addresses, phone numbers, websites and cuisines come from Overture Maps Foundation open data (Meta and Microsoft, CDLA Permissive 2.0; Foursquare, Apache 2.0; AllThePlaces, CC0 1.0). Overture attribution Some neighbourhoods come from Who's On First boundaries (CC-BY 4.0). Who's On First licenses Some opening hours, phone numbers, websites and cuisines are © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). OpenStreetMap copyright

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