Ozio

Happy Birthday to Wubba! Our own festivities were in the spirit of the theme in only the loosest sense that we had some drinks. After debating plans for a week we settled on meeting up with friends at Ozio, just south of Dupont Circle for Dinner and drinks.

This restaurant/club has free salsa lessons on Wednesdays so that was the backdrop of our evening. The music was along the same lines and would have provided good atmosphere if the place was not so empty. This is a fairly large venue, and even though it is intimately divided into sections across multiple levels, it still felt pretty empty.

They advertise themselves as Mediterranean but the menu was a pretty straightforward bar menu with a couple of Mediterranean accent plates half heartedly thrown in. We had a tapas platter of chicken fingers, teriyaki shrimp over a bed of feta, olives and peppers which I guess made it Mediterranean. The chicken fingers were admittedly good, but the shrimp was awful. I had a chicken sandwich which I suppose was unadventureous but I just could not put any faith in this salsa themed night club doing specialty dishes well so I chickened out. Hard to mess that up.

We watched some Salsa, Cha Cha, and Merengue dancing which was festive. I headed home after to watch the Magic beat the Spurs which for whatever reason felt more in the spirit of the day than the previous three hours.