Less than ten minutes' walk from Washington D.C.'s Dupont Circle Metro Station awaits a dining experience certain to delight seafood lovers.

Noticeable from the moment one descends the steps leading into Grillfish's shaded, sunken dining room is its residential feel, less like a business establishment than a rec room or den in the home of a trusted friend repaying guests for a bit of their company with a delicious meal.

In a time when many eateries seem to be in venomous competition with one another over whose furnishings assemble the sleekest and shiniest in unadorned TONY chic, Grillfish is a breath of fresh, herb-scented air...