I need seafood recommendations, please! My last visit I ate a Pesci 3 times! I want to find another place like that; location, small, quaint, delicious and... DELICIOUS

Yum I love seafood!!! I want to know too since ill be there soon too!!!

Check out Old Ebbitt Grill. It's a DC original with a long history that serves up great seafood at a reasonable price.  My faves are the raw oysters and crab cakes.  Check out the reviews on yelp.

Black Salt, in Palisades in NW. http://www.blacksaltrestaurant.com/

The Oval Room has remarkably consistent menus, including great seafood.  Or, check out the soft shell crabs at Bistro LePic in Georgetown. Also, Al Tiramisu, an Italian place just outside of Dupont, has great fresh fish.  Can't miss at any of these places.

Seafood across from the MCI center is pretty good, too - forget the name

The oceanaire, Blacksalt and Hank's oyster bar. I also like Tony and joe's in Georgetown but the service is awful.

See this is perfect! Raw oysters are #1 on my list! Thanks!!

I promise to fit every suggestion in by next Tuesday! It won't be difficult

DC Coast at 14th & K, Johnny's Half Shell near Union Station, Occidental Grill & Seafood on Pennsylvania Ave. near the White House; Oceanaire is good & Black Salt is excellent but a bit far from downtown.  And there are 2 McCormick & Schmick's, one on 9th St. in Penn Quarter the other at about 16th & K and they are bery good, better than Legal Seafood IMHO.  If you've got mobility, go over to Annapolis & park near the City Dock area & just walk around & find something; do not miss the crab cakes!

First and foremost I worked in the DC area for over 20 years as a Sommelier and management. To be honest, the DC area restaurant scene is highly overrated. The sad thing is that most/if not every place mentioned above is corporate. I am not going to lecture anybody here about quality being sacrificed for profits and if you do get quality, you are going to get gauged wit the bill.  So all I will say is look outside the box.  

can find a REAL Venetian place try squids in black souse and polenta. This is a very traditional and unique dish to venecians. delicious! take the word of a real venetian courtesan

I'm definitely looking for a small, bistro style. Nothing corporate please
Something unique to the area. Like Pesce.  

Love cafe Milano my favorite Italian restaurant.

I will add,Timbuktu in Hanover has very good crabcakes.

some very good local honey holes.....lol

Try Hanks. (Hanksoysterbar.com).  Three locations, one near DuPont Circle. Eat outside or in.  Try the oyster sampler.  Lucky is the guy who sees you afterwards.  Enjoy!

TER is better than Urbanspoon when it comes to restaurant reviews.....haha.

If you want a real special experience Blacksalt is definitely what you're looking for.

I'm so glad to see this thread!  I was going to inquire about this and now I don't have to!!

Crisfield's in Silver Spring.  On Georgia Ave just beyond the District Line, easily walkable from the SS Metro Station.

Oh, I didn't know that. Never been to G&M. I went to Timbuktu last week yummy yummy crabcakes.

It's not a small bistro but I wouldn't call it "corporate". The chef is amazing and has a great touch with seafood. It's not inexpensive but don't fear you'll be served overpriced, inferior food. The dishes at Fiola really are amazing.

I may step in there myself while in town this week.

Not really... Dupont is your closest best bet