Which Top 10 Restaurant Has the Best Beer Program?

If you missed it, Washington Post Food Critic Tom Sietsema recently released his list of top 10 best restaurants in the DC area.

Taking a note from Sietsema we further analyzed his list to re-order these restaurants with regard to their beer programs. Which of these fine dining spots has a similarly fine beer list…or not.

Sietsema’s original list:

1. Inn at Little Washington
2. Pineapple and Pearls
3. Himitsu
4. Minibar
5. Metier
6. Bad Saint
7. Tiger Fork
8. ChiKo
9. The Salt Line
10. Sfoglina

DCBeer’s re-ordered list based on the 10 restaurants’ beer programs:

1. The Salt Line
2. Metier
3. Pineapple & Pearls
4. Bad Saint
5. Tiger Fork
6. Himitsu
7. ChiKo
8. Sfoglina
9. Minibar
10. The Inn at Little Washington

Without further ado, our rationale:

The Salt Line

The Salt Line won for best beer program out of Sietsema’s top 10 because they specialize in New England fare, and they have beer from New England classics (‘Gansett, Geary’s, and Cisco, among others). They also have SOOOOPER JOOOOOCE like Other Half’s Raining Threes (collab with The Answe