Why it’s so hard to spend less than $100 for two at dinner in Washington

Let’s start with the fried chicken. There’s the spicy $26 Taiwanese rendition at Maketto and the $24 Japanese riff at Himitsu. You can go for the $18 version at Partisan, or the $19 one at Convivial. But tack on an appetizer and maybe a cocktail or dessert, and that one bird is steering you to a dinner check of $50 — easy. Perhaps no […]