Cosmo Cafe

A great place for breakfast or lunch, if you know where to find it. Located in an office building in front of the L'Enfant Plaza Metro, it's just a couple of blocks from the National Mall. There's no buffet now, but you can get freshly prepared breakfast or lunch at very reasonable prices. My friend really enjoyed her Capital Special turkey sandwich and drink and I loved my Bulgogi Burger Combo, including fries and drink, each under $13. The free Neighborhood Shuttle stops at the corner and will let you off in front of the Hirshhorn if you don't feel like walking to the Mall.

It's a combination of the Salad bar, sandwiches and sushi. The location - inside Capitol Gallery center at 600 Maryland Avenue. They claim be best sushi place in town - this is way above their paygrade. The salad bar is OK, nothing special but you may save here couple dollars compare to other options (Rice bar or Vie de France). Sandwiches are pretty solid choice, although this line closes before the official closing time. Basically salad bar and sandwiches is solid 4, sushi is more like 2,5.

We ate every breakfast here and one lunch and every meal was fantastic. The quality and variety of the buffet is really impressive. Their prices are amazingly low considering the quality of the food. Between our family we had mixture of eggs, omelets, pancakes, oatmeal, fried plantains, potatoes, and more for breakfast and all were delicious. At lunch the chicken and fish were terrific as well as the fresh salad bar.