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Available through your distributor or at riedelop.com. YOU KNOW HOW TO DINE THEM. Degustazione Red Wine Glass Height: 8-7/8" Capacity: 19-3/4 oz. Here's how to wine them. Starting at $3 per glass. Edgy D.C. restaurateurs apparently like the idea of opening in unusual locations. The newly spawned Iron Gate sits in a former stable with a history that goes back to the Civil War. It's the creation of locally raised chef Anthony Chittum, who's found acclaim at his restaurant Vermilion in Alexandria, Virginia. In the case of Iron Gate, his highly eclectic menu is American, Italian and Greek, thanks to his Greek-born wife, and her family's home on the island of Syros. This is new food in a space that claims to be the former home to D.C.'s oldest continuously operated restaurant, run for nearly a century by the General Federation of Women's Clubs. The menu changes with the seasons, running to dishes like caramelized ricotta gnocchi with trumpet mushrooms, a chicken "avgolemono" with orzo and lemon emulsion, and garlic-crusted rockfish with "dippy egg." The wine list is global, with a large section dedicated to the wines of Greece, including many bottles from Thrace—"Greece's Forgotten Corner." Those who flock to D.C.'s born-again Union Market, which dates back to 1931 (and a hundred years earlier in its various incarnations) are drawn to the Red Apron Butchery, where they don't just serve mixed drinks—they offer the house Gin & Tonic on tap, made with Green Hat Gin and housemade sage and green apple tonic; truly, this is a city that loves to drink. And it goes well, more or less, with their porkstrami sandwich, their pork meatball and grana padano cheese on a housemade baguette and their pork cotechino burger on homemade brioche. There are plates of charcuterie, made at the Butchery as well. You may well forget why you came to the Market in the first place. Or that a bill is up for a vote. PHOTO COURTESY OF BLUEJACKET OTO COURTESY OF IRON GATE PHOTO COURTESY OF IRON GATE Chef Anthony Chittum of Iron Gate. Octopus at Iron Gate. PHOTO: GREG POWERS Charcuterie at Red Apron.