Boundary Stone

116 Rhode Island Ave NW
http://boundarystonedc.com/

Just down the street from Rustik Tavern, this is another yuppie new addition to the Bloomingdale neighborhood of DC
I ate at the bar, not the upstairs restaurant. The bar was long, dark, and had the effortfully retro/old decor/style that is popular in DC. I went here to watch baseball playoffs with friends, but also for the bacon jam burger that they and people in the neighborhood had raved about. It's $10, a solid sized burger, bacon jam, and aged cheddar plus fries. The fries were good. The burger was good, but nothing remarkable, thus falling short of the hype. I also got fried pickles for $3 and they were quite well done - evenly and lightly battered at a great temperature. I remember the beer selection having a few good options, although not extensive. I'd say not a place to go for the beer menu, but it doesn't disappoint. I also tried a piece of my friends' quesadilla - Slow braised pork, sauteed onions, poblano peppers ($9), which was pretty good as well.

Bottom line: I'd say that it is an enjoyable place to eat with good food, but not a stand-out, special destination place. On the other hand, it's not far from my place.

Dogfishhead Ale House

6220 Leesburg Pike
Seven Corners Shopping Center

I haven't been here in a while, but I just remembered that I have been.

I should probably subsume this into a general overview of beer, pizza, and American food places, but I won't.

Anyway, the decor is very nice and the servers always attentive and helpful.  A lot of indoor brick give it a good rustic feel.  Of course, it is one of those places on the edges of a shopping center's parking lot which I tend to avoid, but there actually aren't that many of them, so they're not another Applebee's / Chi-chi's kind of chain.

The beer is quite good.  The selections are all Dogfishhead, so you have to like their stuff, but I think that brewery makes good stuff.

The food is high quality bar food.  The BBQ chicken pizza and the burgers have both been quite good when I've been there.

NPR Best Burger list

1st - Ray's Butcher Burgers ("Hellburgers") (Arlington) - uses steakhouse trims
2nd (tie) - Good Stuff Eatery (Capitol Hill) - uses short rib meat
2nd (tie) - BGR (Bethesda) - uses steak quality meat
 -- a dropoff then...--
4th - Big Buns (Arlington)
5th - Urban Burger (Rockville)
6th - Elevation Burger
7th - Five Guys
8th - CBurgers (SeaBurgers?) (Tenleytown)

Notes:

Good Stuff - burgers good, but not amazing.  Shakes very good, especially Toasted Marshmallow & Milky Way

Big Buns - make your own burger to order with a lot of potential ingredients - pretty dang good although I overdid it.  Shakes also quite good.  Peanut butter cup one (or whatever) pretty good.

Five Guys - no comment needed