RT’s Restaurant, web site, 3804 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria, VA, 703-684-6010 (across the street from Birchmere) Metro Trip Planner – opens in new window) [Washingtonian | Falls Church News-Press | 10Best | WaPo | City Paper | food-plan | Don Rockwell | openlist]
Good Cajun food. Messy and relatively authentic, not as cheap as you might think. I like the peppered shrimp here.
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