
Based entirely on crowdsourcing and Twitter polling, the best BLTs in DC:
GOLD TIER
- Neopol Savory Smokery (Union Market)
- Salmon BLT
- $12.50
- Berkshire bacon, flaked smoked salmon, mixed greens, tomato, and aioli
- Also have an $10 avocado BLT
- Your Only Friend (Shaw)
- YOF BLT (seasonal)
- $18
- bacon, seasoned heirloom tomatoes, shredded lettuce, watermelon mayo, southern mustard, mayo, torched white bread
SILVER TIER
- Stachowski’s Market (Georgetown)
- BLT (seasonal?)
- $9
- bacon, iceberg lettuce, tomato, mayo on wheat
- Each Peach Market (Mt Pleasant)
- The Summer BLT (seasonal)
- $12
- applewood smoked bacon, homemade basil mayo, beefsteak tomato on toasted brioche
- Duke’s Grocery (Dupont, Foggy Bottom, Cleveland Park)
- Posh B.L.T.A.
- $15
- applewood smoked bacon, tomato, avocado, cucumber, garlic aioli, arugula, on ciabatta
- Hill East Burger (Capitol Hill)
- H.E. B-L-T (seasonal)
- $15
- big slab of Better Boy tomato from Linda Vista Farm in Montross, VA, beefonaise, bacon, arugula, tomato vinaigrette on a toasted Pullman loaf
- La Betty (Mt Vernon Square)
- BLT
- $14
- thick applewood smoked bacon, Boston bibb lettuce, tomato, mayo on homemade pain di mie (French white bread)
BRONZE TIER
- GW Deli (Foggy Bottom)
- BLT
- $8
- Bacon, tomato, lettuce on choice of bread
- Red Apron at The Roost (Capitol Hill)
- Heirloom Tomato B.L.T. (Seasonal)
- $18 (includes beef fat fries)
- North Country double smoked bacon, heirloom tomatoes, iceberg lettue, mayo, on Texas Toast
- Elle (Mt Pleasant)
- BLT (seasonal)
- $20
- nice tomato, neuske’s bacon, lettuce, kewpie mayo, brioche
Others worth mentioning: Murray and Paul’s Any Day Now, Nido, Easy TIger Tavern, Clyde’s/Old Ebbitt Grill, Tony’s Place, Wagshal’s

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