John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

This guide to the Roof Terrace Restaurant at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. is about how the kitchen times its menu to the rhythm of the curtain, plating crab cakes, tuna tartare and risotto so dinner never outlasts intermission. It also traces what lies below the glass floor: the six-hundred-thirty-foot Grand Foyer, built from imported Italian marble and Swedish chandeliers, that opened here in 1971. Look down through the window before your entree arrives.