At Jackie, you don’t kick off your shoes. You throw on a pair of stilettos and make like it’s your first night on the Vineyard.
Jackie is the pearl of a new restaurant in Navy Yard, a high-concept addition to the neighborhood’s dining scene. This rebranded, refreshed restaurant at gay-owned Dacha Beer Garden by Nationals Stadium features James Beard Award finalist Chef Jerome Grant, lately of Sweet Home Café (the restaurant at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture).
Back in 2019, owners Ilya Alter and Dmitri Chekaldin opened an interior restaurant across from their new Dacha beer garden, but kept the name Dacha for the restaurant. “That created a bit of a confusion,” Chekaldin said, “because “Dacha” is