Dining & Drinking

March, 1981

If you have but one night in the nation's capital, Germaine's (2400 Wisconsin Avenue, Washington, D.C.) is the place to dine. This Pan-Asian restaurant is the creation of a Vietnamese former paratroop nurse and newsgirl named Germaine Loc and her husband, former Time-Life war photographer Dick Swanson. From the ashes of a broken society (Germaine's family was nearly executed in the French debacle of 1954 and made it out of Saigon on the last refugee flight in 1975), the Swansons have crafted an...