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To get inspiration for The Wharf's design, Hoffman — who co-developed the Wharf with Madison Marquette — said he and his team traveled throughout the world.

This year, like last year, we split up the coverage into two sections. One features our staff picks — the places and activities we love the most at the moment. The other is full of your picks — dozens of places to go and things to do as voted on by you, our readers.

The splashiest restaurant yet to grace the Wharf — Del Mar by Fabio Trabocchi — prompts two visceral responses from customers.

On October 5th, Draken Harald Hårfagre, the world’s largest operating Viking ship, docked at the Wharf's Transit Pier for a 10-day stopover.

From the smartly revitalized Wharf and Navy Yards—where the city’s long-dormant sports scene has been reawakened—to neighborhoods like U Street and Adams Morgan, luring fans to spots like Maydan, which blends Middle Eastern and North African flavors, and to the recent, avant-garde hotel newcomers, it’s the people away from the seat of the Capitol shaping the city today.

The Wharf will include hotels, restaurants, performance spaces, boat slips, a fish market and solar and natural gas power.

If someone turns to Google Maps' transit feature for directional assistance as of this month, it might present the D.C.-area water taxis as an option for getting from point A to point B, as long as the Potomac River lies between those two points.

One place that’s become somewhat of a new go-to hangout spot for us (on non-rainy days, anyway): The District Wharf.