When you dine out, you might think about the ingredients that go into your food, but you probably don’t think about all the numbers that make your meal happen. Restaurants are filled with interesting figures that might not be apparent when you bite into an enticing entrée or take a sip of a signature cocktail, but they’re all around you.
This week we take a trip over to Dupont Circle’s Urbana. When the culinary and bar teams aren’t cooking and crafting cocktails, they’re growing tomatoes, making an astonishing amount of sausage, and watching old 007 films to get inspiration for Bond-worthy beverages.
Urbana
Seats in the restaurant: 166
Gluten-free menu items: 48
Eggs used per week: 3,600
Pizzas made per month: 1,135
Pounds of handmade pasta made in the past year: 4,000
Number of house-made cheeses and charcuterie: Six, including Manchego, halloumi, fromage blanc, foie dogs, duck prosciutto, and head cheese
Oysters sold every month: 1,750
Length of all the sausages made last year laid end to end: 167.4 feet
Chef John Critchley’s Lamb Jam wins: Three
Orders of lamb sold since this year’s Lamb Jam: 423
National hotness ranking of chef Critchley according to Eater: 2
Pots du crème sold this year: 1,340
Scoops of gelato made this year: 6,934
Cocktails inspired by James Bond: Two, the shaken, not stirred Vesper made with equal parts Lillet, gin and vodka, and the Negroni Spera, which was inspired by the Americano, a popular drink in James Bond’s heyday
Bottomless bellinis sold every month: 859
Different wines on the menu: 182
Glasses of wine sold at happy hours this year: 5,302
Corks recycled every year: 21,600
Different varieties of tomatoes being raised on the rooftop: 10, including cherry, grape, Zebra, and Brandywine

