When you google "Naan and Beyond," an "indian" takeout place on L NW between 17th and 18th, you'll see this place compared to the soup nazi counter on Seinfeld, and see adjectives like "great," "truly delicious," and "FRESH, CHEAP, ENTERTAINING!" in one blog post.  

Either these people have never had good indian food before, or the lunch options in Farragut North are so chain-y and meagre that Naan and Beyond stands out as at least vaguely ethnic and therefore "good" or "great." Or, they're so excited to bring a foil wrapped "Sheesh" or "Tikka" back to the office for bragging rights that they overlook the gummy naan bread, soggy vegetables and sour sauce that made up my Veggie Tikka sandwich.  

I would blame it on my own restrictive dietary choices that I hated Naan and Beyond, but the tears welling up in my meat-eating friends' eyes confirmed my disappointment.  I am an adventurous vegetarian - and don't need a restaurant to look nice (or even clean) to enjoy the food.  Naan and Beyond is basically a dumpy lunch counter with appropriately passive service (not nearly as surly as the bloggers led me to believe - unfortunately) - and if the food were good, I would sing its praises for having cheap vegetarian food that was even half-bad.  This was all bad, and I picked through the two pieces of watery eggplant and three pieces of zucchini on my Tikka before throwing the rest away.  

On the other hand, this would be great for you if you have never had indian food or are used to grabbing lunch at, say, Burger King.  It'd be real culinary and cultural adventure.

It's sad that in order to enjoy lunch in some areas of this city, you have to cook it yourself the night before and eat at your desk...ever since Teaism retired their lentil soup for the summer, the word is still out on delicious vegetarian lunch food in the Dupont/Far. North area.