19 Basic DC-area Spots to Attempt Throughout Restaurant Week

Restaurant Affiliation Metropolitan Washington’s Winter Restaurant Week—working from Monday, January 27 to Sunday, February 2—is an efficient alternative to take a look at a brand new restaurant. Nevertheless it’s additionally an opportunity to reacquaint your self with a DC traditional. Right here’s the place to search out $25 to $35 lunch and brunch menus, and $40 to $65 dinner menus, with a facet of native historical past.

1226 thirty sixth St., NW

Georgetown’s elegant 1789 goes for traditional American flavors on its $65 three-course dinner menu. Selections embrace Maine lobster bisque with cognac; Berkshire pork chops with a cider/mustard glaze; filet mignon au poivre; and pineapple-cardamom bananas Foster.

2941 Fairview Park Dr., Falls Church

Bertrand Chemel’s hovering 23-year-old French eating room in Falls Church is providing a $65 three-course dinner, with a pleasant quantity of alternative. Starters embrace goat cheese mousse with toasted pecans; crab salad with avocado and watermelon radish; mushroom veloute; and extra. Transfer onto bouillabaisse, a ribeye with Cabernet sauce, butternut-squash raviolini, or Berkshire pork two methods. For dessert, there’s cranberry/vanilla cheesecake, a Thai-tea pavlova, and a chocolate/pistachio bar.

514 Eighth St., SE

The neighborhood-y Belga Café has been serving Belgian delicacies on the Hill for 21 years. Go to for $25 brunch, $35 lunch, and $55 dinner prix-fixe menus. At evening, there are hearty dishes like steak tartare, coq au vin, and smoked pork chops with apples and dates, and diners can swap out any course for a beer, glass of wine, or cocktail. Brunch contains an entree, dessert, and selection of espresso, passionfruit lemonade, or Bloody Mary.

1736 Wisconsin Ave., NW

This Georgetown bistro with 30 years of historical past is serving a comparatively inexpensive ($40) three-course menu of easy French meals. Assume pig’s toes with onion/mustard sauce; escargots; veal kidneys in dijon sauce; and stuffed Guinea hen.

900 nineteenth St., NW

Equinox, the 26-year-old American restaurant headed by Todd Grey and Ellen Kassoff, provide a pair methods to do Restaurant Week dinner: a $40 three-course menu ($65 with wine pairings) or a $55 four-course menu ($85 with wine pairings). The lineup options dishes like Maryland rockfish with curried butternut squash, squid-ink tagliatelle, and Hawaiian coconut cake, and there are a number of plant-based and gluten-free choices.

2000 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria

Twenty eight years in the past, the Neighborhood Restaurant Group opened its very first restaurant: this Southern-inspired spot in Del Ray. Its $40 dinner menu options starters like smoked pimento cheese and pickled fried inexperienced tomatoes; mains like roast hen with collards and spaghetti and meatballs; and buttercream-frosted carrot cake or flourless chocolate cake for dessert.

1063 Wisconsin Ave., NW

For $35 at lunchtime and $65 at dinner, you possibly can try this Italian establishment in Georgetown, which has been round for 42 years. On the menu: meatballs, arancini with bolognese, rigatoni with house-made Italian sausage, and your alternative of mousse cake.

950 fifteenth St., NW

Downtown Southern eatery Georgia Brown’s has been slinging Carolina gumbo and hen and waffles for over three many years. Its Restaurant Week dinner menu goes for $55, and contains choices like goat-cheese-stuffed fried inexperienced tomatoes; pan-roasted mussels with white wine and andouille; fried hen with turkey collards; blackened sea bass with parmesan couscous; and peach cobbler.

480 Seventh St., NW

José Andrés’s 32-year-old tapas restaurant in Penn Quarter is serving four-course lunch ($35) and five-course dinner ($55) menus. Go for Spanish fare like patatas bravas; creamy hen croquetas; grilled hen with salsa verde; and Catalan flan. Our must-order: the kitchen’s gambas al ajillo.

1915 I St., NW

At chef Kaz Okochi’s 26-year-old sushi spot, count on a customizable $55 dinner menu. You’ll get one appetizer (pay an additional $10 and get two), a six-piece nigiri course (improve to bluefin otoro for an additional $4), two sushi rolls, and a dessert of chocolate lava cake or peach panna cotta.

2813 M St., NW

Subsequent 12 months, this French nation restaurant in Georgetown will have fun its 5oth anniversary. Throughout Restaurant Week, its almost similar $35 lunch and $65 dinner menus characteristic requirements like house-made pâté, rainbow trout amandine, and ice-cream-filled profiteroles.

2317 Calvert St., NW

This 39-year outdated fashionable American restaurant in Woodley Park will serve its $55 prix-fixe dinner menu by means of the top of February. Select dishes like onion fondue, steak frites, branzino with crushed potatoes, braised lamb shank, and banana-bread pudding.

401 Seventh St., NW

José Andrés’s Mexican small-plates restaurant opened 21 years in the past in Crystal Metropolis, then moved to Penn Quarter three years later. It’s providing $25 three-course lunch and $40 four-course dinner menus, that includes a roasted beet salad with cacao nibs, its signature cochinita pibil tacos, umami-packed quesadillas hongos, tamales verdes, and pineapple tres leches cake.

1811 Columbia Rd., NW

Credit score chef Masako Morishita for respiration new life into this 41 year-old Japanese eating room in Adams Morgan. Her specialty is Japanese consolation meals, and standout plates on her $55 three-course dinner menu embrace miso-grilled lotus root with avocado and salmon roe; wagyu curry rice; trout en papillote; and the red-bean dessert featured on the duvet of February’s 100 Very Finest Eating places challenge.

633 D St., NW ; 1190 New Hampshire Ave., NW

Nationally beloved Indian restaurant Rasika first opened its doorways in Penn Quarter 20 years in the past; a West Finish sibling arrived in 2012. At each areas, discover $35 lunch and $55 dinner menus (sure, the signature palak chaat is an possibility on each). Selections embrace sweet-potato samosas; tandoori Scottish salmon; hen tikka masala; a vegetable thali; and berry-mango rasmalai.

1776 I St., NW

This 36-year-old downtown DC Spanish restaurant will serve up specials all day—$25 brunches and lunches, in addition to a $40 dinner menu. Count on eggplant chips with honey; swordfish with creamy basil rice; a tarta de limon; and extra.

815 Connecticut Ave., NW

This 37 year-old Indian eating room close to the White Home (a Clinton administration favourite) will provide $35 lunch and $55 dinner menus. Search for elegant dishes that don’t draw back from spice—shrimp with tamarind and chilies; duck korma; crab with spicy tomato chutney; and extra.

1120 King St., Alexandria

For comforting dishes like crispy oysters with candy and bitter apples, beer-battered catfish, heat apple-cider cake with whipped cream cheese, and ricotta pancakes, head to this 22-year-old seasonal American restaurant in Outdated City. Brunch will go for $25, whereas dinner is $55 (a wine pairing is $30 extra).

701 Ninth St., NW

José Andrés opened his hit Mediterranean-influenced restaurant 23 years in the past in Penn Quarter (it has since spawned areas in New York, LA, and Miami, plus a cookbook). Its $55 dinner menu options 4 mezze plus dessert, whereas the $35 lunch is three mezze and dessert. Go for dips, cumin-spiced meatballs, lemony sautéed shrimp, and Greek yogurt with apricots.