Rustico Celebrates Five Years With a Week of Specials
Posted by The Editorial Desk / Friday, May 6th, 2011
Image: Neighborhood Restaurant Group
Birthdays tend to be a pretty self-indulgent celebration. You wake up, people give you stuff, buy you dinner, you get to pick what movie to watch and everyone has to at least pretend to like you—and there’s cake! So since we’re going down this path of hedonistic birthday indulgence, why not stretch that celebration out to a full week?
That’s what Alexandria’s Rustico restaurant and bar will be doing to celebrate their 5th year in operation from May 9 to May 13, and they’re sharing the wealth with a week’s worth of specials for cheap booze and food.
Monday, May 9 – The restaurant will be offering their pizzas for $5, not bad considering they can run up to $16 on a normal night. The special only runs from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m., so you’ll have to sprint or concoct some sort of illness to beat traffic. Just don’t get fired over it. It’s only pizza, after all.
Tuesday, May 10 – Two of the Rustico’s original bartenders, Greg Engert (one of Food and Wine’s Best Sommeliers of 2010) and Nahem Simon, will get dragged kicking and screaming from their current pouring grounds at D.C.’s Churchkey and Birch and Barley to serve for the evening. Topping that off: $5 for all draft beers, and $2 off of that from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Not a bad way to get intimate with the bar’s excellent, but rich, draft list.
Wednesday, May 11 – Local brewing superstars D.C. Brau and Port City Brewing will be pouring their new beers all night and also, hopefully, fight one-another to the death. Also, free glassware.
Thursday, May 12 – Rustico chef Steve Mannino will be manning the backyard barbecues and serving up plates of brisket, cole slaw, deviled eggs (aragrgargag) and more for $15, plus free cake from Alexandria’s Buzz Bakery.
Friday, May 13 – Jackpot. Happy hour deals all night. $2 off all draft beers, $5 for all wines by the glass, $3.50 for canned craft beer. You can also get $2 cans of college beer, if you want to get judged.
Rustico Restaurant and Bar
827 Slaters Lane
Alexandria, Va. 22314
Phone: 703.224.5051
- Kris King
Tags: happy hour, Rustico, specials