DC Restaurant Week Spill-overs

Posted by The Editorial Desk / Monday, August 16th, 2010

Welcome to DC Restaurant Week!  For those new to the occasion (like me!), this means guests have the opportunity to taste a multi-course menu from participating restaurants for a discount price – usually $20.10 for lunch or $35.10 for dinner.  Let the feasting begin!  As for me, I’ll be highlighting the specials in NoVa.

1. The Grille at Morrison House
2. 703-838-8000
3. 116 S. Alfred Street, Alexandria

Come for dinner with a tasting menu to feature all the house favorites: heirloom tomato gazpacho, salade du Marché, braised Kurobuta pork cheek, braised boneless beef short rib, braised veal breast, mussel frites, and for dessert a warm peach cake or milk chocolate pot de crème.

1. Jackson 20
2. 703-842-2790
3. 480 King Street, Alexandria

Chef Marron has prepared a menu for lunch and dinner with multiple savory and sweet options: barbecued pork ribs, Trout Marguery (grilled and served with shrimp and lemon oyster sauce), and including the whole-shebang of a dessert list – pineapple upside-down cake, a peach turnover with sweetened crème fraiche and blueberry compote – just to name a few.

1. Trummer’s on Main
2. 703-266-1623
3. 7134 Main Street, in historic Clifton

Trummer’s will be making its debut to RW week with a three course dinner menu offering options of Goat Cheese Agnolotti (pickled rhubarb, black pepper shortbread, fried capers), Chilled Mulligatawny Soup (laughing bird shrimp, yuzu sorbet, apple crisp), North Carolina Tilefish, Grilled Lamb Brisket, Berry Cobbler (brown sugar streusel, vanilla sherbet, basil meringue), The Chocolate Cake and more.

1. 2941 Restaurant
2. 703-270-1500
3. 2941 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church

Participating with its three course lunch menu of Red Beet Salad, Beef Teres Major and Hazelnut Paris-Brest.

1. Bastille Restaurant
2. 703-519-3776
3. 1201 N. Royal Street, Alexandria

With this dinner menu, you can also add a cheese course for an additional $9 or indulge with wines paired especially for each course ($25 pp).  The three course meal provides a variety of choices including a beignet of oysters, Bastille Caesar salad (with romaine and radicchio sprinkled with Parmesan and white anchovy Panacotta), pan-roasted skate filet, roasted Pennsylvania leg of lamb and Merguez sausage, roasted corn risotto and more.  Then for dessert, delight in the raspberry crème brûlée, the Valrhona chocolate cake, orange cardamom flan – just to name a few.  

1. Harry’s Tap Room in Clarendon
2. 703-778-7788
3. 2800 Clarendon Blvd, Arlington

Offering a menu for both lunch and dinner with multiple options like Baked Brie or Lemongrass Chicken Bon bons; Grilled Hangar Steak, Chicken Pesto Panini (lunch) or Horseradish North Pacific Salmon (dinner); Raspberry Sorbet, Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding, and more.

1. Willow Restaurant
2. 703-465-8800
3. 4301 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington
4. Participating for lunch and dinner with a three course menu to sample Cucumber and Avocado Gazpacho, Liberty Town Flat Bread, or Crispy-Fried Soft Shell Crab(dinner); Parmesan crusted Swordfish Medallions (lunch), Bacon-wrapped Monkfish filet (dinner) or Ratatouille and Ricotta Stuffed Squash Blossoms; Passionfruit Meringue Tart or a Flourless Chocolate Torte and much more.

I’m hungry now – actually I’m borderline ravenous and it isn’t even noon yet.  

(Photo: I Know U Can)

For a full listing, or if you care to go the extra mile into DC for your discount bites, check the official DC Restaurant Week Page.

-Jamel Daugherty

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