DC Restaurant Week Menus

Tabaq has their listed at http://www.tabaqdc.com/files/2007RestaurantWeekMenu.pdf and you can find Viridians under their "events" link in their sidebar.

I was told my the manager that Post is completely booked for Restaurant Week, but the good news is that they are extending it an additional week.

Just added Indique and Indique Heights.

Hey y'all, don't forget that Baltimore Restaurant Week is happening just 30 minutes north of DC this week until August 5. Sandwiched between Bethesda's and DC's, that's three weeks of good, uncharacteristically inexpensive food!

I know Francesco Ricchi opened Cesco Trattoria in Bethesda with Roberto Donna a little while back...is that what you're looking for, or does he have a newer place?

ACCORDING TO DCFOODIES, CAFE ATLANTICO HAS ALSO EXTENDED THEIR RW AN EXTRA WEEK INTO MID AUG. HOWEVER, NO RW MENU POSTED ON THEIR WEBSITE...

I was about to say...

That wouldn't surprise me, since the rest of their restaurants are doing that. However, Cafe Atlantico always has a price fixed 3 course menu. Cafe Atlantico is good, but it's not exactly a the best place to go during Restaurant Week.

Here are some excellent choices for dining in Las Vegas. We usually stay at the Venitian, and there are two restaurants that are out of this world. First is Aquanox. Upscale seafood. We have eaten there every time we go since we found it, last time in May and it is the first reservation we make every time we go to Las Vegas. Always inventive, fresh and outstanding. We also tried Mario Batali's new restaurant B & B. It was amazing. We did one of the tasing menus. It might have been even better than Aquanox.
There is also a casual and inexpensive Pan Asian called Noodle Asia on the casino floor that has excellent dumplings and noodle dishes.
Just saw a tv show that recommended three off the strip restaurants that are local favorites: Lotus of Siam, Firefly and Todd's Unique...

Posh has yet to post their Restaurant Week menu on their website, and I'm growing more and more skeptical that they're going to be worth the RW try. Any insight, Jason? Anyone else been there?

Thanks, Jason. I called them last Friday and the person I spoke to told me that they hadn't set their RW menu yet. Guess she didn't ask the right person.

Had lunch @ Farrah Oliva today--their RW lunch menu is no different from their regular menu: 3 courses for $20 2 for $16 or $17. Food was very good, but the unpleasant attitude from waiter made me question my taking the trip to Alexandria. Dinner had a RW-specific menu it seemed.

So far I have had dinner at Bistro Bis and IndeBleu and was fairly impressed with both.

Bistro Bis was very nice and the service was actually excellent. I appreciate that they offer their whole menu, even if they have upcharges--I hate when there's something I really want to try on the real menu but no possibility of getting it on the RW menu. I loved the fish dish I had, although I'm now totally blanking on what it was...I want to say rockfish? Everything else was delicious, although not especially memorable.

Dinner at IndeBleu last night was really great too. I had read mixed reviews, especially during RW, but was happy with the experience. I had the mushroom dosa, the seared tuna, and the mango dessert. All of it was tasty and well presented, and the dosa was especially good. The portion size for the tuna was tiny given it's regular price; I hope that they downsized it for RW. It was, however, perfect for me as I usually struggle to eat three courses.

I'm going to Colvin Run on Thursday and Hook on Saturday and hope that these experiences will be pleasant as well.

I just went to dinner to Bobby Van's Steakhouse yesterday and had the RW menu. It was the worst experiance I ever had. First off the waiter did not know what a salad consisted of, although he has been serving that salad all weeksinec there are only 2 options :) The bread was stale and dry, they probaly cut it and left it out in baskets all day. Then the steak. It was the worst steak I ever had. It was supposed to be a Filet Mignon, but tasted like a cut that was close to the liver. It looked and tasted like it was boiled and the mashed potatoes were cold. The spinach tasted like it was something you could buy frozen at Giant. For $30 I would prefer to go to my local Sweet Water Tavern and get an excellent steak that is a 10 oz size with a salad. We then decided we were absolutely not going to eat this and asked the waiter to chnage, which they did politly. I got the salmon and my friend got the crab cake. Full of filler. The salmon was the end cut that you should never serve at restaurants and was so think I could see through it.

I know that they are an expensive restaurant and that RW may not bring in as much revenue as if they were booked with regular crowd but if they do not intend to do a good job they should not participate in the RW. They still make a bulk load of money from assembly line cooking. I am really upset and intend to write them. I would never go there again to spend my money on a regular menu, even if it is better. Ruth's Chris and Smith and Wollensky both had excellent steak during restaurant week last year and thay made me want to go back another time.

FYI. I just updated the listing for I Ricchi which is NOT offering their full menu. Sorry if I mislead anyone about that.

I had lunch this week at Corduroy. It was by far the worst restaurant experience I've had in a while. My reservation was for 1:30 and the service was so slow I didn't get out of there until well after 3. My dish (nicoise salad) was so salty I couldn't eat it. The tuna was actually crunchy because there was so much salt. Also, the salad only had a few onions and 5 green beans. I could be wrong, but this was far from being a nicoise. The servers also played "deal a meal" with each course because they couldn't remember what we had. They also consisently gave us the wrong silverware for each meal. Did I mention the restaurant wasn't busy? There was no excuse. Over all, my suggestion is to avoid this place like the plague. Try Ceiba instead. Their restaurant week lunch is WONDERFUL!!!!

I had a completely different experience than Amy at Corduroy. I went there for dinner on Monday, and each dish was great. At our table, we had the tuna, scallops, and lamb. On the other hand, Cafe Atlantico was very poor. The deconstructed pork chop was bland, as were the rice and beans that came with it. The salmon was also very bland. Only two desert options - chocolate cake and coconut ice crea - were available, and neither was impressive. This was my test run before signing up for Minibar, and now I doubt I'll go.

A quick comment on Hook - I went there for lunch and it was very good. Two different crudo trios to choose from and 5 salads choices for the first course. 6 or 7 different entrees including wahoo, yellowfin, mackeral and bluefish (all which were delicious) and 2 desserts. So a bit more selection than predicted. of course, its thursday so anyone who was going to make reservations probably already made them :)

We just came from Il Ricchi. It's the worst meal we've had since we're in Washington. It's overpriced, pretentious, with mediocre service, obnoxious management, as well as charmlessly and ungraciously noisy and crowded. For the "bargain" price of what worked out to $40 person with wine, we couldn't get lemon for our water or ground pepper on our salad. Even ordering off the regular menu rather than the RW menu, I wasn't impressed. My side salad ($10.95) was pathetically wilted, and I sent it back for replacement. With all the excellent restaurants in Washington--and this is the first meal we've eaten that hasn't been spectacular, whether an elegant dinner at the Peacock Cafe in Georgetown(HIGHLY recommended for really elegant and gracious dining that Il Ricchi can't even aspire to), a zesty Ethiopian feast at Zed, or delicious Persian take-out from Moby Dick--whoever you are, you deserve better than Il Ricchi.

I went to Colvin Run Tavern last night for dinner with two of my girlfriends. The food was good, but not great. We were a bit rushed at the beginning of our meal, but as the dining room started to empty out (our reservations were for 8:30) the service became better. I had the squid with green papaya salad to start, which was really delicious and perfectly cooked--not at all chewy. Next came the pistachio-crusted salmon, which was good but didn't blow me away. I saw someone else get served the cod and think I may have ordered wrong. My girlfriends really enjoyed the salmon tartare and ravioli appetizers, but were not crazy about their brisket entrees. They looked sort of gross to me, but I haven't eaten red meat in years so I don't think that means anything. We had two of the sour cherry creme brulees and one of the chocolate souffles for dessert, both of which were fine, but hardly impressive. While I don't generally order creme brulee, I had high expectations for this version, but unfortunately I found it just as boring as the version that is on every single halfway decent restaurant's menu, with just a few cherries thrown into the custard that seemed like an afterthought.

It was nice not to have to go downtown (as we live in Virginia), and overall I had a more or less pleasant experience, but wouldn't feel compelled to go back even if it were in my price range.

Ardeo (went last night) has the full menu with only a few surcharges for restaurant week. It was really good, and a bit off the typical path if you can't get reservations elsewhere!

You're making me homesick...

Sadly there are no restaurants to have restaurant week with here in Upstate NY.

I so want to move back.

I've never heard of a place limiting the RW offerings to a specific time period. Generally speaking, if they're participating during lunch, it's for the entire lunch service and if they're participating for dinner it's for the dinner service.

Marsha re: I Ricchi, thank you for that! We had the same experience with I Ricchi!

The music was computerized MIDI classical music, the most recognizable passages of all trite classical music played during our short visit. The sparkling water was tepid, and cost 9.95. The omnipresent pretention was totally unfounded.

The limited menu seemed confining, so we added $18.95 Calamari which were acceptable.

The oversized shrimp dish contained bell peppers STILL carrying the produce sticker! We were offered no replacement or discount for this, the waiter removed the offending vegetable from my friend's plate and disappeared.

DO NOT VISIT!!!!

I called a few weeks ago for a RW reservation at Corduroy and was told that they were fully booked and were running it a second week so we are going this Wednesday. We loved it last time!

Lima is also extending until the 18th. I am going tonight- I hope it's good.