418 Seventh St., NW.Ĭedric Maupillier, a Michel Richard acolyte, is low-key one of the best chefs in the city. Wine specials include glasses for $8 or $13 and bottles for $30 or $52. Dumplings are the way to go here, and you can choose from a couple of them on the $40 four-course menu, along with salmon tiradito, chicken stew with aji amarillo, and fried rice with a rainbow of veggies. Jose Andres’s color-splashed Penn Quarter dining room is an ode to Peruvian cuisine-and its Chinese and Japanese influences. There is just a single option for each course-Coho salmon with buttermilk, sorrel, and raspberry brioche-stuffed chicken and strawberry ambrosia-but that very same menu (with a few other options) would ordinarily run you $84. The good news: the 14th Street restaurant is extending the promotion to 5:30 tables on Wednesdays and Thursdays through the end of the month. The bad news: most tables and all takeout orders for Ryan Ratino’s whimsical dinner menu are already sold out. To drink, there are a few $8 glass/$30 bottle wine specials.
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The Georgetown French hangout is notable for its sheer variety: there are brunch, lunch, and $40 dinner menus with lots of bistro standards: onion soup, escargots with garlic butter, coq au vin, and steak frites (which you can upgrade from a coulotte to either New York strip or filet mignon for an upcharge). Both are options, along with Eastern Shore-inspired grilled rainbow trout with sauteed crab and Old Bay potatoes pork-leg Milanese and peach upside-down cake.
Two things he’s known for: soups and gnocchi. Veteran chef Frank Ruta (formerly of Palena and the White House) is offering a lovely-sounding late summer $55 menu for both dine-in and curbside pickup at this Dupont dining room. 465 K St., NW 2911 District Ave., Fairfax. Desserts include a vanilla-cheesecake brownie, ricotta doughnuts, and cannoli. Go for checkered-tablecloth classics like fried calamari, penne alla vodka, and chicken parm. Michael Schlow’s Italian-American spots in Mount Vernon Triangle and the Mosaic District are offering a big chunk of the regular dinner menu for their $40 promotion, which is also available for takeout. Pepperoni pizza with honey at All-Purpose Pizzeria. Plus, you’re all but guaranteed to bring home leftover pizza. Bookend one of the deck-oven pies (I’m partial to the zesty Enzo the Baker and the honey-drizzed Buona) with a house salad, which is basically an Italian sub in bowl form, or the super-rich garlic knots, then end with a slice of almond-scented rainbow cake.
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1226 36th St., NW.īoth the Navy Yard and Shaw locations of this pizzeria are offering $40 dinners, plus 15 percent off select bottles of wine. If you’re feeling fancy-and are cool with traditional, granny-chic decor-this is a really good bet. The $55 dinner menu offers lots of choices, like rabbit roulade with black-locust gastrique, New Bedford scallops with trout roe and English peas, roasted Rohan duck breast, and Meyer-lemon cremeux. Now, he’s quietly taken over the kitchen at this Georgetown fine-dining institution. When Adam Howard was the chef at Blue Duck Tavern, it landed in the top 20 of our 100 Best Restaurants list. Now that you’re ready to conquer RW2K22, here’s what’s on my list:
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Would your three courses ordinarily add up to $55? Depending on what you order, the answer might be no-or you may just be getting a free dessert.
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This mostly applies to that $55 dinner “deal.” Many restaurants are cribbing dishes from their regular menus (or offering full run of those menus). But some restaurants sprinkle them onto menus far more liberally than others.
* Also watch out for surcharges and supplements. A few places have drinking deals, marked on the RAMW site (yay for $8 glasses of wine). If you’ve got budget front and center on your mind, know that in this era of $17 cocktails, a couple bevs can double your bill.