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| Photo by Bill Adler |
by Peggy Robin
It started out as a marketing gimmick: Pick a normally slow
time for the dining-out crowd and declare it “Restaurant Week,” and offer some enticing
prix-fixe deals for a three-course meal, and prest-o-change-o, your slowest
week turns into hard-to-get-a-table time. People who normally wouldn’t brave
the cold and/or snow/wind/ice are coming out to sit by your hearth (if you have
one) and enjoy some cold-weather comfort food at warm, inviting prices.
Here we are, nineteen years later, and the marketing gimmick
has turned into a Fine Old Washington Tradition. And it’s one that keeps on
finding new adherents to keep it going strong. How else can newcomers,
lower-earning millennials, and anyone else on a strained budget get a chance to
sample the fare at some of DC’s three-to-five star restaurants, which are also
usually $$$ to $$$$ in the Washingtonian’s 100 Very Best Restaurants Guide?
Your chance to eat out for less than you would during Rest-of-Restaurant-Year
starts on Monday, January 13 and ends on Sunday, January 19, 2020. There’s
usually a Summer Restaurant Week as well, for those of you who don’t summer
elsewhere. (If you’re wondering whether “summer” can be used as a verb, that
means you don’t own a summer cottage on The Vineyard. If you spend a week or even a month at
Ocean City or Rehoboth, no, that does not count as “summering” anywhere.)
During this Winter Restaurant Week, you can have lunch or brunch
at any of the hundreds of participating restaurants for $22; dinner is $35.
If you would like to spend your Restaurant Week dollars right here
in the neighborhood (what a good idea!) - here’s what comes up when you go to the Restaurant Week
website at https://www.ramw.org/restaurantweek
and then select “Cleveland Park” from the “Neighborhood” search box:
Sababa
3311 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20008
(202) 244-6750
Bindaas
3311 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20008
(202) 244-6550
La Piquette
3714 Macomb Street NW
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 686-2015
Silver Cathedral Heights
3404 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 851-3199
Can’t go wrong with any of the above!
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Still Life with Robin is published on the Cleveland Park Listserv and on All Life Is Local on Saturdays.
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