A Georgian spread at Tabla in Park View. Photograph by Reema Desai
DC Winter season Cafe Week returns on Monday, January 25—though points search a whole lot diverse this year. In addition to running for an prolonged two weeks, dining establishments have a amount of takeout and supply solutions with to-go drink pairings. There’s also additional flexibility in rate. Collaborating eating places will provide multi-training course evening meal menus for $35 and/or $55 for each man or woman and may also serve family members-design and style deals for two ($60 to $100) or four ($130 to $210). Lunch and brunch menus could also be offered for $22 per individual.
Provided DC just lifted its indoor eating ban, you may possibly be in a position to try to eat inside at eating places that had been formerly shown as takeout or heated out of doors dining only. Virginia dining establishments continue on to welcome diners indoors at a 50 per cent, whilst Montgomery and Prince George’s counties stay shut for indoor dining.
Listed here are some new places to try close to DC.
All Working day by Kramers
1517 Connecticut Ave., NW
The lately revamped cafe at longtime Dupont Circle bookstore Kramer’s is serving a 3-study course lunch or evening meal to-go for $35. The menu (very same for equally meals) focuses on American convenience fare like creamy crab soup, veggie lasagna, and “goober pie.” Lunch and dinner takeout only.
Baan Siam
425 I St., NW
The new Mt. Vernon Triangle restaurant from the owners of beloved Logan Circle Thai joint Baan Thai is giving its fiery fare for supper to-go. The household-model meal, priced at $60 for two, involves a decision of drinks (we have our eye on the frozen lychee cocktail), two appetizers, two entrees, and a dessert from the prolonged normal menu—always a great Restaurant Week sign. Meal only takeout or delivery.
Bammy’s
301 Drinking water St., SE Suite 115
Ex-Maydan cooks Chris Morgan and Bill Addison opened their Jamaican cafe in Navy Lawn at the beginning of the pandemic. They’re providing two supper menus for Cafe 7 days: a 3-program $35 option with dishes like conch fritters and jerk hen, or a four-training course $55 menu with additions like goat curry. Dinner only takeout, shipping, and heated outdoor eating out there.
El Cielo
1280 4th St., NE
Famed Colombian chef Juan Manuel Barrientos opened his avant garde restaurant at Latin market La Cosecha in September. Aspects on the $55 Cafe 7 days menu haven’t been posted however regular menu dishes operate whimsical like a yucca “tree of life” and tropical fruit seafood ceviche. Indoor eating for dinner only.
Glover Park Grill
2505 Wisconsin Ave., NW
The most recent restaurant from chef Michael Schlow (Tico, Alta Strada) takes over his former Casolare area in Glover Park. The three-training course dinner menu offers plenty of hearty New American alternatives like pastrami-smoked salmon, whiskey-glazed pork rib chops, and heat caramelized apple crisp with selfmade ice product. Visitors can choose for to-go or out of doors eating on the heated winter season terrace. Meal only takeout, supply, and heated outdoor dining obtainable.
Muchas Gracias
5029 Connecticut Ave., NW
Oyamel alum Christian Irabién has turned out some of our favorite new Mexican fare at his pandemic period pop-up turned brick-and-mortar cafe. There are various Restaurant 7 days options in this article: a $22 lunch or weekend brunch that involves a nonalcoholic consume, appetizer (get the queso!), option of burritos or tacos, and tres leches cake. At meal, menus selection from a $35 taco feast for a single to a $55 loved ones-model food for a few with margaritas and complete roasted hen al pastor, in addition an $130 choice for four. Brunch, lunch, and evening meal takeout, shipping, and heated outside dining.
Officina Georgetown
1525 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Chef Nick Stefanelli’s industry and trattoria in the previous Through Umbria room will supply $35 and $55 supper menus and beverage pairings. Objects are not posted but frequent choices involve antipasti, home made pastas, and rustic entrees like braised brief ribs or entire fish. Meal only takeout and heated outside eating obtainable.
Prost
919 5th St., NW
Channel your finest Bavarian vibes at Mt. Vernon Triangle’s new German and Austrian beer corridor. The $35 Restaurant Week evening meal menu is not posted nonetheless, but there are programs to contain alcoholic beverage pairings. Usual dishes run the gamut from pretzels and sausages to schnitzel and spaetzle. Dinner only takeout and heated outdoor dining readily available.
Criollo at Service Bar
926-928 U St., NW
No, this U Avenue cocktail bar is not new—but it does have a brand new Peruvian food stuff pop-up, Criollo, which is a prelude to its sister cafe opening in Shaw. The $35 menu is pretty equivalent to the standard one (again, a excellent indicator) with Peruvian convenience dishes like sopa criolla, seafood rice, and lomo saltado. Patrons can choose for a $19 Pisco punch and Pisco bitter pairing. Supper only takeout and heated outside eating accessible.
Tabla
3227 Ga Ave., NW
If you have a comfort and ease food items craving for the Caucuses, this Georgian rapidly-everyday spinoff of Supra is your spot. The $35 evening meal menu hits all the classics: dips with selfmade flatbread, several models of khachapuri cheese bread, and khinkali soup dumplings. Patrons can also choose for a $25 bottle of wine. Meal only shipping and heated out of doors seating obtainable.
Xiquet by Danny Lledo
2404 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Chef and paella learn Danny Lledo’s wood-fired Valencian cafe opened just two months just before the pandemic hit. A $55 Cafe 7 days evening meal menu showcases the Spanish fare which include salt cod croquettes, wooden-grilled hen or dorade with seasonal mushrooms, and chocolate praline cake. Takeout dinner only.
Meals Editor
Anna Spiegel handles the eating and ingesting scene in her native DC. Prior to signing up for Washingtonian in 2010, she attended the French Culinary Institute and Columbia University’s MFA method in New York, and held a variety of cooking and creating positions in NYC and in St. John, US Virgin Islands.