Girl Meets Food

DC Summer Restaurant Week is from Monday, August 16, to Sunday, August 22, offering a three-course lunch for $20.10, and a three-course dinner at $35.10 per person.

But you don’t have to wait.  Here are some restaurants offering prix fixe menus before, during or after DC Summer Restaurant Week.  Check back for updates and additions!

The Fourth Estate Restaurant serves stylish American food in the historic National Press Club, using locally grown produce and meats for a menu that elevates taste above trendiness. They will be extending the special Restaurant Week menu an extra week, from August 23-29, 2010.  They also have a three-course prix pixe menu for $30 per person Thursday through Saturday. The Fourth Estate Restaurant, 529 14th St NW, 13th Floor.  202.662.7638

Nage Bistro will offer its special Restaurant Week menu throughout the entire month of August.  Start with a wild mushroom Baklava with pecans, blueberry compote, thyme, and goat cheese foam.  A choice of entrées includes grilled swordfish with seasoned bread crumbs, watermelon, and fennel; and Cajun meatloaf with rapini, potatoes, sundried tomatoes, and rosemary jus.  Nage Bistro, 1600 Rhode Island Avenue, NW.  202.448.8005.

In addition to offering a three-course Restaurant Week menu of innovative Japanese charcoal-grilled meats, fish and vegetables, Kushi Izakaya & Sushi will offer an expertly crafted sake pairing featuring three varieties of sake for $20.  The sake pairing is available during lunch and dinner throughout Restaurant Week.  Kushi Izakaya & Sushi, 465 K Street, NW.  202.682.3123

Restaurant 3 will extend their Restaurant Week menu for an extra week, from August 23-29, 2010, with a menu of comfort food full of soulful Southern flavor.  Restaurant 3, 2950 Clarendon Blvd., Arlington, VA.  703-524-4440.

Café Saint-Ex will offer an indulgent three-course Restaurant Week menu during lunch only which will extend for an extra week, from August 23-29, 2010.  Cafe Saint-Ex serves up American Bistro style cuisine that comfort, while prepared with the finest quality ingredients.  Café Saint-Ex, 1847 14th Street NW. 202.265.7839

Rasika has a three-course prix fixe menu that start with tikka kaliya, seekh kebabs, clam caldine or sev puri; entrées such as chicken makhani, lamb roganjosh and tandoori salmon; and gulab jamun for dessert.  $30 per person Monday to Friday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Saturday from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. 633 D Street, NW, with validated valet parking for $7.  202.637.1222

The Oval Room’s three-course prix fixe menu that showcases appetizers such as roasted baby beets with walnuts and goat cheese; and crudo of rockfish with sweet chili, mango and cilantro. Featured entrées include shellfish broth and herb oil; and roasted beef striploin with Swiss chard. Dessert options include almond brown butter cake; or chocolate-red beet cake with and pistachio ice cream. $35 per person from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. nightly. The Oval Room, 800 Connecticut Avenue, NW.  202.463.8700.

Bibiana Osteria-Enoteca’s three-course pre-fixe menu starts with tonno with salad confit yellow fin tuna; or zuppa with chilled fennel soup. Entrée options are paccheri with large rigatoni with raisins, pine nuts and pecorino; and sheep’s milk ricotta ravioli with lemon and spinach. For the sweet, try panna cotta with a liquid black cherry bottom; tiramisu; and crema pasticcera with fried Nutella pastry cream. $30 per person from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Bibiana Osteria-Enoteca, 1100 New York Ave. NW.  (202) 216-9550.

701 Restaurant’s three-course pre-theater menu features grilled pineapple salad with jalapeño, hearts of palm and lime. Entrées such as roasted cod with lentils, haricot verts, and ver jus emulsion; petite prime New York steak; and goat cheese cavatelli with artichokes and oyster mushrooms. For dessert, try fresh berries with orange compari sorbet; or strawberry gelée with frozen yogurt.  $30 per person from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 5:00 to 9:30 p.m. on Sunday. 701 Restaurant, 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.  202.393.0701.

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In the Legg Mason Tennis Classic, the competition can be hot.

This year, it’s about to get hotter.

On Monday, August 2, 2010 from 6 to 8 p.m., Chefs Todd Gray of Equinox and Kaz Okochi of Masa 14, go head-to-head in an Iron Chef-style competition to see who will be Legg Mason’s first King of the Kitchen.

A panel of celebrity judges will sample each dish before crowning the official Legg Mason Tennis Classic “King of the Kitchen.”

Tickets for the King of the Kitchen are $70, which includes the competition, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and a ticket to the 4 p.m. tennis match.  Be one of the first ten people to mention Girl Meets Food and get 20% off!  Get your tickets here!

Legg Mason Hospitality Tent
William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
16th & Kennedy Streets, NW
Washington, D.C. 20011

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With warmer weather comes the inevitable question: Where can we dine alfresco in this town and still get a mouthwatering meal? Enter Cashion’s Eat Place, where the gastro gurus open the doors and windows as the mercury rises.

This Adams Morgan eatery mixes the funk of the neighborhood with the laid-back luxe Washingtonians crave. Today’s deal gets you $50 worth of reinvented organic fare for just $25.

Start with the veal sweetbread or the broiled Alaskan king crab leg with prosciutto. With main courses like the muscovy duck confit and the slow-roasted goat, you’ll never again wonder where to wander in warm weather.

No cash value/cash back
* No limit – buy as many as you’d like!
* Entire value must be used in one visit
* Cannot be combined with any other offer or promotion
* Up to 2 vouchers can be used per table
* Tax and gratuity not included (be nice and tip on the pre-discounted total!)
* Dine-in only (not valid for takeout or delivery)
* Reservations strongly recommended
Must be redeemed by September 24th, 2010