Next week is Restaurant week in Wash DC. $20 lunch, $30 dinner. Last year DC Coast allowed the whole menu, not just a couple of specials.

I will be going to Ortanique on Tues, as Tues is half price wine day.

The other restaurants I will try to get to are:1789, Melrose, Morrison-Clark, New Heights, Seasons, Signatures, TenPenh, Vidalia, and Bistro Bis.

January 12-18: DC Coast, Galileo, Vidalia and more than 100 other top DC-area dining establishments serve three-course $20.04 lunches and $30.04 dinners during winter Restaurant Week
http://www.washington.org/restaurantwk/

Charlie Palmer Steak, Equinox, Oceanaire Seafood Room, Sea Catch and Signatures are some of the top dining spots extending their Restaurant Week $20.04 lunch and/or $30.04 dinner menus throughout January.

from Zagat.com

Ortanique is an iDine!

Bistro Bis -- highly recommend their French Onion soup, though I'm keen on the place generally. They offer one of the best brunch deals in town on an ongoing basis -- Saturday and Sunday, 3-couse brunch, anything on the menu, $20.

Elysium (what I assume you're referring to as Morrison-Clark) has fallen a bit and I haven't been back in about 11 months. But it holds a special place for me still.

Vidalia used to be my favorite restaurant in DC. It declined a bit, got a new chef, and I haven't been back since they renovated. Thanks for the reminder, I think I'll pop in there soon!

Most interesting thing about Signatures is, I think, that they deliver sushi!

Re: New Heights, please backchannel me.

Elysium is in the Morrison House in Alexandria. A small Lux hotel(never stayed there) with a very fine restaurant in a very lovely room(as long as the bar crowd does not get too loud singing "Sweet Adeline".

Morrison-Clark is a small lux hotel on Mass Ave(1000 or so NW) where Susan somebody or another used to cook. I do not think the restaurant has a name.

I have never eaten at the no name restaurant. The Elysium is one of the closest restaurants to my house, and I have eaten there quite a few times. The food is always good, but they go through chefs faster than Danny S goes through coaches.

Joe Gibbs has returned. Hail the conquering hero!

Thanks for clearing that up! Was confused...

Went to Ortanique and Signatures so far. This is the first time I have actually eaten the food week menus.

Ortanique was very good, with a decent selection, and Signatures was spectacular. The chef is in his mid 20's, and he really can cook. Free valet parking.

Both places are somewhat noisy.

Getting a table is not easy. skipped TenPenh, as 5:00 and 9:00 was all that was avialable on two different days.

I noticed a couple of two-fers for Restaurant Week --- restaurants on their list and also on iDine!!!

I am going to David Greggory tonight -- been waiting to try it.

RE: Vidalia -- I had heard the same, that the food/service had dropped off a bit. But they closed for a while, re-tooled, new chef, etc. I will be going to a catered meeting there next week (I know, not the best way to judge a restaurant) but will report back.

Actually David Greggory was a 3-fer... Restaurant Week, iDine, and Open Table.

(Ortanique was, as well... along with TenPenh and DC Coast, I think.)

[This message has been edited by gleff (edited Jan 17, 2004).]