If you live in the Washington, D.C. area and looking for great places to eat that aren’t chain restaurants, then there’s a resource for you.
Several months ago, Kellie and I were clued into something called Tastings Journal.
Once a month, for at least a week and sometimes longer, they team up with a restaurant in the D.C. area to offer a four or five course tasting menu, usually including paired wines or other drinks, for what are really good prices (typically from $ 45 to $ 55 per person for the entire tasting).
Thanks to these guys, we’ve discovered two great restaurants we might not have found otherwise; Cabanas at Georgetown Harbour and 100 King in Alexandria. Next week, we’ll be going to a new restaurant downtown and the tasting menu there looks great.
If you’re interested, you can go to their website and sign up to get on the mailing list.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:06 am
A good resource, IMO, for checking out menus in DC (and some other areas) is MenuPages - http://washingtondc.menupages.com/. They don’t offer any discounts that I’m aware of, but at least you can see what is on the menu.
January 21st, 2007 at 10:41 am
[...] Last night, Kellie and I had dinner at this new restaurant attached to the Renaissance Hotel on 9th Street in D.C. and had a great night. It was another one of the Tastings Journal events that I wrote about earlier this month. [...]