Restaurant Week

I managed to snag tables this week at two restaurants I was very interested in trying out. I had wanted to go back to Corduroy, but the earliest table I could get at any time during the week was 10 PM, which is a bit too late for me to be starting dinner downtown on a school night. =( Since I was originally planning to be out of town starting about now, I didn't try for any more reservations. All things considered, that's probably not a bad thing. (If you're not familiar with Restaurant Week, the deal is that participating restaurants offer a three-course dinner for $30 and lunch for $20; they do it once in January and usually again in August. Depending on the restaurant, it could be a special limited menu, or you could be able to choose from their usual menu with perhaps an upcharge for some of the items.)

Anyway, the two places I ate this week were Willow and Ten Penh. I've been wanting to go to Willow for ages, and tommx speaks highly of Ten Penh, so I grabbed a Tuesday reservation at Willow as an anniversary date with one of my partners and a Thursday table at Ten Penh as a spiffy date night with another.

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Willow, by the way, is extending their Restaurant Week menu through January 26, so if you missed it this week, you've got another shot. DC Foodies has a list of restaurants that are extending their Restaurant Week offerings for periods ranging from one extra week to the entire month of January. Oooh, Corduroy is one of the one-week extensions. Bet I'm still out of luck on useful reservation times though.

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