*(30 Rock is awesome!)
For those of you living in the DC area, you have to check out iEatDC’s recap of her recent trip to Volt, the Bryan Voltaggio (of Top Chef fame) restaurant in Frederick, MD. It looks so good, I want to go to there immediately!
Being someone who likes cooking and appreciates the finer things (especially when it comes to food), going to new restaurants is truly a form of entertainment for me. I get really excited when special occasions roll around and we get to pick out a fun restaurant to celebrate with. I am fortunate that I have friends and family who recognize this about me and who indulge my foodie tendencies—Jason took me to Kinkead’s, a veritable institution in DC, right after he proposed and my bridesmaids kicked off my bachelorette party last summer with dinner at Eventide (a 2009 James Beard Award semi-finalist)!
Although we only make it to a couple of super foodie places a year (given that a lot of these places are pricey and we don’t have an unlimited budget), it is still fun for me to plot out the places I would like to visit. Here is what’s on my list for this year (in no particular order) with brief descriptions courtesy of the Washingtonian’s Top 100 restaurants issue:
-Volt: “Arguably Maryland’s best restaurant…seamlessly fuses rustic, seasonal cooking with hyper-modern techniques without overworking either”
-Restaurant Eve: Tasting menu carefully crafted by one of the area’s brightest stars (we might actually make it there this year thanks to an awesome off-registry wedding gift from fellow members of the Finer Things Club!)
-2941: destination restaurant with “rich, rigorously executed French dishes” (we also seriously considered having our wedding here)
-Rasika: “Modern Indian cooking, exuberantly conceived and executed with precision” (I’ve actually eaten here before but Jason hasn’t; we tried to go in December but were foiled by the Snowpacalypse…..the first one)
-Proof: Wine bar with an “ambitious and interesting kitchen.”
-Trummer’s on Main: “Ambitious newcomer…has emerged as a home of elegant rusticity”
Hopefully we’ll be able to make it to at least a few of these this year. Good thing someone’s birthday is just around the corner…. :)
So, we are officially the same person in many ways. And, while I know you will love Restaurant Eve, we have been to Rasika a few times and love it. Try that during the next Restaurant Week. We want to go to Volt too! Maybe a special occasion...like a 30th birthday :)
ReplyDeleteHeey thanks for the shout out! Volt was so yummy, I want to go back for weekend lunch. It can be sort of a bargain in the lounge. And when the weather gets nice you can spend the day in and around Frederick, there are wineries nearby. Yes!
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