#dining option

[realtorjamier]

8 Great Valentine’s Day Dining Options in the DMV!

Love is in the air, and often the way to a (wo)man’s heart is through the stomach. If you’re looking to make your Valentine’s day, the DMV region is teeming with tempting dining options: flights of caviar, creative cocktails, decadent desserts. We also have a variety of venues (because ambience is paramount)! DMV restaurant choices include sleek city settings, picturesque countryside locales, and waterfront backdrops.

Check out these eight great places to celebrate! Many restaurants will have prix fixe (several courses served for one fixed price), and all recommend making reservations early.

Red Fox Inn

2 E. Washington St. Middleburg, VA

The Red Fox Inn is a perfect destination restaurant to celebrate your love. Established in 1728, the historic romance of the tavern, combined with thoughtful seasonal culinary selections make for an unforgettable dining experience. Offered on February 13, 14, and 15, enjoy their Five Course Game & Seafood with optional wine pairings. Champagne pairings and Caviar Flights are also available.

La Petite Auberge

311 William Street Fredericksburg, VA

A favorite in Fredericksburg, the Valentine’s Day menu at La Petite Auberge begins with an Amuse Bouche (an appetizer with a literal translation of “it amuses the mouth”) of Risotto Fritter with Saffron Aioli and ends with a selection of desserts that all sound delectable. In between you’ll get two more courses plus an entree. C’est délicieux!

La Ferme Restaurant

7101 Brookville Rd Chevy Chase, MD

Treat “ton amour” to fine French Cuisine in an elegant country farmhouse located in the heart of the Chevy Chase villages. Their Valentine’s Day menu features seafood (including a “Cassolette of Snails,” of course!), beef, lamb, and more. And perhaps the pièce de résistance: L’assiette des Amoureux (an assortment of bite-sized desserts), served with a glass of house champagne.

Valentine’s Premier Dinner Cruise

City Experiences by Hornblower Pier 4 580 Water Street SW Washington, DC

Experience D.C.’s most stunning views while dining and dancing with your Valentine. This three-hour dinner cruise on the Potomac River features a premier plated dinner menu with options to upgrade your package to Silver, Gold or Platinum (a bottle of champagne, half-dozen roses, logoed flutes, and a guaranteed window seat).

Dutch’s Daughter

581 Himes Avenue Frederick, MD

The main level of Dutch’s Daughter’s has five refined dining rooms, each with a fireplace. But don’t be afraid of Dutch’s Dungeon, where you find a full bar with signature cocktails in a medieval decor setting (food is also available in the Dungeon).

L’Auberge Chez Francois Valentine’s Day Musical Celebration Experience

332 Springvale Rd Great Falls, VA

“Amour is in the Air” — and so is live music — at L’Auberge Chez François this Valentine’s Day. Considered one of OpenTable’s 100 Most Romantic Restaurants in America, and County Living and Good Housekeeping’s most romantic restaurant in the state of Virginia, Chef Jacques and his team will prepare a seven-course Musical Celebration Experience Menu. Favorites will include Lobster Martini with Osetra Caviar, Classic Chateaubriand for two, delectable Beef Wellington, sumptuous Le Homard du Maine (Maine lobster, jumbo lump crabmeat), and more. Romantic Guitar Extraordinaire Jarrett Laskey will be strolling throughout the five beautiful dining rooms performing for guests. If you’d like to continue your romance at home, choose an optional bottle of chilled Cremant d’Alsace Rose, and half a pound of Chef Pascal’s beautifully boxed delectable Chocolate Truffles infused with Grand Marnier.

Gravitas

1401 Okie Street NE Washington, DC

This modern American restaurant showcases the bounty of the Chesapeake Bay watershed in its seasonal cooking and sourcing. The Conservatory at Ivy City, its rooftop bar and lounge, offers cocktails and light bites or a full dinner. Valentine’s Day at Gravitas includes a four-course dinner from Chef Matt Baker, with optional wine pairings from Sommelier Angelo Perez. Champagne and Caviar Supplemental Course available as add-ons.

Morton’s The Steakhouse

7400 Wisconsin Avenue Bethesda, MD

Start your evening with a Love in Bloom Valentine’s Cocktail at Morton’s: a blend of Tito’s vodka, cointreau, hibiscus, and Prosecco. Follow up with the three-course Valentine’s Day menu featuring an amazing Chateaubriand Cut (with optional twin lobster tails or jumbo lump crab cakes) as the entree. Choose Morton’s Legendary Hot Chocolate Sundae for Two to top off this fabulous feast. Don’t forget Morton’s downtown DC, Arlington, and Reston locations!

[owchie-wowchie]

Holloway deserves to fucking kill someone while someone watches with starry eyes. Who, you may ask? Whoever you want, baby

[abyssalzones]

fully convinced [COLLEGE I ATTEND] is the real life backupsmore

[rimouskis]

okay not to whine after going to a vegan food festival but. why are restaurants increasingly becoming meat-oriented again.

[sunshinerory]

so like we know dinah likes to cook obviously, but i think she’d especially like to bake.

she would also be very aware that the easiest way to get greaseball to hang out with her instead of going out is to casually mention she’s gonna try some new recipes. suddenly she has a very eager taste tester that’s kind of just happy to wolf down treats

in that vein gb is probably so Not Picky about food because she probably has to eat a lot, so if dinah doesn’t like something she’s eating she can just hand it over to her girlfriend and it’ll be gone in a millisecond

[crossdressingdeath]

It is very funny that if you get dined upon at zee your crew kills and eats you and you have your little jaunt on the slow boat and then on returning to London you just go and find the same goddamn crew. The world's most awkward reunion. "Hullo lads, I trust I tasted delicious, hope your return to London didn't wreck my ship. Now then, back to it!" At least they're properly apologetic.

[faunandfloraas]

If I had a laptop I could be unstoppable (gif in bed)

[enbysiriusblack]

okay so. sorry to marauder fans here that aren't into good omens. but. im currently reading this book 'bodies and selves in early modern england' for university.

and im on the section about paradise lost, where Schoenfeldt writes, "Milton here explores the aphrodisiac function of food; an act of symbolic disobedience, eating the fruit actually invites into the body a substance that alters its conduct."

and now I'm thinking how in good omens, aziraphale partakes in the eating of human food, which other angels don't really do. and in the Job episode, aziraphale tries food for the first time and loves it. and how this is likely symbolic of aziraphale's sort of fraying from heaven just slightly.

and also the quotes of "all meals become a battlefield between temperance and temptation", and "food can seduce one into moral decadence and physiological death." and like, yeah the coffee theory. but also the fact that metratron tells aziraphale that he consumes human food makes aziraphale feel less like he has 'betrayed' heaven, that he isn't really a bad angel, and that he could still be a good angel. aziraphale had thought the food he consumed had him seduced in moral decadence.

crowley led him to temptation, and aziraphale let him. metratron allowed him temperance and aziraphale accepted it.

[i-love-the-smell-of-your-blood]

PCOS sucks because sometimes I will just start sweating and it won't stop because PCOS can cause menopause like symptoms and I was unlucky enough to get those.

So sometimes I show up to class no matter what the weather is looking like a sweaty mess and it's so frustrating

[holmesoldfellow]

"Dining with Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Cookbook" by Julia Carlson Rosenblatt and Frederic H. Sonnenschmidt (1976)

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

Ways I get fruits n veggies in me:

- putting oranges and peppers on the counter where it’s easy to snack on while I make other food

- buying frozen strawberries for cheap to make smoothies which are cold on a hot day

- buying 100% fruit juices or 100% fruit popsicles so I have cold juice to drink on a hot day

Ways I do not get fruits n veggies in me:

- buying frozen veggies I don’t really want to eat because I think they’re healthy

- buying fruits I don’t really like because I think they’re healthy

- buying fruits or veggies which require prep time to eat in a way I like

- getting upset at myself for not eating enough fruits n veggies

Notice how the ways I eat the fruits and veggies have a built in incentive to eat them?

- peppers n oranges on the counter are easy to eat and require no prep time. If I want a meal, or I’m just I the kitchen, they’re easy to grab and munch on.

- I get bored and distracted when I cook. Having something to do with my hands, like peeling an orange, keeps me busy while keeping me in the kitchen near my food. And then I peeled the orange so I might as well eat it.

- smoothies and cold juice/popsicles work because the weather is hot and I already want to cool down. The incentive exists naturally because I like how they taste and I’m already looking for something cold.

- smoothies/juice/popsicles also have a consistent texture, which unprocessed fruit and veggies do not have. Texture is a big driver of what I eat or don’t, so having a pleasant/consistent texture makes me more likely to choose something.

If u prep ur own food and are worried ur not eating enough fruits n veggies, it might be time to go through how you usually choose what to eat and what’s blocking the fruit and veggie choices. Usually there is something that makes the alternate choice you make more appealing (including not eating anything, that is a choice that you make too).

Does having to cut/peel an orange take too long, so you pick the easily openable chips? That’s great! You have chips! But if you want fruit too, maybe get something you can just pick up and eat, like an apple or pear.

Does having fresh veggies sound great, but they’re not warm and you’re already freezing, so you pick the warm tater tots you can make in the oven? That’s great! You have tater tots! But if you want veggies too, maybe make some warm vegetable soup, or get a microwave pack of steamed green beans or broccoli.

Do you feel like you want to add more vitamins to your diet, but you don’t like the taste of vegetables or fruit, so you just stare in the cabinet and then don’t pick anything? Get something that has what you need that tastes different. Maybe that’s a supplement (talk to your doctor first, those still can interact with other meds or general health), maybe that’s a protein bar you like, maybe it’s chopping veggies up real tiny and putting them in your pasta sauce. It’s okay if it’s not the most “economical” or “healthy” solution; if it results in you actually eating more of what you’re trying to eat, it’s worth it.

This applies to other foods too; I need more protein in my diet, so I buy protein bars and oven-bakeable orange chicken, even if there are “healthier” more protein dense foods. I don’t like kale or beans, eggs and I are frenemies, and steak (my beloved) takes a lot of time and attention to cook properly. I need to drink more water, so I buy powdered lemonade and sparkling water. Maybe you hate chicken and protein bars and sparkling water and lemonade. You’re not me. What do you like? What do you need? What makes your needs more likeable? Go buy/make/do that.

[foxcassius]

been so into albums in their whole entirety this whole year. probably because of jake owning a record player and buying me 2 records last year. i almost always listen to albums start to finish now instead of sticking to my 8 playlists of my favorite songs from my favorite artists. and its fun! im so into the stories told these days

[rimouskis]

missing the game tonight because I have been roped into a "team dinner" for one of the teams I serve on at work.

this motley crew includes:

a supervisor who talks about getting accepted to the raya dating app with her employees

an ex-military woman who scares me and probably doesn't like me but she's tragically my type (aka: straight, brunette + married)

a standoffish poet who seems to have beef with the supervisor

a gay creative who has recently departed for greener pastures (a corporate job)

a very nice young woman who I know nothing about aside from her cat's name but I think she may have a mormon past

me (god help us all)

[you-are-constance]

no one understands just how much im craving cheese and crackers right now

[dolores-slay]

The state of my period sustainability journey is currently that I might look into washable period underwear but I am NOT putting anything into myself again THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[dutybcrne]

I am a simple Allie: I see unhinged, I wanna put em with Taru or Kae