|
|
|
Embassy Row Hotel
2015 Massachusetts Ave. NW
(202) 939-4250
Hours of Operation and Prices
Breakfast: M-F 6:30-10, Sat-Sun 7-10:30; Entrees $5-$11
Lunch: Daily 11:30-3; Entrees: $7.50-$13.75
Dinner: Daily 6-10; Entrees: $12-$21
Other Information
• All major credit cards
• Reservations recommended
• Dress: casual
• Validated parking
• Nearest Metro: Dupont Circle
• Entertainment: Pianist M-Sat at dinner
• Handicapped accessible
|
If you're looking for an expense-account environment and serious food at pin-money prices, lunch at Bistro 2015 in the Embassy Row Hotel is where you'll find it. Chef Jim Papovich used to cook at some of the most expensive restaurants in town (including Bistro 2015 when it was called Lucie), but now he offers his sophisticated, inventive New American food at discount prices. You can even design your own three-course, fixed-price lunch.
Even a modestly priced lunch can include such inventive appetizers as a salad of red snapper with pine nuts, lettuce and raspberry. Soups are also luxurious: wild mushroom with pesto or lobster with red pepper. Fish entrees are elaborate and luscious, particularly rockfish with creamed and fried leeks. Vegetarians - or anyone with a large appetite - will marvel at the mound of lemon-spiked pasta
surrounded by such glamorous marinated vegetables as leeks, wild mushrooms and roasted peppers.
This hotel dining room isn't exactly charming, but it is spacious, furnished with comfortable striped banquettes and tables large enough for spreading out papers. Privacy and quiet are rare assets downtown. And there's a covered terrace for dining outdoors. In summers Papovich uses the hotel's outdoor spaces for cookouts.
© Copyright 1998 The Washington Post Company
Back to the top |
