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76 Wisconsin Circle, Chevy Chase, Md.
(301) 951-9600
Hours of Operation and Prices
Lunch: M-Sat 11-4:30; Entrees: $6-$12
Dinner: Sun-M 4:30-11, T-Th 4:30-midnight, F-Sat 4:30-12:30 am; Entrees: $7-$19
Other Information
• All major credit cards
• Reservations recommended
• Dress: casual
• Validated parking
• Nearest Metro: Friendship Heights
• Handicapped accessible
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It's the Orient Express. It's the Indy 500. It's the Air and Space Museum. It's Clyde's Of Chevy Chase. Surely this is the largest Washington restaurant investment since Red Sage, an extravaganza complete with a model train circling overhead and a reproduction of an Orient Express parlor car as your booth. These aren't second-rate imitations but luxurious replicas, with glove-soft leathers and inlaid woods.
Downstairs the menu is more casual and pizzas are available, as is a gigantic bar. Upstairs isn't exactly formal, but the dining room is conversation-friendly - bustling but not noisy. The menu offers every indulgence. Vegetarians are wooed with curry, couscous and a melange of lentils, brown rice and pasta. Meat eaters will find rotisserie duck and chicken as well as steaks in three sizes, while seafood fanciers can have their rockfish wild, their mahi mahi with tropical fruits and their shellfish Thai-style. Most of the menu reads better than it tastes, and you'd be safest ordering one of the justly famous Clyde's hamburgers. Another hint: The kitchen copes better with fish than with meat.
It's all probably a plan to allow room for dessert. You can leave happy if you finish your meal with the chocolate bread pudding, warm and sufficiently bittersweet, with ice cream and whipped cream melting over it. And cappuccino custard mousse cake is adorable, constructed as a coffee cup with a cookie handle.
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