Two restaurants along the Route 1 corridor — Momo Yakitori in Woodridge and Kapnos Taverna in College Park — are participating in the Metropolitan Washington Restaurant Week this year.
During the annual event, held Aug. 13-19, participating restaurants offer a special prix fixe menu for $22 for brunch and lunch and $35 for dinner.
At Momo Yakitori, you could try a dinner consisting of chilled sesame cucumber appetizer, seven skewers of yakitori and a chocolate toasted marshmallow, for example. (It only has a dinner menu listed for Restaurant Week.)
At Kapnos, meantime, you could try a four-course dinner with stuffed grape leaves, spanakopita, spit-roasted lamb and baklava for that price, as an example. (It also offers lunch and brunch menus, all of which they’ve extended for Restaurant Week through Aug. 26.)
Since New York City launched the first one in 1992 as a way to attract delegates attending that year’s Democratic national convention, Restaurant Week has been lauded as a way to drum up business in a slow time of year, a fun challenge for chefs crafting the menus and an opportunity to bring in new customers.
Other places along the Route 1 corridor could also look at participating in DC Restaurant Week including, Burton’s Grill and Bar, Old Maryland Grill, Busboys and Poets and the new College Park Grill, among others.
One thing that is clear is that in years past there would not have been many restaurants along the Route 1 corridor that would have even been able to join DC Restaurant Week.
