DC Restaurant Week: Summer 2011 Edition

Summer Restaurant Week (RW) is back in DC mid-August!:

• Learn more about DC's Restaurant Week
• Officially runs Aug 15 - 21. Some places will extend the deal beyond these dates)
• Lunch: $20.11 per person, Dinner: $35.11 per person

I'll be posting some of my favorites places to "best take-advantage" of the Restaurant Week promotion.

Some places are much better values (and frankly, more deserving of your dining dollars food quality-wise).

Tips for making RW reservations:

• Don't solely rely on OpenTable. I see a lot of folks make the mistake of checking for table availability on OpenTable & get discouraged (eliminate the restaurant as a possible choice) when they see no openings for their requested timeslot. Restaurants typically only provide OpenTable a limited # of seats to reserve via that method. There's often a decent chance that calling the restaurant directly will yield a possible opening.
  
• If available, choose a date outside of the actual RW period. There's a mad rush to make reservations for the actual week of the deal. Many restaurants extend the RW Deal pricing. I've had plenty of success of getting reservations if I choose a date outside of the official RW period.