Wednesday, January 16, 2013
One day after Bethesda-Chevy Chase Restaurant Week ends, Metropolitan Washington Restaurant Week begins.
Restaurant weeks begin soon, so it's time to start making reservations at the Chevy Chase restaurants you've always wanted to try, but whose menus are on the steeper side. Bethesda-Chevy Chase Restaurant Week runs from Thursday, Jan. 24, through Sunday, Feb. 3. Lunch prices range from $12 to $16, and dinner prices run from $22 to $33. Participating Chevy Chase restaurants include: See the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Restaurant Week website for the full list of participating restaurants—many of which are in downtown Bethesda. One day after Bethesda-Chevy Chase Restaurant Week ends, Metropolitan Washington Restaurant Week begins—it starts on Monday, Feb. 4, and runs through Sunday, Feb. 10. The price of a three-course lunch is $20.13, and the price…
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The chef behind Friendship Heights' Lia's restaurant is headed north in January.
Chef Geoff Tracy—owner and mastermind behind six Washington, DC-area restaurants, including Lia's in Friendship Heights—is moving to New York City. But, Lia's fans are not to worry—the restaurant will continue to operate, serving its "alluring combination of Tuscan warmth and Milanese chic"—as the restaurant's website describes its menu—to Friendship Heights diners. Tracy's wife, Norah O'Donnell, recently accepted a new job as co-host of CBS This Morning, a morning news show the network started earlier this year to replace its "perennially last place morning show, then called The Early Show," The New York Times reported. Tracy, who has lived in the Washington area since 1991, told Washington City Paper that this was "an opportunity that as…
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Take an up-close look at restaurant life with Chef Geoff of Lia's in Chevy Chase.
Sporting his "Chef Geoff's" baseball cap and polo, the affable Chef Geoff Tracy takes a moment out of his busy schedule—overseeing five restaurants in the nation's capital area—to talk about the culinary life, taking risks, and why he loves owning a restaurant in Chevy Chase. From the dining room of Lia's, his third restaurant, which opened in 2006, Tracy describes his idea to create a chef-driven neighborhood restaurant, which serves fresh pasta made in-house daily, along with other Italian staples: roasted garlic-ricotta raviolis, saffron risotto and lasagna. This Georgetown University graduate, father of three, and husband of Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News Norah O'Donnell, whom he met in college, dishes about owning a…
