Restaurants Added to B-CC Restaurant Week Lineup

Start planning your meals for Jan. 24 through Feb. 3 with this list of participating restaurants.

Bethesda-Chevy Chase Restaurant Week is almost here and eight restaurants have been added to the lineup since we first announced the participants list. Start planning your meals for Jan. 24 through Feb. 3 with this list of participating restaurants, found on the B-CC Restaurant Week website: Assaggi Mozzarella Bar Bezu Restaurant Black's Bar & Kitchen Brasserie Monte Carlo Capital Grille—Chevy Chase Freddy's Lobster & Clams Geppetto Restaurant Grapeseed Jaleo—Bethesda La Ferme Lebanese Taverna Le Vieux Logis Mon Ami Gabi Nest Cafe Normandie Farm Oakville Grille & Wine Bar Old Angler's Inn Passage To India Persimmon Restaurant RAKU—Bethesda Redwood Restaurant Tavira Restaurant Vino Volo Price points and addresses can be found here.  B-CC …

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Check Out the B-CC Restaurant Week Lineup

Organizers published the list of participating restaurants late Thursday morning.

Bethesda-Chevy Chase Restaurant Week is almost here. Start planning your meals for Jan. 24 through Feb. 3 with this list of participating restaurants, found on the B-CC Restaurant Week website: Assaggi Mozzarella Bar La Ferme Louisiana Kitchen & Bayou Bar Old Angler’s Inn Passage To India Black's Bar & Kitchen Brasserie Monte Carlo Mon Ami Gabi Persimmon Restaurant Capital Grille – Chevy Chase Nest Café RAKU – Bethesda Freddy’s Lobster & Clams Normandie Farm Tavira Restaurant Price points and addresses can be found here.  B-CC Restaurant Week diners will notice a few changes to the semi-annual event this year: more varied price points and a new sponsor. Meals begin at $12 or $16 for two courses at lunch. For dinner, customers can spend $22…

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Mmm...Mobile Cheesecake

This week's foodie news from around Montgomery County: mobile cheesecake, global burritos and a doughnut trend.

Get caught up with the food scene in Montgomery County and adjacent Washington, DC, neighborhoods with "1 Meat, 3 Sides." This week, mobile cheesecake takes center plate: One Meat: The region's celebrated food trucks are starting—finally—to branch out to Montgomery County. The latest one to venture north beyond Western and Eastern avenues is That Cheesecake Truck, the "Big Blue" purveyor of Sweetz Cheesecake of Gaithersburg. "Although Sweetz has had a shop and wholesale business in Gaithersburg since 1992, its mobile operation ... started rolling last summer," but only in DC, Carole Sugarman reported for Bethesda Magazine. “We really only started there because we felt there was more density," Sweetz owner Craig Barsi told Bethesda Magazine…

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Bethesda-Chevy Chase Restaurant Week: July 16-22

Dine well in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac and Glen Echo this week without breaking the bank.

Bethesda-Chevy Chase Restaurant Week starts Monday, July 16, and lasts through next Sunday, July 22. Participating restaurants will offer two- or three-course lunches for $13 or $16, and dinner for $33, according to the website of the Bethesda Urban Partnership. Participating restaurants in Bethesda include: Participating restaurants in Chevy Chase include: Participating restaurants in Potomac include: Participating restaurants in Glen Echo include: Which ones do you recommend? Tell us in the comments.

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1 Meat, 3 Sides: MD 'Crab Fakes,' Bacon Sundaes

This week, crab cakes take center plate, surrounded by news of a new lobster restaurant, bacon sundaes and a good showing by Montgomery County restaurants in a "most valuable restaurants" list.

Get caught up with the food scene in Montgomery County and adjacent Washington, DC, neighborhoods with "1 Meat, 3 Sides." This week, Maryland "crab fakes" take center plate: One Meat: What's behind our state's signature dish? Not a whole lot of home-grown muscle, it turns out. When it comes to Maryland crab cakes, "the little-known truth is that our region’s signature dish is rarely regional. More than 43 million pounds of crab meat are imported into Maryland each year, but the Maryland crab meat industry only produces about 700,000 pounds. That means less than 2 percent is from Maryland," Washington City Paper reported. "The rest [of the crab meat served in the state] is shipped in from Venezuela, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, …

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1 Meat, 3 Sides: Black Pearl Oysters, DIY Beer

This week, bivalves take center plate, surrounded by gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches and homemade soda and beer.

Get caught up with the food scene in Montgomery County and adjacent Washington, DC, neighborhoods with "1 Meat, 3 Sides." This week, bivalves take center plate: One Meat: Later this year, we'll have two new choices of bivalve protein: the Black Pearl and the Old Black Salts, which will be available at Bethesda's Black's Bar and Kitchen (7750 Woodmont Ave.), as well as at BlackSalt, Pearl Dive Oyster Palace and Black Jack in DC. Jeff Black, the restaurateur behind the four restaurants, hails from the Gulf Coast, whose oysters are known for their saltiness. The Black Pearl oysters will be grown by the Toby Island Bay Oysters, located in a fairly salty part of Chincoteague Bay on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. The Old Black Salts will be grown in …

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