Ross and I are determined to enjoy and take advantage of ‘city living’ while we are here. Last week was restaurant week in DC, and we took advantage. We decided last minute to find a restaurant and after looking at many menus decided to try Bistro Bis. Since we waited until the last minute, the only reservation we could get was at 5:45. Although it was early, we figured we would still enjoy the yummy meal.
Restaurant week means 3-course meals for $35.09. Some restaurants offer a very limited menu, but Bistro Bis offered almost their full menu (with a small upcharge for some of the more expensive menu items). Bistro Bis is a french bistro style restaurant in the Capitol Hill area of DC. Ross and I took advantage of our metro-accessible location and took the metro to Bistro Bis.
Starters:
I stared with the caramelized pear, endive, blue cheese salad. I would say the salad was okay – not enough blue cheese or pears for my tastes — and I learned that I don’t really care for endive.
Ross started with the mussel and liguica appetizer, in a sweet tomato broth. The serving size was huge — almost a whole meal in itself. He really enjoyed the mussels, the sausage and broth.
Main Course:
I had the sea scallops served over a cauliflower mousse. The scallops were huge and perfectly done – so yummy!
Ross has the pork belly served over polenta with a corn and butter bean salsa. He really enjoyed the pork belly.
Dessert:
Ross and I were in such a hurry to eat our yummy desserts that we forgot to take pictures. I had a lemon sponge cake with lemon mousse served with a blueberry sauce. Light and summery. Ross had an apple tarte Normandie – traditional French apple tarte — also very yummy.
Because it was restaurant week, and the restaurant was full of people who wouldn’t normally splurge on such a fancy restaurant — Ross and I decided to play tourist and take pictures of ourselves and the food. Hopefully we didn’t make too huge fools out of ourselves.
As we were finishing our main course, we ran into some of our friends at Bistro Bis — totally by coincidence. Ross’ friend Aaron and his girlfriend Jenni were seated next to us — they had also made reservations for Bistro Bis that night for restaurant week. It was fun running into them! Although, later Aaron texted Ross saying they got a free 1/2 bottle of wine…we were a bit jealous. Wonder how they managed that one.
Ross and I had a great time at restaurant week and will partake in it again in January.
