Restaurant Week- Washington, DC

In case you weren't aware, DC's restaurant week kicked off this past week. It's advertised as:

Join us this February when nearly 180 of metropolitan Washington, DC's finest restaurants offer awe-inspiring, multi-course meals prepared especially for this gourmet event.

Destination DC and the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington are proud to present the 14th Washington, DC Restaurant Week from February 16-22.

Lunch: $20.09 for a three-course fixed-price meal
Dinner: $35.09 for a three-course fixed-price meal

Because I'm not refined in any way, shape, or form, I had no idea that restaurant week was going on. BUT, my roommate did, and he had the foresight to make reservations at VIDALIA for four of us.

Anyway, the day of our reservation, I was SLAMMED at work and basically did not have time to eat through most of the day. "No big deal," I said to myself, "I'm going to restaurant week tonight! They're going to have so much food for me that I'm going to explode!"

Well, this was my "awe-inspiring" $35.09 meal:



What you see above is a decadent meal of flounder. And I hate to say it, but the way it appears on your screen (if about 17"), is actual size. This piece of shit was about 2 square inches large. Of course, they probably realized that people would not be satisfied with the portion of flounder, which is OBVIOUSLY why they complimented it with the ONE piece of asparagus. The other crap you see on the plate is a mixture of different splashes of sauces, because at a fancy restaurant, making an abstract work of art on your plate is just as important as fucking your customer on the portion-size.

Now to be fair, prior to the flounder, they did give an appetizer. I chose the snapper to be mine, but it too was two incredibly small sushi-like pieces of fish. Pathetic.

Overall, the food was good, but there was too damn little of it to make this even a remotely enjoyable experience! The whole time I was there, I was thinking about what I was going to eat as soon as I got home. In case your wondering, we stopped at 7-11 on the way back and I got taquitos.

I learned my lesson though. I should never pretend to be refined, or attempt to fit in with the fancy crowd in this city because it is all (that's right, I said 'ALL' because I am jumping to one huge conclusion off of one bad experience- it's my blog and I can do what I want) one big scam. There is no way that anybody dining at Vidalia will get more enjoyment out of there $35, .07 lb meal than I will out of a $10 Papa Johns pizza.