fine dining in NOVA..need to know asap
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Re: fine dining in NOVA..need to know asap
Yet another one....
You don't see any reason for a dress code? What about a smoking policy? Should screaming babies be allowed to run around the place? After all, we wouldn't want to turn away business, right?
The food is only one part of what sets places like these apart from Applebees, Olive Garden, Ruby Tuesdays, etc. It's also about the atmosphere that you may not be able to get elsewhere...
Do you want to get dressed up and take your significant other to eat a $100 steak and be seated next to a guy wearing cut off jean shorts, flip flips, and an unbuttoned flannel shirt? Do you? No. Don't you think that might ruin the vibe?
You don't see any reason for a dress code? What about a smoking policy? Should screaming babies be allowed to run around the place? After all, we wouldn't want to turn away business, right?
The food is only one part of what sets places like these apart from Applebees, Olive Garden, Ruby Tuesdays, etc. It's also about the atmosphere that you may not be able to get elsewhere...
Do you want to get dressed up and take your significant other to eat a $100 steak and be seated next to a guy wearing cut off jean shorts, flip flips, and an unbuttoned flannel shirt? Do you? No. Don't you think that might ruin the vibe?
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Re: fine dining in NOVA..need to know asap
There's been at least one restaurant so far that's been linked to that requires jacket and tie. No big deal though... It just establishes an elegant atmosphere.
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http://www.rtsrestaurant.net/Warehouse.htm
...then hit up the pier, then hit up DAT PUTANG..maybe even some ben and jerry's somewhere in between
...then hit up the pier, then hit up DAT PUTANG..maybe even some ben and jerry's somewhere in between
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Re: fine dining in NOVA..need to know asap
I went in in slacks, sport coat and button down. Still needed a tie.
Thank god the coat room has a large selection.
BUt to agree with you....if you go to a "nice" restaurant and you dress like a slob people will take notice.
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Re: fine dining in NOVA..need to know asap
The "chef's table" option is really neat because Michel Richard actually prepares everything in front of you . It was a 6-person minimum the last time I checked.
In NOVA, here are my suggestions:
-L'Auberge Chez Francois (Great Falls - Alsatian/French)
-Dante's (Reston - Italian)
-Colvin Run Tavern (Tyson's Area - "refined American")
-Maestro (Tysons Ritz Carlton - genre-less)
Colvin Run is Bob Kinkead's other place, if anyone knows what the hell that means, lol.
My favorite of these by far is L'Auberge, I've been going there for years.
None of these places, AFAIK, require jacket and tie. "fine dining" in the United States is almost exclusively business-casual these days, with very few exceptions.
I know this was an old-ass thread, but having a good restaurant rolodex in your head for occasions can't ever hurt.