CAPITOL HILL: Ambar Balkan Restaurant Menu for Summer Restaurant Week - August 15 - 28

Ambar, DC’s first Balkan restaurant, is offering guests the opportunity to experience some of the best traditional dishes from the Balkan Peninsula, prepared with a modern twist for Restaurant Week, August 15-28.

For lunch, guests can order a Chef’s Platter priced at $22 per person (tax and gratuity not included), which includes a sampling of ;

• Veal Soup with root vegetables and crème fraîche
• Balkan Salad with tomato, pepper, cucumber, onion and aged cow cheese
• Cheese Pie with crispy phyllo, cucumber yogurt and roasted red pepper sauce
• Balkan Kebab, beef & pork with marinated onion and kajmak
• Stuffed Sour Cabbage with potato mash, pork belly, rice and yogurt
• Three Chocolate Cake with milk chocolate, white chocolate, dark chocolate, mascarpone and strawberry yogurt. 

Ambar’s popular lunch menu also offers Restaurant-goers a choice of any two sandwiches off the featured lunch menu, a choice of Veal Soup or Zucchini Soup, Three Chocolate Cake and a glass of house wine, a beer or Ambar signature freshly-squeezed lemonade infused with rosemary or mixed berry lemonade for only $22.  The open face sandwiches, soups and salads provide the calorie count of the dish so one can be watchful at lunchtime.  Sandwich options include; 

• Vienna Schnitzel Sandwich with crispy veal, ajvar emulsion, frisee salad, tartar sauce and sun dried tomatoes
• Creamy Chicken Salad Sandwich with ajvar emulsion, spinach, lemon vinaigrette and a celery stalk
• Marinated Shrimp with ajvar spread, arugula, lemon vinaigrette and blue cheese;  
• Smoked Trout with beet carpaccio, cucumber, dill, mayo and mayo pickled jalapeño
• Wild Forest Mushroom, with herb roasted mushrooms, baby arugula, horseradish dressing, hardboiled quail egg and red onion 
• Crispy Cheese of smoked gouda, organic slaw and a tartar sauce ajvar emulsion.

For dinner, guests will enjoy unlimited small plates from Ambar's featured menu including meat mezze, kajmak bar, spreads, homemade pies, flatbreads, soups and salads, vegetables, meats and poultry, sausages and seafood priced at $35 per person (tax and gratuity not included).  Standout dishes include; 

• Spicy Crab with ajvar, cilantro pickled chilies
• Urnebes, aged cow cheese with ajvar and chili flakes
• Meat Pie with crispy phyllo, yogurt and garlic yogurt
• Mushroom Pizza with shitake, crimini, button and oyster mushrooms, arugula and cheese
• Balkan Salad with tomato, pepper, cucumber, onion and aged cow cheese
• Cabbage Casuela with braised cabbage, dry pepper and yogurt and somun
• Leek Croquette with an ajvar emulsion and panko crust
• Lamb And Veal Kebab with spicy ajvar sauce and pickled jalapeño
• Slow Cooked Pork with Yukon potato smash and cabbage slaw
• Grilled Calamari With Gremolata with fresh herbs, diced pepper and lemon
• Mediterranean Branzino with tomato, garlic, spinach and baked tomatoes.  

For the perfect pairing, guests can enjoy bottomless drinks for an additional $14 per person.  Featured beverages include Sarajevo Old Fashioned, Mojito, Pomegranate Collins, Mango Lemonade, Margarita, House Sparkling Wine, House Red and White Wine, Yuengling, and BIP Belgrade.

Ambar is open for lunch Monday through Friday, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.  Dinner is served Sunday through Thursday, from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m.

For more information, call (202) 813-3039 or visit http://www.ambarrestaurant.com/.

 Ambar is located at 523 8th Street, SE