PENN QTR: 701 Restaurant’s Restaurant Week Menu will be Available From August 15-28

For Summer Restaurant Week, 701 Restaurant, Executive Chef Benjamin Lambert will offer a special featured three-course menu during lunch and dinner service.
Highlights include  

• Heirloom Tomato Salad with burrata, wasabi caviar and a honey yozu vinaigrette
• Corn Soup with corn bread streusel, bacon and chili lime sorbet
• Tuna Tartare with sushi rice ice cream, ponzu and wasabi oil 
  
• Gnocchi with duck ragout, goat cheese and black olives
• Compressed Watermelon Salad with whipped feta, red beet- muhammara and Anaheim chilies Grilled Peaches with goat cheese, peach gazpacho, scallion and hazelnut
• Cauliflower Shawarma with hummus, golden raisin, tomato and lavash
• Salmon with shiitake, clams, chive blossoms and coconut broth;  
• Skate Wing with cucumber salad and XO sauce
• Chitarra Pasta with rabbit sausage, mustard, arugula and pickled peaches
• Roast Pork Loin with couscous, apricot, summer squash and tomato sauce. 

Photo: Greg Powers

For dessert, guests can enjoy tempting choices such as  

• Elderflower Parfait with peaches, coconut and almond streusel
• Corn Cremeux with blueberries, yogurt streusel and Champagne
• Molten Chocolate Cake with salted caramel and vanilla ice cream

701 Restaurant’s Restaurant Week menu will be available from August 15-28.  Lunch is served Monday through Friday, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., and dinner is served Monday and Tuesday, from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday, from 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Friday, from 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday, from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., and Sunday, from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. 

 For more information or to make a reservation, call (202) 393-0701 or visit www.701restaurant.com.