Out to dinner night.
It's restaurant week in Bethesda and so we decided to bend the rules about only eating out at places within walking distance. We also broke the rule about not going to the same place twice. We went to Redwood in Bethesda (where Michael had the fabled scallop dish that he talked about for weeks afterward). We ordered from their Restaurant Week Menu. For starters, I had the tomato salad (who knew that watermelon and tomatoes would taste so good together?), while Michael ordered the Arugula and Beet Salad. Michael described his salad as "earthy", which I interpreted as meaning that it tasted like dirt.
For our entrees, I ordered the chicken with macaroni and cheese while Michael ordered the market fish, which turned out to be steel head trout. My entree was amazing -- the mac and cheese is on their regular menu as a side and I'm going to have to go back there again just to have it. It was absolutely amazing. Michael enjoyed his fish dish and I tasted a tiny bit of it and it seemed okay. (I'm not a huge fan of fish). For desert, we ordered the chocolate pudding cake (me) and the almond cake (Michael). We received the chocolate pudding cake (me) and the sorbet of the day (Michael). Since our waitress seemed pretty busy, we decided not to bring the mistake to her attention. The sorbet was cantaloupe seasoned with tarragon and it wasn't so good. Michael was pretty luck that I wasn't so hungry after devouring my mac and cheese and chicken, so he ate most of my dessert, which was really, really, really good. All in all, Redwood is an excellent place and I hope that we'll make another exception to our self imposed rules of dining out to go back there again soon.
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