I had an event to attend Wednesday evening in Bethesda so I asked Lisa for recommendations.  All three of the places she mentioned looked on the upscale side for me, the ethnic dive guy, but one was next very close to the event.  So, I looked on Chef Tony’s website and say a happy hour special with 1/2 price tapas and glasses of wine until 6:30pm.  Turns out that the happy hour is actually until 7pm, and the tapas menu is outdated, but they do have 1/2 price appetizers and glasses of wine.

This turned out to be very good upscale food for about $4 a dish or glass of wine (I drank malbec).  Great deal.

I had the fillet mignon skewer appetizer size (which is not on the menu as an app), it was tender and flavorful and had really good homemade picked and plantains. My favorite dish that I had there. My friend raved about the plantains.

I also ordered the tomato and fresh mozzarella salad. Tony makes his own mozzarella and has someone who grows tomatoes for him.  The fig balsamic vinaigrette went with the cheese very well.

The crayfish egg rolls were good as well but I would have preferred that the cabbage was cooked through a bit more.

The mussels in bacon and cream sauce were good, and I had Justin (our waiter, who is awesome) bring me some grilled bread with it.

BTW, Chef Tony’s will have a Halloween party Thursday the 28th. Justin will be be playing…although I don’t know if its his band, or solo.

-JAY
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