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If you need ideas of where to go for the DC Winter Restaurant Week, here’s a good one: Acadiana.
Acadiana’s food has a Creole and Cajun flair, with a seafood-heavy menu and a modern take on comfort food. For example, the biscuits came with salted butter drowned in a sweet Thai chili sauce — it was weird, but it worked, and fit right into the Cajun-fusion spirit of the restaurant.
The “grillades and grits” — a dish of veal medallions and jalapeno and cheese grits smothered in mushroom pan gravy — was unbelievably good. The grits were so creamy it almost tasted like buttery mashed potatoes, and you’ll have to restrain yourself to lick the remnants of the pan gravy off of your plate. The blackened tuna was fine, except for the stuff on the side, which was either way too salty or way too spicy, so it was a bit hellish to maneuver around the plate.
If you’re feeling adventurous, order the turtle soup, which is made of real turtle, like the actual reptile. You couldn’t pick up the taste of meat in the soup at all, which is kind of scary when you think about it cuz it could have been anything, you know?
Order the warm apple-raisin, butter-drenched bread pudding if you can — it comes with ice cream and a very sinful dulce de leche sauce.
Also, the service was fantastic. For you poor folks out there who don’t eat out at fancy restaurants often, the servers were very good about explaining what sauces go on what and how to order a complementary wines wine and such.
Acadiana, 901 New York Ave NW # 200A, Washington, DC 20001, (202) 408-8848.
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“For you poor folks out there who don’t eat out at fancy restaurants often, the servers were very good about explaining what sauces go on what and how to order a complimentary wine and such.”
Six bucks for a side of beans and rice. We poors will stick with our gruel.
I’ll stick with KFC bowls and 2.00 steak and fries at XTC Cabaret.
The pan crisped roasted duck is orgasmically delicious - and it’s one of the best RW weeks around. If you aren’t a remorseless eating machine (like me) and don’t eat the whole 1/2 duck in one sitting, you could easily get 1-2 additional meals out of it.
two words: charbroiled oysters
Buttars-drenched? Whoever had today in the Utah State Senator Buttsecks Pool, you are a winner!
Pretty sure you meant “complementary wines.” If not, I’ll be parked at Acadiana all month. Because I’m a poor.
OMG, call CSI, there’s a bloody handprint at the bottom of the plate.
What the hell does “Removal Requested” mean on the Google Map bubble? Did they already find out Wonkette is onto the place. They’ll lose a star for sure!
I’m still getting used to teh Wonkettes running articles containing phrases like “very sinful dulce de leche sauce”. We want MOAR sex scandals!
I went to Acadiana for New Year’s Eve and egad that bread pudding is painfully buttery…my aorta hurt for days
Rukasu: but was a great meal overall, I highly approve