Dupont Italian Kitchen, Washington, D.C.

Our lodge officers had a meeting Friday night, but first we gathered at Dupont Italian Kitchen for cocktails and dinner before walking to the junior warden's condo just down the block for our actual meeting. I've been to Dupont Italian Kitchen before, and I thought their food Friday night was surprisingly good. We had quite a variety of things ordered. I only had a bowl of gazpacho soup, but here are some of the other entrées at the table.

It's an Italian place, so they have, naturally, lasagne and pizzas. One of the more interesting things was the chicken francaise, a chicken dish with garlic and lemon, and they also had a shrimp fettucine Alfredo (which was, interestingly enough, ordered by one of our Jewish brothers, and it was still Rosh Hashanah!). Some of the house specialities included a spaghetti with arugula and feta cheese and a tortellini cardinale (though I think they cheated, using just a little tomato paste for the redness, but no lobster!).

One of the other nice things about Dupont Italian Kitchen is that their cocktails are very inexpensive, with highball type drinks running only $3 each.