Fran and Dov arrived in Rockville early Friday night, and we went downtown for dinner at Fogo de Chão. Always a crowd-pleaser, the restaurant features a variety of roasted meats presented on skewers and carved tableside. Each guest uses a two-sided disk to control the pace of their meal. (The green side signals the chefs to bring out more food and the red side indicates a stopping point.) If you’ve never been, it is a unique and fun experience. The meats are cooked to varying levels of done-ness and we were all happily served cuts to our liking. No easy feat for this crowd.
fogo disks
In addition to the meat extravaganza going on around you, the restaurant also has an amazing salad bar and serves traditional side dishes of warm cheese bread, fried bananas, crispy polenta and seasoned mashed potatoes. Deeelish! Happy and full, we headed back to Maryland for a little more catching up.
Saturday was Valentines Day! In the morning, David’s parents went to temple and we ran a few errands. In the afternoon, Fran and Dov gave us a few cute things for Valentines day and some beautiful gifts from their recent trip to Israel. We got a Hamsa for our wall, David got a star and I got an amazing necklace made by Daniel Alsberg at Studio Alsberg in Jerusalem. Jerry really liked David’s stuffed valentines day monkey.
Jerry and his new pal
David the Peking Duck Expert (showing incredible patience as his wife takes a yet another picture while he is trying to eat)
Our ‘all time favorite places eating tour’ weekend continued at dinner that night at Mark’s Duck House in Falls Church on Saturday night and then brunch at Tower Oaks Clyde’s on Sunday. We eventually had to try something new – so for dinner on Sunday we went to Bacchus of Lebanon in Bethesda. No one knows appetizers better than the Lebanese –and their menu had three whole pages dedicated to them. We were joined by John, one of Dov’s friends from back in his Army days. It was fantastic to finally meet him and we had a very lovely evening.
all of us at dinner
Fran Dov and David
We rounded out the long weekend of eating and enjoyment with brunch on Monday at Houston’s. Then David went to the office and the Ehrlichs headed back north to Jersey
We spent lots of time with family, eating, enjoying and relaxing. Thanks for a very nice weekend- it was just want we needed!
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