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It's Restaurant Week here in DC, which means that lots of really good (and expensive restaurants) are opening their doors to the unwashed masses, offering $20.05 three-course lunches (dinners) and $30.05 three-course dinners (suppers). This is my favorite time of year (they do it once each summer and once each winter), and a rare opportunity for me to convince friends that they should tuck a shirt in and meet me at one of the many classy joints whose menu I've never sampled.

( Click on to read my reviews so far )

Tonight I'm going to Tosca Ristorante, one of DC's very best Italian restaurants. I've been there once before, for lunch, and really enjoyed it, so I'm excited to wrap up Restaurant Week here. My tentative plan:

• First Course: Insalata di ruchetta con scaglie di Parmigiano e olio di frantoio al limone
  Baby arugola salad with shaved parmesan cheese and extra virgin-lemon oil
• Main Course: Costine di maiale brasate con purea di patate all'aglio, biete all'agro e salsa di spugnole
  Slowly cooked pork ribs (off the bone) with roasted garlic potato puree, sautéed Swiss chard and morel mushroom sauce
• Dessert: Granita all'anguria
  Organic watermelon granita - Italian ice

Should be good.

There's this goofy In-N-Out-type burger joint in Madison Square Park (in NYC). It's called the Shake Shack, and it's pretty great. Last time I was in New York, I went there with a couple friends of mine, and had a decent burger and a great butterscotch shake.

I am writing about it because apparently they went way above and beyond the call of duty when they gave a customer erroneous information about their hours.

For more info on the Shake Shack, check that link--there are a bunch of what seem to be well-researched links to be found there.

Just for the record, I've yet to find a relatively cheap burger joint that comes close to In-N-Out. It's a Southern California institution for a reason (and that reason is not the scripture they print on the bottom of their soda cups).

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Anyway, once you're finished enjoying that go to the main page and search for Saved By the Bell reviews. Oh, hell. I'll do it for you. Of special note: these great episode reviews. Oh, and the drinking game.