A small group of urban restaurants are tucked in a pocket of high-end stores in the suburb of Tysons Corner. Among them is the Capital Grille, where meat and potatoes means fine dry-aged porterhouse cuts and delicious cream-based traditional mashed potatoes. Pair it with a selection off the list of more than 30 premium wines. Another don't-miss is the panfried calamari with hot cherry peppers....
There's a "campy", "old-school feel" (nonna and nonno "would have loved this place in 1950") to this fancy, candlelit Tysons Corner "staple" where "roaming" singers occasionally break into "arias" as "attentive" servers deliver "tasty" Southern Italian fare; regulars insist it has the "world's best veal chop", while the opera-adverse note the live performances are Friday and Saturday nights only.
At these "clubby" steakhouses oozing "sophistication" and "swagger", "toothsome" slabs of beef are matched with "phenomenal" wine by "snazzy"-looking servers who "remember who you are"; "you never know who you'll run into" ("members of Congress?") at Penn Quarter, though all locations are "fine incarnations" of the genre, so expect "prices that reflect the quality."
The Capital Grille Restaurant Review:
This elegant location sports the dark woods, handsome bar and upholstery that suggest an exclusive men’s club, except that everyone is welcome. Near the front door, pause to consider the refrigerated cuts of dry-aged beef behind glass --- this should work up your appetite for the restaurant’s famous, hefty cuts of steak, from the 20-ounce sirloin to the 24-ounce porterhouse. Starters include...