01/27/11
The weekend always appeals for unity.
PERK ALERT
30% Off Your Super Bowl Salsa
This is it. The big showdown—the one between your chips and your salsa. So Perks is setting you up with
30% off six
chip-enhancing salsas from the Brooklyn Salsa Company. Imagine what a little curry salsa could do for
your guac...
- 411:
- The Brooklyn Salsa Company, spice up your Super Bowl here
WITCHING HOUR
Midnight Films at E Street
Just because your dates generally go late into the night doesn’t mean dinner and a movie is off-limits.
From now until March, E Street screens movies every weekend at midnight. This week, it’s The
Room, a contender for “best worst movie of all time.” Following weeks will bring Easy
Rider and Rocky Horror.
- 411:
- Fri-Sat through Mar 12, midnight, E Street Cinema, 555 11th St NW, 202-452-7672
OFF THE BOOKS
An Under-the-Radar Farmers’ Market
Think of this as a farmers’ market with fewer rules. And more drinks. A gaggle of vendors are assembling
at Kushi (which will helpfully have its bar open) to hawk stuff like gourmet pickles, BBQ, cupcakes, sweet
potato butter, ginger beer and something called Holy Hell Pepper Sauce.
WEEK SAUCE
Half a Fortnight of Smoked Meat
Sometimes the weekend just isn’t long enough for all the smoked meat you’d like to consume. Enter Meat
Week, here again
with seven days of Super Bowl pregame at area BBQ joints like
American Ice Co., Capital Q and Mr. P’s Ribs, who holds court at a Safeway parking lot. So you can
stock up on napkins, too.
- 411:
- Meat Week, Jan 30-Feb 5, various locations, more info here
GUT SHOT
Beer Belly Dinner at Birch & Barley
Not since you saw Kelly LeBrock in Weird Science have you been as fascinated with bellies as you
will be on Monday, when the beer temple serves up five courses of bellies, from crudo of tuna belly to pasta
with goat belly ragout. You’ll have beer paired to each course. Then you’ll wear a bra on your head.
- 411:
- Jan 31, 7pm, $76, Birch & Barley, 1337 14th St NW, reserve at 202-567-2576
TWO-FER
Beer and a Dog at Bourbon Steak
It’s two months until Nationals opening day. Until then, tide yourself over with this beer-and-dog deal: a
half-smoke from Red Apron Butchery (dressed with chili and cheddar cheese or sauerkraut and ketchup onions)
and a can of Moo Thunder Stout. Feel free to bring your scorebook anyway.
- 411:
- February at the bar, $7, Bourbon Steak, 2800 Pennsylvania Ave NW, 202-944-2026
Only what you need to know.