Food Matters brings a fresh market sensibility to its all-you-can-eat Wednesday night pasta fest by offering a seasonal salad to complement as much of its three featured pastas (possibilities include noodles with toasted garlic, chiles and spring herbs and fregola with clams) as its customers can fork up for $18 per person; and if that deal isn’t enough to stimulate appetites, there are more than 20 bottles of wine priced at $25 or less (703-461-3663).
How low can you go, pricewise, for a glass of vino? On Sunday nights after 5 PM, Harry’s Tap Room is pairing inventive burgers with selected fine wines by the glass at about 50 percent less than their usual cost – that means discounts so deep that Virginia’s arcane ABC laws won’t let them advertise their prices until customers are in the restaurant (through July 8th; 703-778-7788).
Le Paradou, the luxe Penn Quarter French, is offering a three-course lunch ($32 per person) on weekdays, with some 12 appetizers and 10 entrees to choose from, and a three-course dinner ($39 per person), available until 7 PM in its elegant dining room and all evening in its bar/lounge, Monday through Thursday (202-347-6780).