I love to hear about restaurants that have especially great food and that are near where I live. The Vinifera is located just around the block from my place in the Westin Hotel; and so when my colleague Janet Cochran suggested that Sheila Gold and I join her at Vinifera for lunch, since it was Restaurant Week in Reston, to do some liaison business after the eating part, I was delighted. My particular choices turned out to be outstanding with a beet and frisee salad, ravioli in a chopped tomato, garlic sauce and a dessert that included a sumptuous chocolate cake. Sheila and Janet chose the alternate choice, a chicken dish, which turned out to be just another chicken dish, but they said they really liked the mushroom soup starter and Sheila, who had a fancy baked apple thing, said it was good as well. The full menu is intriguing and we agreed that we would certainly return to pay the heftier prices that would prevail on non-Restaurant Week.
I checked with my son to see if he had eaten there and he said that he'd been there for drinks and munchies (must be those little bites that are listed on the menu) and our OLLI gourmet diner Eric Henderson said he and Carol had eaten there as well and enjoyed it. So this is especially for those of you from Reston; try it out as an alternative to the many good restaurants at the Town Center.
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