Restaurants in Great Falls

You're familiar with politicians, but do you know what they like to drink? If you buy today's Groupon, you just might find out. For $10, you get a $25 Groupon to Bullfeathers of Capitol Hill, a restaurant and bar that's been serving food and drink to state representatives since 1980 and Max Trews of Fairfax, Virginia, since 2005. Grab your part-time pundits and leisure-time lobbyists for a late-night bite or Saturday afternoon burger and beer. Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.

The word posh is believed to derive from the days of long sea voyages, when upper-class passengers would stamp the acronym P.O.S.H (Podiatrists Only Shall Handle) on their shoes when leaving them out to be shined. With today's Groupon, regain the glory days of refinement through a night of hip entertainment and dining at Posh Restaurant & Supper Club. For $15, you'll get $35 worth of ambrosial food and drink. Modeled after the jazz clubs and speakeasies of yesteryear (flapper yesteryear, not dinosaur yesteryear, which is way too scary), Posh combines all of life's necessities (good food, live entertainment, oxygen) under one roof. Stop by the chic lounge that Open Table diners call one of DC's Hot Spots and Vibrant Bar Scenes for a romantic dinner or a rousing night out with friends.

Brightwood's menu is packed to the gills with seafood and other classic items, crafted and dished out by an amiable staff. Warm up dormant appetites in the airy dining room, lined with large windows, by sampling esculent appetizers such as the sautéed shrimp and rice-noodle soup, which is served in thai lemon-grass broth with fresh veggies ($8), or jump right in with a po' boy sandwich, featuring remoulade sauce on crisp french bread, with a choice of chicken ($10), shrimp, oyster, or catfish ($12). Sample the house pride and joy with the crab-cake entree—jumbo lump crabmeat partnered with mashed potatoes and sautéed spinach ($24). If that still isn't enough, simply order the Brightwood burger, an Angus beef burger with red-pepper mayo ($12), and ask for it to be wrapped in a larger Angus beef burger.

Chadwicks' restaurant policy of only hiring men or women named Chadwick may be controversial, but it's also highly effective. Whenever there's a spill and one Chadwick yells, "Chadwick," every Chadwick comes running to mop it up. Instead of taking a single Chadwick 30 minutes to clean the area, it takes the 45 Chadwicks at Chadwicks just 20 minutes. This has helped Chadwicks become the preeminent pub in the DC area. If you're interested in employment opportunities at Chadwicks, make sure you are either named Chadwick or are willing to legally change your name to Chadwick; if you're only interested in a great deal on tasty food and drink at Chadwicks, keep reading about Chadwicks.

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Today's $10 Groupon gets you $20 worth of legal spirits in the Prohibition-themed 18th Amendment bar. Speakeasies were rollicking drinkeries where fans of booze joyously evaded prohibition laws, live music accompanied illicit fluids, and live fluids distracted everyone from noticing the illicit music. The backstair basement bar at 18th Amendment (named after the amendment that outlawed "intoxicating liquors") hearkens back to those sepia-toned days of men inconspicuously smuggling booze in oversized pants. The furniture is old whiskey boxes, beer barrels, and pews; stained glass, bar rails, and an iron-gated liquor room turn the spot (located at 613 Pennsylvania Ave., SE) into a gangster's getaway.