Restaurants in Rockville

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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Sushiko, the first sushi shack in the D.C. area, serves a full menu of maki, salads, and sashimi based on a minimalistic approach, ensuring each ingredient's flavor naturally shines through. Start with a bowl of wild-mushroom soup ($6.50), or a ginger-dressed sushi-ko salad ($6). Maki offerings, served in six pieces or temaki cone, are a treasure trove of sea meat. Try the crunchy shrimp with fish roe, shrimp, scallions, mayo, and tempura batter ($5), or the rainbow roll with salmon, shrimp, white fish, cucumber, avocado, and tuna ($12.50). Small dishes such as the honey-soy roasted duck breast ($9.50), and seared lobster with forest mushrooms, spinach, and creamy ponzu ($11), appease the anti-rawist and stand tall amid the simple, modern interior. For entree-like eats, order an entree, such as the roasted Maine salmon sided with sweet potato and sautéed mushrooms ($16.50), or beef-tenderloin tataki doused with red-wine daikon butter ($20). Call ahead to schedule a reservation.

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.

Be the first to bathe your tongue in a rare brew named after a mythical giant. The beer is as mythical as its namesake because it comes in a bottomless mug and with unlimited food and drink for $70 at Brasserie Beck with this Groupon ($100 value).