You guys know how much I love José Andrés and Zaytinya. Another excuse to get out to eat tapas? Like I need one. But if you do, here’s one: They have a new Easter menu coming out that sounds amazing.

The Details:

Dates: April 8th through April 22nd

Menu: A variety of spring lamb dishes, the return of the lamb sandwich cart and Easter cookies. Two spring cocktails created especially for the festival.

The Sandwich Cart: The cart will be on the restaurant’s outdoor patio, Monday thru Friday, from 12 p.m. until sandwiches  are sold out. $11 sandwiches will feature spit-roasted lamb served on oven-fresh pita, with tzatziki and pickled onions.

The Cookies: Greek Easter cookies will be available to-go or to eat with your sandwich. Priced at $5 for a mixed assortment,  including Paximadakia, (a Greek biscotti-type cookie flavored with citrus zest); Pastoules Amygthalotes, (traditional almond cookies); Melamokarina, (spiced walnut cookie soaked in honey syrup); and Kourabiedes, (crescent shaped cookies made with pine nuts and Metaxa).

The Drinks: The Attica, a combination of Plymouth gin infused with rose buds, lemon juice, house-made grenadine and garnished with Retsina air. Also featured is the Anastasis created with Beefeater gin, Cocchi Americano, kumquat liqueur and lemon juice. 

Chefs Experience Menu

two people, ten courses $99 (excluding tax and gratuity)

Mayiritsa

traditional lamb avgolemono broth, short grained rice, caramelized onions, lamb’s liver

Asparagus Salata

white asparagus tzatziki, pistachios, green asparagus, lemon zest

Greek Easter Maroulosalata

green and red tango lettuce, caramelized myzithra cheese, ladolemono, flowers

Glossa

thinly sliced lamb’s tongue, potato skordalia, green olives, pickled red chilis, celery, candied pistachios

Spanakorizo

rice pilaf with wilted spinach and tomato, spinach puree, feta cheese, preserved cherry tomatoes

Bizeli me Yiaourti

english peas, garlic yogurt, pistachios, micro lemon mint

Arni me Sparangia

lamb shoulder, asparagus, ladolemono, dill

Loukaniko me Patates

traditional house made lamb sausage scented with orange and cumin, potato, garlic

Greek Easter Lamb Kleftico

spit roasted lamb, kefalograviera cheese, english pea skordalia, feta, dill

Dessert

Tsoureki Bread Pudding

Mascerated strawberries, candied almonds, orange flower ice cream

Visit Zaytinya at:

701 9th Street NW

Washington DC 20001

202.638.0800

Enjoy!

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For our Spanish party, we featured three very snack-able Spanish tapas. Word on the street is that tapas were created to prevent a fly problem. At the local bar, bartenders placed a piece of bread over the patrons’ glasses of wine to keep the flies away. And they ate it. Not quite sure why you’d eat a piece of bread that had flies resting on the top, but whatever. Over time, supposedly, it became a norm, and the little bar snacks were expected. In Spain today, you can always get some tapas with your wine at any Spanish bar. So we took inspiration from that, and created some snacks for our guests.

Spanish Olives

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