Reliable Source new menu items catching on

The National Press Club's Reliable Source restaurant has a new menu with new choices for lunch and dinner.

New items are prepared fresh daily by Executive Chef Susan Delbert and her staff, available at the hot buffet and salad bar.

New menu items include a spinach salad with chicken or roasted portabella, steak salad, coconut chicken fingers, crab cake platter, roast beef sandwich, creole shrimp and cheesy grits, pasta with Bolognese meat sauce or a vegan marinara sauce, and a Greek-style oregano grilled chicken breast

And on the dinner menu: avocado toast with smoked salmon, steak salad, colossal seared scallops, Doro wat: slightly spicy Ethiopian chicken stew, Creole shrimp and cheesy grits, Grilled certified Angus veal, bone-in porterhouse or boneless tenderloin, and Spaghetti Bolognese meat sauce or vegan marinara.

The “Hot off the Press” portion now usually will include rack of lamb or seared duck, while “Off the Hook” selections will include Atlantic cod, salmon, mahi-mahi, and rockfish.

Members also are invited to join the Reliable Source’s Happy Hour from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, when prices are reduced on house wines, beers and rail drinks.

Every Friday night from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. is Taco Night.

Check with your server about the “Reliable Drinks” at $10 each. They include Chocolate Lovers, Moscow Blue Moon, Appletini, Sex in the City, Manhattan, 14th & F Daiquiri, Tom Collins, Negroni, Irish Coffee, Grand Sidecar and Southern Reporter.

To make reservations, please contact the restaurant at 202-662-7443 or by email at [email protected].