Reliable Source's Cherry Blossom celebration starts today

With the cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin finally about to pop and the Cherry Blossom Festival in full swing, the National Press Club is adding its own celebration to Washington's annual floral extravaganza.

Starting today and running through April 12, the Club's popular Reliable Source restaurant is offering food and special drinks timed to the blossoms. It's one more reason to make the restaurant the place to go when you eat out.

At both lunch and dinner, the food is terrific and the prices reasonable. The most popular items, prepared fresh daily by Executive Chef Susan Delbert and her staff, remain the hot buffet and healthy choice salad bar. Both now include new choices.

If you order from the menu, you can choose from such items as the fried oyster Po’boy, parmesan chicken pasta, steak frites and world’s best reuben.

The “Hot of the Press” portion of the menu usually includes rack of lamb or New York strip steak, while “Off the Hook” selections include rock fish or salmon. Complement your food with a glass of wine, either the red NPC Cabernet Sauvignon pr the white NPC Chardonnay.

Celebrate spring with special Cherry Blossom Cosmopolitans cocktail.

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

And every Friday night from 5:30-7:30 p.m. the Reliable Source offers TGIF Taco Night.

Check with your server about “Reliable Drinks” at $7 each. They include Chocolate Lovers, Moscow Blue Moon, Appletini, Sex in the City, Raging Bull and Sunset Cosmos.