Meat Lovers, Mark Your Calendars: Range Opens Dec. 18

Celebrity chef Bryan Voltaggio's new restaurant, Range, is sure to please meat lovers and vegetarians alike with its extensive menu and open kitchen.

Gourmands and meat lovers, rejoice. Range—celebrity chef Bryan Voltaggio's newest restaurant—is set to open in the newly renovated Chevy Chase Pavilion Dec. 18. Range's menu is meat-centric, offering menu items such as potted foie gras, rabbit, scrapple, pork shanks and cheeks, beef marrow bones, veal heart, veal sweetbreads and whole roasted rabbit, "hunter style." Shellfish options include oysters, shrimp, crabs and lobster. Fish dishes include rockfish and black cod with barbecued hazelnuts. But the less adventurous needn't worry. The menu has some more familiar-sounding options, too, like beef steak, pork loin chop and roasted chicken with lemon, garlic and rosemary. Much of the meat is locally sourced and butchered at the restaurant, …

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Top Chef to Offer 'Small Plates' for Cigar Lovers

Civil Lounge in the Chevy Chase Pavilion will feature cigars and spirits and will boast small plates from the kitch of Bryan Voltaggio's Range next door.

Wisconsin Avenue Cleared After Cyclist Struck by Car

The cyclist was transported to an area hospital.

The 5300 block of Wisconsin Avenue was closed Friday morning and traffic was diverted to Western Avenue after a car struck a cyclist before 8 a.m. A male cyclist was transported to an area hospital in an unknown condition, according to ABC7. Wisconsin Avenue reopened to traffic just after 8 a.m. according to the D.C. police department Twitter account.

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Shaun Courtney

3:12 pm on Monday, October 1, 2012

To the cyclist struck Friday: Patch has been contacted by a reader who witnessed the accident and flagged down a police officer to assist you. The reader would like to be helpful to you if you need information for insurance or police reports. Email me, Shaun Courtney shaun@patch.com, or call 202-210-9853 and I can pass along the contact info for this witness. -Shaun   more ›