Restaurant Week, which runs through Sunday, August 18, is the best time to explore the city’s tasting menus and special-occasion dining rooms, and the deals are usually solid. (A $25 lunch at Del Mar?! Yes, please.)

1226 36th Street, NW

One of DC’s coolest retro restaurants, this Georgetown dining room has been around for over 60 years. The modern American Restaurant Week menu ($65 per person) offers plenty of choices without much extra: Wagyu tartare with black garlic aioli, a Southeast Asian take on New Bedford scallops, seared duck breast with pickled gooseberries, and Baked Alaska.

2941 Fairview Park Dr., Falls Church

Cross the koi pond and enter this high-ceilinged, glass-walled dining room, helmed by longtime chef Bertrand Chemel. His $65 dinner menu includes summery dishes like a tart with heritage tomatoes and smoked goat cheese, hamachi crudo with pickled wild garlic, risotto with blue crab, calamari and shrimp, and a blackberry eclair.

2132 Florida Ave., NW

Seasoned gourmet chef Frank Ruta (Palena, Mirabelle, The White House) pays attention to detail in this lovely dining room at Dupont. We never say no to one of Ruta’s soups, which during Restaurant Week includes chilled Athena melon with cucumber, watermelon and almonds. Other highlights of the $65 menu: crispy soft-shell crab with n’duja vinaigrette; grilled king prawns with purple potatoes; corn ravioli with lemon butter and an Aperol spritz float.

250 Massachusetts Ave., NW

Johnny Spero’s cool, Basque-inspired dining room in the Capital Crossing complex offers a $65 dinner menu. For starters, choose sliced ​​ham with potato chips or a tortilla espanola. Mains — arroz con pollo, a rib-eye steak rubbed with porcini and onion, or mushroom rice — are designed to share. For dessert, there’s strawberry granita with charcoal marshmallow or torrijas (Spanish-style French toast) with tonka bean ice cream. Add a wine pairing for $49 or a nonalcoholic pairing for $39.

1906 14th Street, NW

It’s restaurant month at Ryan Ratino’s quirky 14th Street dining room, which is offering a three-course meal for $65 and a five-course meal for $95 through September 1. Menus may change weekly, but current dishes include heirloom tomatoes with plums, feta and granola, diver scallops with sabayon and the brioche-stuffed chicken for which Ratino’s kitchen has become known.

724 Ninth St., NW

Pepe Moncayo’s dining room in Penn Quarter blends Spanish and Japanese flavors. His $35 lunch menu, for example, features bento-style flavors like shrimp escabeche, chicken katsu, and corn quinoa salad, to name a few. A four-course $65 menu features king salmon tataki, lamb with squash blossoms, and more. Wine pairings are an extra $35.

791 Wharf St., SW

Fabio Trabocchi’s glamorous Spanish restaurant in the Wharf has one of the better lunch deals we’ve seen: three courses for $25. Choose a peach and hazelnut salad with queso fresco, sea bass tartare with yuzu and almonds, a vegetarian paella for two, and churros or a Rocky Road sundae. There’s also a $35 brunch and a $65 dinner.

1280 Fourth St., NE

Not ready to shell out for one of the usual tasting menus (starting at $178) at this inventive Colombian dining room near Union Market? Try the $65 Restaurant Week menu, which features options like quail with sticky rice, yuca gnocchi with plantains, and the tree of life, one of the highlights of the regular dinner menu.

3050 K St., NW

This trendy Georgetown seafood restaurant sits right on the Potomac. Grab a table with a view and try the $25 weekday lunch menu and the $65 dinner menu—the latter of which includes peach gazpacho with lobster, Mediterranean sea bream with tomato confit and wine brodetto, and an apricot-nectarine crostata with goat cheese.

1401 Okie St., NE

A three-course prix fixe menu at this Ivy City tasting room — which normally costs $95 — is available for $65 through August 25. Chef Matt Baker is also offering a longer five-course tasting menu for $98, with offerings like poached sockeye salmon and roasted scallops.

804 V St., NW

Curious about this plant-based Latin American tasting room in Shaw? During Restaurant Week, they’re offering a $65 dinner menu that’s a bit cheaper than the typical $75 four-course meal. The menu includes plantain ceviche with mango and pumpkin seeds, as well as a version of hallaca, a traditional tamale-like Venezuelan dish. You can order a round of arepas to go with it for $21 (and you should).

927 F St., NW

Kevin Tien’s revamped modern Vietnamese restaurant – now in Penn Quarter – is one of the year’s most exciting newcomers. The $65 dinner menu starts with Parker House Rolls and then offers options like smoked trout rillettes with wonton crackers, a flatiron steak with marinated tomatoes and toast in beef fat, and shaved ice with summer melon and condensed milk foam.

931 H St., NW

Enrique Limardo’s Latin American restaurant, which moved from 14th Street to CityCenterDC last year, is participating in Restaurant Week for the first time. There’s a more casual lunch menu for $35, while there’s a $65 dinner version that includes halibut with jalapeño syrup and green coconut curry, guava cheesecake and more.

2404 Wisconsin Ave., NW

Danny Lledo’s Spanish special occasion spot in Glover Park is paring down its usual tasting menu to a $65 Restaurant Week version. Dishes include house-cured tuna loin with asparagus and egg yolk gel; hamachi and tuna belly with serrano peppers, apple and ash oil; and a paella with guinea fowl and rabbit. You can order the kitchen’s signature Iberico pork Wellington for $35, and wine pairings start at $45.