washingtonpost.com: La Ferme

Hours of Operation and Prices Lunch: T-F noon-2; Entrees: $5.75-$10.75Dinner: T-Sat 6-10, Sun 5-9; Entrees: $15.75-$20.75Closed: Mon. Other Information Reservations recommended All major credit cards Dress: casual Free prking lot Entertainment: Evening pianist Handicapped Accessible

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|7101 Brookville Rd., Chevy Chase, Md.
(301) 986-5255

Hours of Operation and Prices
Lunch: T-F noon-2; Entrees: $5.75-$10.75
Dinner: T-Sat 6-10, Sun 5-9; Entrees: $15.75-$20.75
Closed: Mon.

Other Information
• Reservations recommended
• All major credit cards
• Dress: casual
• Free prking lot
• Entertainment: Evening pianist
• Handicapped Accessible

When you want to get out of town but not too far, La Ferme fills the bill. Even though it's on the edge of the city, it's a spacious, slightly countrified, comfortable and dignified dining room with a vine-covered terrace, in a quiet spot along Chevy Chase's pretty Brookville Road. And it's immensely popular for leisurely suburban lunches. The service is polished and the food is sedately French. Here's a place to take a visiting aunt or to have a family reunion. It has something for everyone, plenty of panache, and moderate prices for its level of luxury.

You can count on La Ferme for gently grilled, absolutely fresh fish -say, swordfish or Dover sole. Along with the expected meat offerings, it also lists venison and chateaubriand. Its veal is sauced with calvados and mushroom cream, its duck with cider and turnips, its liver with port wine and truffles. And the plates are garnished with a colorful bouquet of vegetables - though they are sometimes less luscious than picturesque. La Ferme serves the classics - onion soup, lobster bisque, even a refined variation of bouillabaisse. And it ventures tentatively into new tastes, creating a deliciously rich lunchtime pasta with duck confit and a touch of Southwestern chili heat.

Even so, there are no bold breakthroughs here. This is nice food, considerately served, reliable if not dazzling. No wonder La Ferme has thrived through the decades.

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