‘Venison, Bourbon Steak’
courtesy of ‘bonappetitfoodie’

Let me just start this by saying that if you haven’t tried Bourbon Steak’s fries yet, please do…but that’s a totally different story.

The restaurant, located in Georgetown’s Four Seasons, hasn’t stopped tweeting since it first logged on back in December 2009. @BourbonSteakDC currently has more than 2,100 followers and tweets about five times a day. The polite restaurant will always thank you on Twitter for coming in to dine, and recently it got be excited about an event I had somehow forgotten about. 

 The original Tweet is from Bourbon’s @ChefSobel, but I’m glad to know that restaurant and chef are on the same page — at least when it comes to pork. For those of you who don’t know, Cochon 555 is coming back to DC on the 13th. Five area chefs — Scott Drewno of The Source, Ashby Inn’s Tarver King, Jamie Leeds of Hank’s Oyster Bar,  Volt’s Bryan Voltaggio, and Chef Sobel — will compete to see who can make the best dishes from an entire pig. Oh, and there’s wine.

I wonder what Sobel is cooking up. And will he tell us more in a Tweet?

Bourbon’s PR rep tells me that they use Twitter not only to share their daily dining specials and special events with followers, but also to comment on fun ideas at other restaurants and remind followers of  “what  issues are trending in DC at any given moment.” Not sure if pork dishes count as an “issue,” but either way…thanks and congratulations!

Tricia Barba

Tricia is a native Washingtonian, born and raised in Columbia Heights. She loves DC so much that she was only able to leave the city for one year after college and immediately came running back. Tricia works in PR during the day, and spends her nights trying out new restaurants in DC with friends or watching The Good Wife, Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice. Tricia recently decided to eat her way though all of Zagat’s 2011 restaurants until she realized she would be old and broke by the time she finished. Follow her on Twitter and email her at Tricia (at) welovedc.com.