Restaurant Week is becoming the must have fashion accessory for the D.C. area this winter. Everyone’s got to have one. Case in point: Silver Spring, a long-suffering suburban “edge city” that has been on the upswing for the last few years is officially entering the fray to show off its shiny new dining scene February 5-11. THIS JUST IN: The price for a 2-course lunch will be just $12, while a 3-course dinner will be…

D.C. foodies out there may notice that there’s something missing from their dishes. Restaurants are cutting back on the use of tomatoes because of rising food costs — a bad combination of flooding in California, all those hurricanes in Florida and insects coming across the border from Mexico is to blame. Though its doubtful Pizza Mart will start serving sauceless slices, suburbanites may notice that the Olive Garden and Red Lobster have done away with…