Enjoying sweetbreads, the organ that looks like a brain. Plus: A Godzilla-themed menu, making pasta, and more.

Where to find great biscuits in D.C. Plus: Crabs and craft beer, Caribbean food festival, and more.

Places that offer a good selection — and good value — during Winter Restaurant Week.

On a cold day, it doesn’t get much better than tucking into a creamy bowl of cheese grits, topped with plump shrimp and maybe some bacon or andouille sausage. Somewhere between a stew and porridge, shrimp and grits is like a Southern answer to risotto.

Vidalia’s baked macaroni and cheese (Alicia Mazzara). Dish of the Week: Macaroni and Cheese For many of us, childhood memories of macaroni and cheese involve watery, neon orange noodles from Kraft. If you were really lucky, your mom might have sprung for Velveeta with its frighteningly gooey sauce from a squeeze packet. But mac ‘n’ cheese isn’t just for kids or poor college students anymore. These days, you can find macaroni and cheese on…

Washington area restaurants will offer what amounts to a November restaurant week from November 17-21. The promotion, restaurant reservation website OpenTable.com’s Appetite Stimulus Plan, includes 3-course fixed price menus—$24 for lunch and $35 for dinner—from over 75 Washington area restaurants. The concept and cost is for the most part in line with the standard biannual DC Restaurant Week promotion. In August’s RW, dinner prices cost $35.08, up from a $30 price point. RW lunches were…

Three or five? This is the question you’ll be asking yourself if you have reservations at Vidalia this week. In addition to the standard three course dinner for $35.08, Vidalia is also offering five courses for $50.08–and no upcharges. That is a mere $10 a course for a restaurant that normally charges $15 for starters and $30 for entrees. However, a Restaurant Week deal is only as good as the menu the restaurant elects to…