A Familiar Wine Bar With New Spanish Small Plates Reopens This Week in Glover Park

Glover Park’s long-running Slate Wine Bar + Bistro is almost ready to show off a fresh look and new small plates from one of the most accomplished Spanish chefs in the city.

Chef-owner Danny Lledó, who grew up near Valencia in Denía, Spain, and has become a regular at international paella competitions, expects to reopen Slate tomorrow following a seven-month absence as part of a bigger renovation project on Wisconsin Avenue NW.

The new food menu is split into four sections. “Snacks from the bar” include $5 servings of cheeses and charcuterie — think Mahon cheese or pimenton-packed, cured sobrassada sausage, both from the Balearic islands off the coast of Valencia — along with white anchovies ($6) or American sturgeon caviar ($30) served with chips.

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There are also small “bites,” like Serrano ham and tomato sliders, and small plates such as cod served with sobressada and honey, or oxtail stew with potatoes (both $12).

Market-priced entrees of the day that could feed one to two people will include a “big steak dinner” for Fridays. The wine bar will have a dozen options by the glass ($9 to $18), and a list of 70 bottles ranges from $40 to $200.

The 7-year-old venue was part of a remodeling project that turned a top floor of office space into a separate restaurant, called Xiquet, which will become a special occasion destination for wood-grilled paella, rotisserie suckling pig, Valencian flatbreads, and other coastal Mediterranean plates. Xiquet open Tuesday, March 3, and will feature two tasting menu options (five course for $90 or eight for $130) and an a la carte menu with Lledó’s paellas ($35 to $50).

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