{"id":5234,"date":"2025-02-17T06:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2025-02-17T06:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T22:27:01","slug":"dining-in-dc-live-at-the-library-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2025\/02\/dining-in-dc-live-at-the-library-of-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Dining in DC: Live! at the Library of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre id=\"block-770d831a-2c29-4f52-9168-477d50721081\" class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=5153\">Dining in DC: Notes from a Week in the Capital<\/a><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Drinks and Nibbles at this American Institution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We visited the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/visit\/\">Library of Congress<\/a><\/strong> on a Thursday afternoon, after a visit to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2025\/02\/dining-in-dc-the-members-dining-room-restaurant-the-capitol\/\">Capitol<\/a>, the beautiful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usbg.gov\/\">botanical gardens<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/americanindian.si.edu\/\">National Museum of the American Indian<\/a>.  While the Library of Congress is open to visitors weekly, on Thursday afternoons they have extended hours and also offer food and drinks for sale.  It&#8217;s an opportunity to check out the atrium, a couple of galleries and look at the Main Reading Room, while feeling you are in the midst of a soiree.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/signal-2025-02-16-140611_002-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/signal-2025-02-16-140611_002-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/signal-2025-02-16-140611_002-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/signal-2025-02-16-140611_002-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/signal-2025-02-16-140611_002-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/signal-2025-02-16-140611_002-676x507.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/signal-2025-02-16-140611_002.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2025\/02\/dining-in-dc-ethiopic\/\">dinner reservations<\/a> for later in the evening, but it had been a while since lunch, so Mike got a snack tray that came with very tasty homemade bread with&nbsp;apple, brie and sweet onion jam or prosciutto, fig and mascarpone.&nbsp; It was actually quite decision, and a reasonable price (he thinks $12 or $14). Drink prices were also reasonable.<br><br>The one thing I wish I&#8217;d done is check in my coat before I started walking around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/events\/?fa=partof:live%20at%20the%20library\"><strong>Live! at the Library<\/strong><\/a><br>Library of Congress<br>Thomas Jefferson Building<br>10 First Street SE<br>Washington, DC 20540<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dining in DC: Notes from a Week in the Capital Drinks and Nibbles at this American Institution We visited the Library of Congress on a Thursday afternoon, after a visit to the Capitol, the beautiful botanical gardens and the National Museum of the American Indian. 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