Dine Out Boston Returns to Rochambeau, August 1–15
Dine Out Boston is the city's citywide restaurant week, and Rochambeau is taking part from August 1 through 15 with a three-course dinner prix fixe at $55 and a two-course lunch at $32. The program runs twice a year, in January and August, and gives Boston diners a fixed-price way to sit down at tables they might otherwise save for a special occasion.
What's on the menu at Rochambeau for Dine Out Boston?
The prix fixe follows the same logic as the regular carte: a starter, a main, and something sweet, built from what the kitchen is already doing well. Expect the brasserie's usual register — a proper onion soup, a piece of fish cooked simply, a dessert that doesn't try too hard — rather than a separate, scaled-down menu built just for the promotion. Diners can expect to choose from a short list of options at each course, the way a good prix fixe should work: a few real choices, not twelve.
Is lunch part of the deal too?
Yes — the $32 two-course lunch runs alongside the dinner prix fixe for the full two weeks. For anyone working near Boylston Street or spending an afternoon around the Fenway and Symphony end of Boston, it's a reason to sit down at midday rather than grab something standing up. The room does lunch well: quieter, more light through the windows, less of a production than dinner.
Do I need a reservation?
Reservations are recommended, especially for dinner, since Dine Out Boston tends to bring in guests who've been meaning to try a place and finally have a reason. Rochambeau is open seven days a week, Monday through Sunday, with dinner service running until 10 pm Sunday through Thursday and 11 pm on Friday and Saturday. Walk-ins are welcome at the bar, where the by-the-glass list stays in play even during the promotion.
Why does a restaurant like Rochambeau take part in restaurant week?
Because a fixed price is a low-stakes way to get someone in the door who might not otherwise book a table. Rochambeau's regular service doesn't change for the two weeks — the same cave, the same by-the-glass pours, the same pace in the room — but the prix fixe gives new guests, and regulars, a clear, contained way to try three courses without studying the full carte first. It's restaurant week, not a reinvention.
The short version
- Dates: August 1–15
- Dinner: three courses, $55
- Lunch: two courses, $32
- Where: 900 Boylston Street, Boston
- Hours: open daily, 10 am, with dinner service Monday–Thursday and Sunday until 10 pm, Friday–Saturday until 11 pm
Anyone curious about what else the kitchen has been up to lately can find more on the Rochambeau blog.