Roasted haloumi with honey and apple marmalade at Sababa in Cleveland Park. | Sababa Feast on apple cakes, tender braised beef brisket, and multi-course dinners for the high holiday Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, starts in the evening on Wednesday, October 2, and runs through Friday, October 4. Symbolic foods like apples and honey represent a wish for a sweet new year, and savory sides typically include spiral-shaped challah bread, couscous with vegetables, and potato knishes. Mains like brisket and matzo balls commonly fill out the table. Rosh Hashanah is followed by Yom Kippur (October 11-12), a day of atonement and fasting. Together, they make the high holidays, ten of the most sacred days on the Jewish calendar. Here are the D.C. restaurants and bakeries offering festive Rosh Hashanah meals for dine-in, delivery, and takeout. Teddy & The Bully Bar Teddy & The Bully Bar’s starters include a matzoh ball soup recipe from co-owner Alan Popovsky’s 95-year-old mom, Irene. Teddy & The Bully Bar The downtown staple brings back its annual Rosh Hashanah dinner at sundown on October 2 and October 3. The three-course Jewish New Year menu kicks off with locally baked challah, apples handpicked by PRG Hospitality co-founder Alan Popovsky’s two sons, and honey, followed by starters like gefilte fish, chopped chicken liver, and butternut squash latkes. For mains, choose from all-natural brisket of beef, smoked Virginia brook trout, roasted half chicken, or honey-glazed salmon. Dessert includes options like honey cake with apricot, ginger sorbet, and flourless chocolate cake with cherries. The cost: $60 per person. 1200 19th Street NW Silver & Sons BBQ The roving Maryland food truck celebrates Rosh Hashanah with a special reheat-and-eat menu filled with juicy meats, spreads, vegetable sides, and dessert for four ($180). A la carte highlights include challah round loaf, matzo ball soup, harissa-smoked carrot tzimmes, brisket bourekas, chicken liver mousse with everything-spiced lavash crackers, and roasted beet salad with pomegranate-sumac vinaigrette, plus mains like red snapper with a Moroccan saffron and fish bone broth, smoked brisket, whole chicken with roasted garlic and jalapeno zhug, and 9-inch pies like apple upside-down cake. The team is also offer Yom Kippur breakfast options for the first time this year. Order online for pickup at its new catering facility (627 Lofstrand Lane, Rockville, Maryland), as well as some of its food truck stops, on Tuesday, October 1 and Wednesday, October 2. Bread Furst In addition to making hundreds of challah (honey raisin or plain), D.C.’s James Beard Award-winning bakery prepares a full dinner spread to host Rosh Hashanah at home. The meal for four to six ($254) includes owner Mark Furstenberg’s locally treasured recipes for chopped liver and matzah ball soup. The star of the show is onion-braised beef brisket that follows a traditional preparation in a roasted tomato puree. The kasha varnishkes side stars homemade bowtie pasta with wild mushrooms and chives. Call the Van Ness bakery to order for pickup or delivery on October 2 and 3: 202-765-1200. 4434 Connecticut Avenue NW Sababa Sababa Golden beet and pomegranate salad over a citrus labneh. Cleveland Park’s modern Israeli restaurant celebrates Rosh Hashanah with a variety of dinner specials from Wednesday, October 2 to Friday, October 4. Chef Ryan Moore prepares roasted haloumi with honey and apple marmalade; golden beet and pomegranate salad over a citrus labneh; salmon braised with chraimeh sauce and olives; and braised beef brisket with carrots and sweet potato ($16 to $30). Available during dinner service, in addition to its full menu from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. (and until 10 p.m. on Sunday). And for Yom Kuppur, Sababa celebrates with dinner dishes like grape leaf-wrapped haloumi and sumac crusted salmon on Friday, October 11 and Saturday, October 12. 3311 Connecticut Avenue NW Call Your Mother An assorted mini pastry box from Call Your Mother. Call Your Mother The hit deli offers DIY sandwiches sets for the high holiday. Meal boxes for four ($68) includes barbecue brisket and pastrami, braided challah rolls, apple barbecue sauce, za’atar potato salad, tomato, cucumber, and peach salads, basil honey dressing, and more. There’s also a latke appetizer platter for four with an optional smoked salmon add-on, plus apple cider cake, honey apple babka muffins (sets of 6 or 12), and pints of Dolcezza’s wildflower honey gelato for dessert. Order online for pickup, delivery, or catering from all D.C. area locations. Rosh Hashanah specials are available October 2-4, and Yom Kippur specials are available October 12. For questions, email [email protected]. Multiple locations Lettuce Entertain You Lettuce Entertain You Matzo ball soup at Joe’s. Three Lettuce Entertain You restaurants offer multi-course holiday menus for dine-in and carryout from Wednesday, October 2 to Thursday, October 3. Place reheat-and-eat orders on Tock by Monday, September 30. Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab: The prix-fixe feast at the downtown standby includes gefilte fish with red beet horseradish; chopped liver bibb lettuce salad; matzo ball soup; herb roasted chicken or braised beef brisket with red wine bordelaise; ginger-glazed carrots and potato pancakes; and flourless chocolate cake or key lime pie ($74.95 per person; $24.95 for kids 12 and under). Reserve a seat for dine-in service from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. or order carryout here. 750 15th Street NW Summer House - North Bethesda: The Pike & Rose restaurant’s spread includes challah bread with sliced apples and honey, matzo ball soup, slow-braised beef short rib, and more ($54.95 per guest, and $24.95 for kids 12) from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Reserve a seat online or order carryout here. 11825 Grand Park Avenue, North Bethesda, Maryland Lettuce Entertain You The Rosh Hashanah spread at Summer House. Sunday Morning Bakehouse The beloved North Bethesda bakery in Pike & Rose, which plans to expand to Northern Virginia in Tysons Corner soon, sends out round challah ($9.75) and apple honey muffins ($21 for six) for Rosh Hashanah. Preorder online starting September 25 for pick-up on October 2. Limited quantities will be available for walk-ins. For Yom Kippur, orders on braided challah ($9.75) start October 3 for pick-up on October 11. 11869 Grand Park Ave, North Bethesda, Maryland Sunflower Bakery Sunflower Bakery A holiday cookie platter by Sunflower Bakery. The Rockville-based nonprofit that helps young adults get jobs in the pastry and hospitality world offers an extensive menu for Rosh Hashanah. All of the items are dairy-free and kosher, with offerings like round challah (traditional, raisin, honey wheat, almond and vegan) — available from September 29-October 23 — and desserts like apple and honey cake, honey cookies, Bubbie’s apple bundt cake for 20, and “Shana Tova” happy new year cookies. Sweets also include pomegranate pink fudge cupcakes, granola almond coffee cake, sticky toffee pudding, and holiday platters. There’s over 30 pick-up locations across the DMV. Order in advance by Wednesday, September 25. For more information, go here.