Decadence on the menu at the Four Seasons

To judge by the crowds at Bourbon Steak in recent weeks, the recession hasn’t hurt everyone. And to judge by the calorie counts on some of the plates here, the well-heeled crowd at the new restaurant and lounge in the Four Seasons can also afford to spend a few hours at the gym each week.

This recipe of decadence plus affluence clearly works for celebrity chef Michael Mina: The Georgetown location is his 16th restaurant, his fourth named Bourbon Steak (the moniker a nod to Kentucky’s Bourbon Stockyards, which, until its closing in 1999, was the nation’s oldest continually operating cattle/livestock yard).