From Mallard:
“Mallard Supper Series: A Very Special Foie Gras Dinner at Mallard
Thursday, November 12th | 6:30pm – 8:30pm
$125 Per Guest | $65 Optional Wine Pairings
Our Supper Series returns to Mallard! Join us on Thursday, November 12th for an exclusive communal dining experience featuring four foie gras dishes from Chef Hamilton Johnson and a special welcome cocktail from Spirits Director Nick Farrell.
We’ll also have optional wine pairings available for this very special dinner.
Foie Gras has been in the headlines recently and, while foie gras’ restaurant availability will likely come to an end next summer in Washington, DC, we remain steadfast champions of this specialty product. We look forward to hosting you for a memorable dinner showcasing responsibly-farmed foie gras sourced exclusively from humanely-raised and fed ducks at La Belle Farms, a 40-acre, family-run, duck farm located in Sullivan County, NY.
The Dinner is priced at $125 per guest. Optional Wine Pairings are $65.
FOIE GRAS DINNER AT MALLARD
-welcome drink-
Foie Yeah!
Scotch, Quince, Sauternes, Lemon, Bitters
1st course
foie gras & celery root parfait
black truffle brioche, quince jam, duck chicharonnes
Treveri, Brut Prestige, Pinot Noir / Chardonnay, Columbia Valley, Washington, 2018
2nd course
foie gras “french toast”
cast iron foie, croissant custard, vanilla-parsnip marmalade, aged sherry vinegar
Pewsey Vale, Riesling, Eden Valley, Australia, 2023
3rd course
foie gras-stuffed south carolina quail
cornbread pudding, mustard greens, southern fried apples, foie gras-quail jus
Terre D’elu, L’esquif, Gamay, Anjou, Loire Valley, France, 2023
4th course
foie gras butterfinger
peanut butter-feuilletine crunch, foie gras & white chocolate nougat, dark chocolate ganache
Château Les Justices, Sauternes, Bordeaux, France, 2022
Due to the communal nature of this dinner, we will not be able to make large changes to the menu to accommodate allergies. Small changes will be approved by Chef on a case by case basis. 20% of the ticket price will go directly to our service team as a gratuity.”
From Animal Outlook:
“Animal Outlook, today, sent a cease and desist letter to Mallard, a restaurant on 14th Street NW, demanding it stop advertising its foie gras as “responsibly-farmed” and sourced “exclusively from humanely-raised and fed ducks.” The letter says the claims are false and misleading under the DC Consumer Protection Procedures Act (CPPA).
The demand comes days after more than 73% of D.C. voters approved Initiative 86, which prohibits the sale of foie gras in the District. Mallard is promoting a four-course foie gras “Supper Series” dinner on Thursday, November 12, priced at $125 per guest, with optional $65 wine pairings. The restaurant’s own promotion acknowledges that foie gras availability in D.C. will likely end next summer, and describes the restaurant as “steadfast champions” of the product.
“Voters in our nation’s capital just told us what they think of foie gras, and they were not ambiguous,” says Ben Williamson, Executive Director of Animal Outlook. “Whatever a restaurant’s views on the product, it cannot tell diners that something made by force-feeding ducks through a pipe is humane. That claim is not true, and under D.C. law consumers have a right to truthful information about what they are buying.”
The CPPA prohibits misrepresenting the qualities or standards of a product, and applies regardless of whether any individual consumer is actually misled or harmed. The letter argues that reasonable DC consumers who do not know how foie gras is made would be misled by the “humane” claim, given that most who learn how it is produced believe the practice is so inhumane the product should not be sold. Washington, D.C. joins California, New York City, Denver, Portland and Pittsburgh in prohibiting foie gras through votes or legislation.
To produce foie gras, ducks are confined and force-fed multiple times a day through a pipe inserted down their throats, a process that continues for up to a month until their livers swell to roughly ten times normal size. Ducks who survive are left bloated, panting and barely able to walk. Animal Outlook documented the process during an undercover investigation at a Minnesota foie gras farm, available at animaloutlook.org/investigations/au-bon-canard/.
The letter demands that Mallard:
Stop advertising any foie gras as “responsibly-farmed,” “humanely” raised or similar, now and in the future.
Contact everyone who registered for the dinner to clarify that foie gras cannot be “humanely raised.”
Cancel the November 12 dinner.
Animal Outlook has also asked Mallard to confirm these steps in writing, and to provide all representations made to it by its supplier, La Belle Farms, that the foie gras is humanely raised or responsibly farmed, by 5:00 p.m. EST on Monday, November 9, 2026. If Mallard does not respond, Animal Outlook says it is prepared to pursue all available recourse.
Animal Outlook is a nonprofit animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals through undercover investigations, litigation, corporate outreach, public education, and other advocacy programs.“