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Officina, 1120 Maine Ave SW, Washington DC (The Wharf) I should have been in a better mood when I left Officina after dinner last Friday night. I’d just eaten at one of the most anticipated restaurant openings of 2018 by one of DC’s top chefs, Nicholas Stefanelli of Masseria. Indeed “restaurant” is probably an inadequate word to describe what I’d ...READ MORE »
I tend to avoid writing about out-of-town dining, mostly because I’m not that interested myself in reading about restaurants I’ll never visit. If there’s an article in Food & Wine about a charming little cafe on the shores of a bucolic lake in Patagonia, I’m already turning the pages looking for the next article.
New York City is different. A lot ...READ MORE »
Call Your Mother – A Jew-ish Deli, 3301 Georgia Ave NW, Washington DC (Parkview) Open Tuesday – Sunday, 8 am – 2 pm The much-anticipated Call Your Mother deli opened last Thursday in Parkview. On Friday, I was in line at 11 am for an early lunch. I know I told several of you that I’d wait to go with you ...READ MORE »
St. Anselm, 1250 5th St NE, Washington DC (near Union Market) St. Anselm has only been open a few weeks but it’s already made my short list of best new restaurants of 2018. I can’t say I’m surprised. It’s a joint venture between restaurateurs Joe Carroll, who own the original St. Anselm in Brooklyn, and the prolific Stephen Starr, who owns ...READ MORE »
Minnesota State Fair, 1265 Snelling Ave North, St Paul MN
Disneyland bills itself as the “happiest place on earth.” And yet I’ve never heard anyone say the food at Disneyland was amazing. Ipso facto, not the happiest.
By contrast, take the Minnesota State Fair, which takes place in St. Paul during the twelve days leading up to Labor Day. There are lots ...READ MORE »
Frankly…Pizza!, 10417 Armory Ave, Kensington MD Frankly…Pizza! is my favorite pizza in the DMV. That won’t surprise longtime readers, who may remember one of my very first posts in October 2016 ranking the Best Pizza in DC with Frankly…Pizza! occupying the top spot. But there are a lot of new people here, and on the off chance that a few of ...READ MORE »
Primrose, 3000 12th St NE, Washington DC Ellē, 3221 Mt. Pleasant St NW, Washington DC There may be nothing in the food world harder to pull off than a great neighborhood restaurant. So many pieces have to come together. First you need a great neighborhood, the more diverse the better, because that’s where you’re drawing from and a diverse crowd ...READ MORE »
This is a food blog, not a political blog, but sometimes it’s worth pointing out how closely the two are bound together. I just got back from a big family trip through Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. I went to celebrate my mom’s 80th and of course to eat. What I came away with — besides an extra five pounds ...READ MORE »
Rasa, 1247 First Street SE, Washington DC (Navy Yard) Kuya Ja’s Lechon Belly, 5268-H Nicholson Lane, Rockville MD I’m not sure exactly what “fast-casual” restaurants are — other than you order from a counter like fast food but pay more than fast food — but this week I’m reviewing two home-grown ones, Rasa and Kuya Ja’s Lechon Belly. Both serve ...READ MORE »
Sababa, 3311 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington DC Israeli food is hot. I’ll bet a lot of you have at least one cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi sitting on your shelf as we speak. The American Ottolenghi, Michael Solomonov, runs the popular Zahav in Philadelphia and will soon release his second cookbook on Israeli cuisine. Then there’s Einat Admony at Manhattan’s Balaboosta ...READ MORE »