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Articles and Reviews

Cheffy Take on Chinese Takeout at Lucky Danger

Posted by Rick Chessen

Lucky Danger, 455 I St NW, Washington DC (Mt. Vernon Square), reviewed January 12, 2021 You’ll be glad to know this isn’t a 2020 year-in-review. No one wants to relive that shit show, including me. I thought about doing a post on the best takeout I had in 2020. I even started flipping through my photos only to realize that, ...READ MORE »

Posted in NW, Restaurants DC, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Fancying Queen’s English

Posted by Rick Chessen

Queen’s English, 3410 11th St NW, Washington DC (Columbia Heights) (reviewed October 20, 2020) Naturally, the day after I posted a list of the best things I’ve eaten lately, I had one of my favorite restaurant meals of 2020. In Before Times, I would have taken a couple of weeks to write about it, but in the middle of a ...READ MORE »

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You Still Gotta Eat

Posted by Rick Chessen

The country, as I’m sure you’re aware, is going to crap in a crap-basket. And it could get worse. We may be heading into a brutal second COVID wave and a constitutional crisis of epic proportions. Given the existential crises we’re facing, I thought now would be the perfect time for one of my blog posts ruminating on the frustrations ...READ MORE »

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Kamala Is Pronounced Foodie

Posted by Rick Chessen

(Published August 11, 2020) Everyone’s rightly excited that Kamala Harris is the first Black woman and first Asian-American on a national ticket. But she’s also the first foodie. While we’ve had national office seekers who enjoy eating — President Taft and pre-vegan Bill Clinton come to mind — none of them had the kind of relationship to food that Harris does. ...READ MORE »

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The Time Roberto Donna Wanted to Strangle Me

Posted by Rick Chessen

You probably don’t remember what you were doing at noon on May 19, 2006. I do. I was waiting in line for Roberto Donna to strangle me. Many of you know of Roberto Donna, who burst onto the Washington dining scene in 1984 when he opened Galileo at the impossibly young age of twenty-three. Galileo was such an immediate smash that ...READ MORE »

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The Halibut That Almost Broke Up My Marriage

Posted by Rick Chessen

A halibut nearly broke up my marriage. Not intentionally, I suppose. He was dusted in porcini at the time and presumably unaware of the havoc he was creating around him. Still, the indisputable fact is that if he had never been born – indeed, if the whole halibut phylum had never evolved – my wife and I wouldn’t have been ...READ MORE »

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Rick Eats Take-Out

Posted by Rick Chessen

I’m back. I hope you’ve missed me as much as I’ve missed you. I haven’t written anything since the lockdown started nineteen years ago. There hasn’t been a lot to report. My cooking skills have been reinvigorated. I can serve chicken thighs more ways than George Washington Carver served peanuts. But sometimes all I can scrounge up is some shriveled eggplant ...READ MORE »

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Mini-Review: Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza

Posted by Rick Chessen

Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza, 7776 Norfolk Ave, Bethesda MD (posted February 12, 2020) (Mini-Review) Since this is a mini-review, let me cut to the chase. The newly-opened Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza is good. Not drive-thirty-minutes-out-of-your-way good, but solid-option-in-Bethesda-if-you-feel-like-pizza good. Given the state of Bethesda dining, that’s a big deal. Anyone who thinks otherwise is, as Joe Biden would put it, ...READ MORE »

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Anafre Ain’t Afraid

Posted by Rick Chessen

Posted March 1, 2020 Anafre, 3704 14th Street NW, Washington DC (Columbia Heights) There were two big freak outs in the foodie community over the past month. The first was AOC declaring it’s impossible to get a good bacon-egg-and-cheese sandwich in DC. Foodie Twitter got so bent out of shape that you think she’d done something completely unforgivable like wear a ...READ MORE »

Posted in NW, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Matzo Ball Soup in DC — So Maybe You Think You Could Rank Them Better?

Posted by Rick Chessen

When DGS Deli closed last year, we lost the area’s most ambitious Jewish deli. You may not have noticed the vacuum if you’re craving a bagel and lox with a schmear or a pastrami on rye. Places like Call Your Mother, Ivy City Smokehouse and Stachowski’s can scratch those itches. But matzo ball soup is different. Like chopped liver and ...READ MORE »

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