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Amoo’s, 6271 Old Dominion Drive, McLean VA I came home from work last Thursday and suggested we drive to McLean for dinner. My kids’ first reaction was confusion. Dinner in Virginia? On a weeknight? You’d think I’d just asked them to hook up the Conestoga to set out for the Dakota Territories. But I held firm. The Persian restaurant Amoo’s had been ...READ MORE »
I love year-end retrospectives and “best of” lists. That used to include the montage Facebook puts together as my “Year-End Review.” But for some reason Amazon, Apple and Netflix started showing me the exact same montage, so it’s lost some of its punch.
Which means I had to make my own year-end review. I just scrolled through the food pics on ...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 »
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 »
Unconventional Diner, 1207 9th St NW, Washington DC Bresca, 1906 14th St NW, Washington DC There’s no obvious reason to review these two restaurants together, other than the fact that I ate at them both in the past couple of weeks. One does elevated American comfort food, often with an international spin, while the other does “bistronomy,” a modern and ...READ MORE »