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    Queen’s English Still Reigns

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    Queen’s English, 3410 11th Street NW, Washington DC (Columbia Heights); Rick’s Rating 9.2; $$$ (Expensive)

    “The Queen’s English” — the grammatically correct and coherent expression of the English language — traditionally becomes “The King’s English” …READ MORE »

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    Branching Out at Imperfecto and Joy

    Posted by Rick Chessen

     

    I was smitten with Venezuelan-born Chef Enrique Limardo’s cooking the first time I ate at his first DC outpost, Seven Reasons, back in 2019. His food was gutsy and flavorful, not precious and muted. He …READ MORE »

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    What I Did on My Sabbatical

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    I’m back. I didn’t know I was taking a blogging sabbatical but that’s how it worked out. Things just kept coming up — volunteering in Poland with World Central Kitchen, my son’s wedding, new episodes …READ MORE »

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    The Best Things I Ate This Week (October 31, 2021) — Thamee and Taqueria Xochi

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    This is the week I got my groove back. Thamee and Taqueria Xochi reminded me how much I love searching for that perfect bite and the absolute thrill of sometimes finding it. Suddenly I was …READ MORE »

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    The Best Things I Ate This Week (Despite Being Tormented by the NYT) (Oct 16, 2021) — Q by Peter Chang and Convivial

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    The New York Times is trying to kill me. I don’t know what I did, but obviously it was something that hurt them a lot. Because their new list of the 50 top US …READ MORE »

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    The Best Things I Ate This Week (August 29, 2021) — Call Your Mother, Spanish Diner, Homemade Jammy Eggs

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    Pro-tip: eating at home is not the same as eating in peace
    An early and short post this week because I’m off on a cross-country road trip that will take me to some of my favorite …READ MORE »

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    The Best Things I Ate This Week (August 22, 2021) — Frankly…Pizza!, CherCher, Makan, Homemade Orzo w/ Veggies

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    Late Summer BLT (homemade, but if you stop by I’ll make you one)
    It’s late August and that means it’s time for those familiar signs of summer’s end: good tomatoes, county fairs, and outraged Facebook posts …READ MORE »

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    The Best Things I Ate This Week (July 31, 2021) — Reveler’s Hour, Dauphine’s, Le Diplomate, ChiKo

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    Um…hey…how’ve you been? Great to see you again. I think it was last February, if you can believe it. Yeah, time does fly during lockdown. Or does it stand still. Either way, it’s been a …READ MORE »

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    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. …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 …READ MORE »

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    Anafre

    Throwback Comforts Outshine Comfort Foods at The Riggsby

    Posted by Rick Chessen

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    The Riggsby, 1731 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington DC (Dupont Circle) (Reviewed June 30, 2019)
    The Riggsby has been around for several years now, tucked away in the boutique Carlyle Hotel a few blocks off …READ MORE »

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    Seven Reasons – The Venezuelan Restaurant You Didn’t Know You Were Waiting For

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    Seven Reasons, 2208 14th St NW, Washington DC (14th and U) (Reviewed May 24, 2019)
    I knew this would happen. I knew that as soon I came out with my Top-25 Restaurant list, some new …READ MORE »

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    Seven Reasons

    Little Beast — Where the Relaxing Things Are

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    Little Beast, 5600 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington DC (reviewed March 4, 2019)
    This is a review of Little Beast, not I’m Eddie Cano! But it’s almost impossible to talk about one without the other ever …READ MORE »

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    Little Beast

    The Unsettling Audaciousness of Officina

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    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 …READ MORE »

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    Call Your Mother for DC’s Best Bagels

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    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, …READ MORE »

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    Call Your Mother

    St. Anselm — A New Starr in DC

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    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 …READ MORE »

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    Won’t You Be My Neighborhood Restaurant — Primrose and Ellē

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    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 …READ MORE »

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    Primrose
    Elle

    Israeli Cooking at Sababa — Some Good Dishes, But Not the Whole Megillah

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    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, …READ MORE »

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    Sababa

    So Alike and Yet So Different — Unconventional Diner and Bresca

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    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 …READ MORE »

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    Bresca

    You Don’t Know Momofuku

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    Momofuku CCDC, 1090 I St NW, Washington DC
    If you haven’t been to Momofuku lately, you haven’t been to Momofuku.
    You might remember when local-boy-turned-Manhattan-celebrity-chef David Chang announced he was opening an outpost of Momofuku in …READ MORE »

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    Momofuku DC

    Rick’s Top 25 DC Restaurants — Spring 2018

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    If you had 2017 or early 2018 in the office pool predicting when the DC restaurant bubble would burst, sorry, you’re out of contention (but not as quickly as me for picking Virginia to get …READ MORE »

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    Himitsu
    Tail Up Goat
    Arroz
    The Dabney
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    Le Diplomate
    Tiger Fork
    Red Hen DC
    Convivial
    Thip Khao
    Elle
    Momofuku
    Bistro Aracosia
    Rose's Luxury
    Primrose
    Brothers & Sisters

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    Frankly Pizza
    Inferno Pizza Napoletana

    Scattered Pictures at Rose’s Luxury

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    Rose’s Luxury, 717 8th Street SE, Washington DC
    I had dinner last Tuesday at Rose’s Luxury. But it felt more like the final scene from The Way We Were. It was poignant. It was wistful. If …READ MORE »

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    Rose's Luxury

    Himitsu Rules

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    Himitsu, 828 Upshur Street NW, Washington DC
    Himitsu means “secret” in Japanese, a bit of irony that seems funnier once you’re comfortably seated in this 24-seat jewel box than when you’re standing outside in twenty-degree …READ MORE »

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    Himitsu

    Sharing New Sharing Spots — Chloe, Brothers and Sisters

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    Chloe by Haidar Karoum, 1331 4th Street SE, Washington DC
    Brothers and Sisters, 1770 Euclid St NW (in The Line Hotel), Washington DC
    The thing that bothers me about restaurants that encourage sharing isn’t the …READ MORE »

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    Chloe
    Brothers and Sisters

    Requin for a Heavyweight

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    Requin at The Wharf, 100 District Square SW, Washington DC

     

    My wife doesn’t quite understand my obsession with knowing if the head chef is in the kitchen when we eat out. Chefs train their subordinates …READ MORE »

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    Requin

    Kith and Kin and the Road to Redemption

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    Kith and Kin, 801 Wharf Street SW, Washington DC (in the Intercontinental Hotel)
    I never made it to Chef Kwame Onwuachi’s previous restaurant, Shaw Bijou. In my defense, it was only open for two-and-a-half months.
    For …READ MORE »

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    Kith and Kin

    Mexican All the Way(s) — La Placita, El Mexicano, Mezcalero Cucina, and Espita Mezcaleria

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    Here’s how much I love Mexican food: I even like bad Mexican food. Set me in front of a sack of Taco Bell tacos and I’ll tear through them like Joey Chestnut on the Fourth …READ MORE »

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    Mezcalero Cucina
    Espita Mezcaleria

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    Taqueria La Placita
    Taqueria El Mexicano

    The Unbearable Randomness of Pizza — Timber and All-Purpose

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    If I’d written this post a few months ago, it would have looked completely different. I’d just gone for pizza at two DC hot spots, Timber Pizza and All-Purpose Pizzeria, and I was ready to …READ MORE »

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    Timber Pizza
    All-Purpose

    Mooning Over Umami

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    Tiger Fork, Blagden Alley, 922 N Street NW, Washington DC
    If you want to eat at Tiger Fork, the new Hong Kong-style restaurant in Shaw, you first have to acquaint yourself with Blagden Alley.

    First-time visitors can …READ MORE »

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    Tiger Fork

    Haikan Feels Like Dinner

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    “Tuesday has no feel. Monday has a feel. Friday has a feel. Sunday has a feel.” — Newman on Seinfeld
    Haikan
    805 V St, NW, Washington DC

    Breakfast has a feel for some people. They need something hot. Or …READ MORE »

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    Haikan

    Sfoglina — A Real Mouthful in Van Ness

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    Sfoglina, 4445 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington DC

    It’s a mild Wednesday evening between Christmas and New Year’s, the time of year when half of Washington seems to be away. But at Sfoglina — Fabio and …READ MORE »

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    Sfoglina

    Rick’s DC Cheap Eats — Vol. 1, Fall 2016

    Posted by Rick Chessen

    Welcome to my first installment of Rick’s Cheap Eats. It won’t be the last. There are a lot of holes left to fill, including Korean, Vietnamese, BBQ, ‘Po boys, and kabobs (see separate posts on …READ MORE »

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    Best Burgers in DC 2016

    Posted by Rick Chessen

     
    It seems like you can’t get away from burgers these days. Look at the menu the next time you sit down to dinner. If you don’t see a burger, enjoy the sushi or the vindaloo.
    It …READ MORE »

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