I think I have to come down to see this queer portraiture thing at the NPGallery.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 November 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
That show sounds great, I'm supposed to see it next week and will report back.
― I DIED, Sunday, 21 November 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i'll be heading down myself at some point, would love a morbs meetup
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 21 November 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
k, I will see when I can get a cheap room and hope you don't get one of your crippling 3-inch snowfalls.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 November 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha.
x-post to Daria--The maffe (peanut sauce stew) was good. The few online reviews of Libe's said the Yassa was just ok. We bought juice drinks too--They gave us a ginger juice drink in a plastic bottle with no label and a pomegranate tasting one in a plastic bottle also. It's a small family run restaurant. Not sure how far the restaurant is from the green line Metro stop up that way or via bus, as I drove.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 November 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey morbs I have a guest room if you don't mind sharing a bathroom with a me (presumably not at the same time). Also have a cat so no help if you have kitty allergies.
― quincie, Sunday, 21 November 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
me and this girl walked from chinatown to u street and my feet huuuuuuurt
this is not really that far iirc
also might be coming down some time soonish . . .
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 November 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
right but i had on ill fitting converse
i blame the shoes more than the walk tbh
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 21 November 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
also i am from texas and not used to you people's "walking"
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 21 November 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I've walked farther around DC in ill-fitting converse. Man up, Hoos!
― Gukbe, Sunday, 21 November 2010 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
noted!!
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 21 November 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Where can really good fried chicken - not fast food but not an extra-posh version at a silly price - be got in DC?
― ljubljana, Monday, 22 November 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
best: the general store in silver spring
good: the hitching post in petworth, oohs and aahs on u st, horace and dickie's on h st (more for the fried fish)
i know there's new fine dining places that have good stuff too, but those are my go-to spots.
― Moreno, Monday, 22 November 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks - oohs and aahs looks accessible and good but also intrigued by the general store. Will report back.
― ljubljana, Monday, 22 November 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought Oohs and Aahs was pretty tasty but kinda overpriced. The dining areas are kinda small also. But yea, it's pretty accessible, right there on U. St.
Which reminds me that I still have never tried the upscale soul food brunch at B. Smith's.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 November 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Oohs and Aahs is delicious but I generally stick to the dishes that benefit from sitting in hot pans for a long time, they rarely cook a la minute.
B. Smith's is a waste of time, unfortunately.
I find the fried chicken & waffles for brunch at a lot of the mid-level restaurants to be some of the city's best - Creme, Marvin, and especially Birch & Barley.
I'll second Hitching Post.
also, POPEYE'S
― I DIED, Monday, 22 November 2010 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
the general store is the shit. i eat there probably once a week. they only do sunday brunch but their chicken and waffles is amazing. it comes with mashed potatoes with a gravy that's half gravy and half syrup... so good. also, since it's out in the middle of nowhere, you don't have to deal with the crowds you get at some of the good dc places.
― Moreno, Monday, 22 November 2010 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Ya gotta eat chicken & waffles out in Los Angeles at Roscoe's. Did that for the first time this summer. Anybody try it at Gladys Knight's restaurant at Capital Centre Blvd in Largo? Yes it's a chain restaurant
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 November 2010 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
in high school tick tock liquor was always the reliable spot for getting your terrible fake id bought from the georgetown video rental place accepted
― fauxmarc, Monday, 22 November 2010 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
probably still is
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 04:19 (thirteen years ago) link
"I Died" (or others), how's Georgia Brown's (southern soul food restaurant)?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
only been once 3 or 4 years ago, but i wasn't that impressed.
― Moreno, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
my family likes it but i've never been into soul food.
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
their peach cobbler is right on time iirc
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
The maffe (peanut sauce stew) was good. The few online reviews of Libe's said the Yassa was just ok. We bought juice drinks too--They gave us a ginger juice drink in a plastic bottle with no label and a pomegranate tasting one in a plastic bottle also.
Not that big a fan of Libe's, it's passable though. The "pomegranate tasting one," if it was purplish, was most likely bissap, cold hibscus tea. For people interested, the Takoma metro is at least 1 mile away, but the Georgia Ave buses (70,71,79) stop right in front of the restaurant.
― Ivor, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Georgia Brown's is pretty $$$ but the portions are huge. Maybe it was a good restaurant once, but it must have been before my time.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
x-postI think it was Bissap. Yea, I guess Aunt Libe's is south of the takoma metro and too far north of the other one.
I'm starting my quest to try D.C.'s various West and East (and wherever else) African restaurants. I mean I ate at Bukom years ago, some other place out in Langley Park, Roger Miller's in Silver Spring and have had Ethiopian, but have not yet been to Keur Damel in Silver Spring (just opened this year- Senegalese I think); or Akosomboh; or Sumah's Carryout.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i just watched an hour-long pbs show about breakfast spots in dc. damn, i want some eggs now!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Are there even an hour's worth of breakfast spots in DC? Never really thought of here as much of a breakfast town.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Was just reading a Washingtonian e-mail from their food critic Todd Kliman who used to be at the City Paper and he just wrote in response to a reader looking for a leisurely weekday breakfast:
Todd Kliman: This just isn't a breakfast town, unfortunately. You've got high-end hotel dining and some greasy spoons, and not much of anything in between.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
That might over-generalize a bit
they did both the high-end hotels and greasy spoons but also stretched to some other things like art and soul and diners out in fairfax.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Tim Carman, the Washington City Paper's food critic is leaving the City Paper to join the Washington Post's Food section staff.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
One in five renters and one in seven homeowners in the Washington area spend more than half their income on housing, according to census figures, a proportion that housing experts consider a severe burden.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/27/AR2010112702782.html
Statistics supporting what we sadly already know
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
This is why I'm going to be living with my mother for another 5 or so months.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Guys why am I watching "Non-Stop Foodies" on this weird DC channel (4.2 for those of us without the cables) instead of football?
Am currently being instructed on how to eat mussels at Brasserie Beck.
― quincie, Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Apparently I am supposed to DIP MY BREAD omg wtf
― quincie, Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I should really calculate my %income spent on housing but ignorance is bliss amirite
― quincie, Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
yep.
This year's Washington Redskins mostly not worth watching
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 November 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
This year's?
― quincie, Monday, 29 November 2010 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 29 November 2010 06:16 (thirteen years ago) link
yo that sazerac at tabard was boss as all get out. loved the atmosphere. good to see yall!! next time we surely must lure out the tombot.
q you gotta tell me what you think about that book! also where did i recommend it? lol
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 29 November 2010 06:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't you mean "that sazeac at tabard was GARBANZO?"
― quincie, Monday, 29 November 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
thought you drank the lafayette!
― tehresa, Monday, 29 November 2010 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2010/11/police_investigating_dead_body_foun.php
totally glad i didn't go with that alley-entrance basement apt at 11th and euclid.
― tehresa, Monday, 29 November 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
― quincie, Monday, November 29, 2010 3:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
u r correct and i applaud u for the correction
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Tabard has one of the best Sazeracs in town for sure. Minutes to learn, lifetime to master.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
what's new?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 December 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Nothing sports-wise...Wizards stink, Redskins stink, and Caps do well in the regular season but fall apart in the playoffs.
Politics no fun.
Cold weather but no snow.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 December 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I had lunch with 69 today and he admitted to missing DC awwwww <3
― quincie, Friday, 10 December 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link