Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

or days. i need a dc education, stat.

daria - Gin Joint, the ground floor bar at New Heights in Woodley Park

I've got friends with kids visiting in about a month - anyone got any recommendations for good kid-friendly restaurants? Including any posh ones, because I've been tasked with finding a fancy restaurant for their foodie dad's birthday. The kids are 18 months and 4, but for 4 read 2 because of developmental problems.

2 Amys works for kids and foodie dads

Good thought, and I like it a lot. How about for fancier dinner? Something tells me this isn't going to be easy...

god, I'm not sure of anything fancier that's suitable for kids - that age range is pretty much the worst possible for taking kids to restaurants. Maybe someplace like Zaytinya on the early side - big, loud, and casual enough to absorb a few young kids no problem.

is obelisk any good? i was intrigued by its low profile (no website?), but i've seen mixed reviews.

for general dining, i mean, not for kids

It's been around a long time now, and in a lot of ways was the precursor to Komi. I've been hearing good things lately after a few years of very mixed reviews, but for the money I can't bring myself to go to Obelisk over Komi, even if the latter is a bit more.

how was it the precursor to komi?

Just in terms of inspiration, not ownership or staffing. Small dining room w/ a fixed handwritten daily menu and a parade of small plates before the pasta and meat courses.

ah.

hi!
those are good days to be in dc: http://dcist.com/2010/02/dc_restaurants_unleashed.php

those are also days that i'll be in california.

enjoy your stay

― W i l l, Friday, February 26, 2010 9:04 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

awww taberna del alabardero! i miss that place.

i feel the same way about el tamarindo

In the past five years I've only been to El Tamarindo twice. Both were at 5am.

it does have the advantage of easily seating large groups. that's about all iirc.

and being open at 5am!

Diner at that hour imo

haha but it is right on time at 5am

(actually one time i was there with two friends at 4am or whatever and they both ended up getting sick -- and they didn't seem that drunk -- but i was fine!)

Obelisk: I love it but only go there when someone else is paying (my birthday, and work a couple times years ago).

Heh, maybe I should take the kids to Obelisk and see what happens. Zaytinya is a very good idea, I DIED, am pushing that one with these crazy parents.

"These Crazy Parents" -- a new food network show where foodie parents of young children go to nice restaurants and wackiness occurs

well hello.

i think at least friday evening will be a good time to have a drink if anyone's interested. my friend from nyc is coming down for the day but will leave me around 6 or 7 if anyone wants to meet up after work. also monday i'll be free from mid afternoon on.

suggestions for what we should do around the district on a friday in addition to the hirshhorn?

If you're seeking more art, not sure if this is too trad for you but the nearby to the Hirshhorn National Gallery of Art has "From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection"

Among the masterpieces on view are Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's Forest of Fontainebleau (1834), Auguste Renoir's A Girl with a Watering Can (1876), Mary Cassatt's Boating Party (1893/1894), Edouard Manet's Old Musician (1862), Pablo Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques (1905), and George Bellows' Blue Morning (1909). Other artists represented include Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Claude Monet.

Moneytown, a free,once a month, old-school soul dj dance thing is going on late Friday night at Dahlak, an Ethiopian restaurant at 18th & U

Some DJ-about-town soul people from NYC have guested at Moneytown, can tentatively recommend! I prefer my soul extremely un-funky but I'm kind of lame.

oh gosh i would be fine if i never saw another impressionist exhibit in my life. maybe.

i read a write up of that night and didn't see the word 'northern' anywhere and thought, "oh my, l would certainly not approve!" but mayyybe i will give it a shot! what's a good happy hour place?

The W. Post Going Out Gurus recommend Policy on 14th Street. "I Died" may have more ideas for you.:

If you're going out to see a DJ on Friday night, we hope you don't need to get up early on Saturday, because you're lucky if the person you want to see makes it on by midnight. That's not the case at Policy's Pregame happy hour on Fridays, which has featured local headliners Stereofaith, Jackie O and Billfold taking over the decks from 5 to 9 at the 14th Street lounge. The theme is music the DJs themselves would like to hear, so this week, when Nacey of Nouveau Riche is up, he'll play songs he picked up on a recent trip to New Orleans, say, some from the Rebirth Brass Band or Bo Dollis, alongside the usual go-go and party music. There's no cover, and the beer is dead cheap: you can get $2 Yuengling, $3 PBR and $4 rail cocktails.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/goingoutgurus/2010/03/nightlife_agenda_98.html#more

TZA -> BOURBON

The Yinka Shonibare exhibit at the Museum of African Art looks interesting to me

http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/shonibare/artworks.html

T, Friday night I'm going on a trawl around the small Dupont art galleries that happens every first Friday of the month with free wine/snacks, with a couple I know. (Did it about a year ago, haven't done it since). That'll be from about 5.30-6 till 7 or 8ish, then we'll probably go out to eat. I'll webmail you my mobile number in case you want to join us on the trawl or for the food - you'd be welcome! Monday pm I'm at work but will be around in the evening after about 7.

a bar called bourbon = SOLD

is one location better than the other?

that yinka shonibare stuff looks interesting, thanks.

ljub, i got your webmail. will let you know - sis and bro-in-law may come in for happy hour/dinner as well. metro area saturday looks tempting, too...

Planning on going to Metro Area. You should come!

I'll definitely be at metro area!

I like Bourbon Adams Morgan a little better, but not a huge difference.

Hello thread, Yinka Shonibare is kind of awesome. Go.

where's metro area? not that i will be around, just curious. last time at comet was intense fun.

Metro Area's playing in the basement of a new place called Bar 7, on 7th st just a couple doors down from The Passenger.

if this thread is any indication of attendance, that place is gonna be packed!

metro area in a basement sounds like 135 of my FB friends will attend

Anyone up for Ethiopian on Monday, 7:45-ish in the U St. environs?

My son's with his Mom that night, so maybe it's time for me to meet you and others that night (I've just met "I Died" and Will and DCers who've moved elsewhere-Pete and Zack).

Yay!

Clearly you need to meet some of the lady dcilxors.

We exist, honest.

I may be able to make it but will have to play it by ear.

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2010/03/02/PH2010030204542.jpg

Barry (Ward 8) twice implored colleagues to wait for an ethics review before they passed judgment. He told them that the report "reduced Marion Barry, 40 years of service, to a petty thief . . . to a Southeast hustler." from the W. Post article

Ugh MB. In an NPR clip I heard him say "blah blah. . . but they can't take away my dignity!" and I muttered out loud NO SHIT THAT'S BECAUSE YOU LOST IT LONG AGO.

amazing thing about him is that he always has this base of unswaying supporters no matter what he's done