Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

I wanna go to the Turntable restaurant and disco up that way next. It's a Jamaican restaurant and they play Jamaican oldies at certain hours and blast dancehall in the latenight hours (or so I've read).

chez aunty libe is still there?! i had some of their food at some dc festival thing like.. 7-8 years ago. for some reason just assumed that place was no longer around. i'll have to go for some mafe, senegalese food is one of my favorites and i didn't think there was any place in dc to get it. (have tried to cook mafe myself and it didn't turn out too badly, but the spices were not quite right imo)

me and this girl walked from chinatown to u street and my feet huuuuuuurt

^^^no complaining unless you got hit by a cab while walking, which is how I DIED's travel about the city tends to go.

hey, I haven't been hit by a cab for a couple years! I think for a while it was part of some cab driver initiation rite.

I think I have to come down to see this queer portraiture thing at the NPGallery.

That show sounds great, I'm supposed to see it next week and will report back.

i'll be heading down myself at some point, would love a morbs meetup

k, I will see when I can get a cheap room and hope you don't get one of your crippling 3-inch snowfalls.

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.

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.

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 . . .

right but i had on ill fitting converse

i blame the shoes more than the walk tbh

also i am from texas and not used to you people's "walking"

I've walked farther around DC in ill-fitting converse. Man up, Hoos!

noted!!

Where can really good fried chicken - not fast food but not an extra-posh version at a silly price - be got in DC?

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.

Thanks - oohs and aahs looks accessible and good but also intrigued by the general store. Will report back.

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.

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

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.

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

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

probably still is

"I Died" (or others), how's Georgia Brown's (southern soul food restaurant)?

only been once 3 or 4 years ago, but i wasn't that impressed.

my family likes it but i've never been into soul food.

their peach cobbler is right on time iirc

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.

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.

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I 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.

i just watched an hour-long pbs show about breakfast spots in dc. damn, i want some eggs now!

Are there even an hour's worth of breakfast spots in DC? Never really thought of here as much of a breakfast town.

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.

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.

Tim Carman, the Washington City Paper's food critic is leaving the City Paper to join the Washington Post's Food section staff.

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

This is why I'm going to be living with my mother for another 5 or so months.

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.

Apparently I am supposed to DIP MY BREAD omg wtf

I should really calculate my %income spent on housing but ignorance is bliss amirite

yep.

This year's Washington Redskins mostly not worth watching

This year's?

lol

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

Don't you mean "that sazeac at tabard was GARBANZO?"

thought you drank the lafayette!

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.