Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

you are a fed now are you even allowed to quit?

I mean your job, not being white

i wasn't going to come down for this, but now...

this article is even more cringeworthy than you can possibly imagine.
Chefs Settle Down in ‘the Real D.C.’: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/dining/14wash.html

Ms. Cashion calls H Street “a kind of post racial Georgetown, as it once was before the national retailers staked their claims there.” She’s consulting on the Mexican menu for the H Street Country Club, which is supposed to open in February. It will feature an irony-laden miniature golf course that requires putters to work through the swinging briefcases of K Street lawyers and shoot around Marion Barry, the former mayor and councilman.

jesus christ on a cracker^^^^

seriously. this was so bad.

i am so not reading that article again tomorrow when i get the paper

let's just start with the hyper-obsession with the race of every person interviewed and each neighborhood in this city. what was this story about - a demographic breakdown by ward? who writes this shit?

and that line about best Belgian beer selection in the city is so laughable. In a city where most restaurants have a strong Belgian beer selection. I feel like she went to one place, saw they had Chimay on tap, was super impressed, and deemed them "the best". an entire article made up of throwaway lines. Congrats NYT!

Some people call it the Atlas District, others call it lower Capitol Hill and still others say it is Trinidad. The area had 22 killings in 2008. “I don’t care what you call it, it’s still the ’hood,” Ms. Clark said.

H St bugs me out, I hardly ever went there even when I lived 5 blocks away, but.. really poor neighborhoods just around the corner & then you have a place like Granville Moore's where you can't get a beer for less than $8. hated worrying about muggings and break-ins but I guess they happen here @ dupont a lot and I just don't pay attention

hey I DIED, did you know Marvin was another quasi speakeasy? LOLOL

i don't understand how playing miniature golf with Marion Berry and briefcases equals irony

see, a bar serving very expensive drinks to hill types is not enough like a country club, that you have to make a theme of it being a country club

a cool, P. M. Dawn feeling

AAAAAAARGH THAT ARTICLE

COULD REFUTE 240% OF IT

FUCK YOOUUUUUUUUUU

?? i have heard a lot of music in there but never heard any p.m. dawn, i dunno. p.m. dawn are okay, it's just not a connection i would come up with.

(x-post) that is the situation as I see it

(x-post) this city needs more PM Dawn

lol NYT articles about DC are always so special

this city needs more PM Dawn

^^ this. more early 90's hip hop/r&b anywhere, i got four compilations of new jack swing not long ago.. hadn't heard some of those songs since 1992 <3 <3 <3

"GILLIAN CLARK calls fried chicken the curse of the black chef"

hmm that is so interesting as your restaurant offered a fried chicken dinner for the four years it was open

Ms. Clark’s parents are from Panama. She graduated from a Long Island, N.Y., high school. She enrolled in a French-influenced cooking school and was first taught by French chefs. But whenever she opens a restaurant, people want her to fry some chicken.

“I’d be more at home making knish,” she said.

wow because you had a fried chicken night but never a knish night

I would like the early 90s fried chicken/r&b dinner why because it look so interesting

Later this year, Ms. Clark plans to open Georgia Street Meeting House in her working-class neighborhood in Northwest Washington.

... in the ground floor of a luxury condo development

knish are superfrançais come on

“It’s such an interesting time for the real D.C., because for years there has been a whole lot of nothing going on,” Ms. Clark said.

yeah the years when "nothing" was going on was when you opened your first restaurant, when property values rose, when chefs planned the outposts they have now, when developers courted restaurant tenants to make an article like this possible.

Diane Gross and her husband, Khalid Pitts, just wanted to live, work and eat out in their neighborhood, which bridges Logan Circle and U Street.

Initially, their brokers didn’t get it. “When we were looking for a space, they all wanted to show us the Hill,” Ms. Gross said.

Diane u a liar I have worked with commercial real estate brokers during this time and it was all DOWNTOWN and GEORGETOWN, the hill was way back on the list.

p.s. I love the drinks at your bar, though

guys you know what I can't WAIT to see what matt yglesias has to say about this article!!! maybe mcardle will weigh in too

hang on did I say I can't WAIT? HA HA I MEANT I CAN'T WHITE

"That not only means black eating next to white, but gay next to straight and young next to old" - NYT on Cork, 01/09

"Black, white, straight, gay, young and not-so-young: They're all gathered on U Street NW in what looks as if it's been around for decades rather than merely one year." - Washington Post on Marvin (three blocks north of Cork), 10/08

I mean seriously

I don't care if you're black, white, that guy in the riddler suit or a gym twink! You can eat chicken in this town.

Downstairs, where a huge folk art image of Mr. Gaye dominates one wall, the restaurant feels like a stylish American speakeasy.

... a speakeasy with wide open windows and a sign. Maybe if you want to write about something you think of as a speakeasy you will write about the place next door. OH WAIT you are writing about that this Sunday.

TOMBOT OTM re: riddler suit

One good way to see the changes around Washington is to jump in Ms. Clark’s car for a tour, which I did last week. She starts out with a stop at Columbia Heights Coffee. Five years ago, Ms. Clark said, good espresso from a La Cimbali machine was unimaginable in this neighborhood.

please to note two people shot within a stone's throw of this place in the last two nights.

yeah, well

the espresso is that good

Ann Cashion, a chef who has helped start many food careers in Washington, including Ms. Clark’s, lives there. The neighborhood, she said, “is truly still black, Latino and Caucasian in almost equal measure, despite the introduction of lots of new housing and D.C.’s only Target and Bed Bath & Beyond.”

No another Bed Bath & Beyond opened three years ago on 7th St. Also the restaurant you sold last year that still carries your name is not very good despite the $25+ entrees.

Columbia Heights vs. the setting of Road House

ed the car toward an even tougher neighborhood, bouncing over a few dozen blocks of rough asphalt northeast of the Capitol. Some people call it the Atlas District, others call it lower Capitol Hill and still others say it is Trinidad. The area had 22 killings in 2008.

“I don’t care what you call it, it’s still the ’hood,” Ms. Clark said.

okay this is actually incredibly OTM, from personal experience

oh shit, are they writing about the place next door this sunday? shit. it was full on a wednesday last time i was around there. what days can you actually go in there without a reservation any more?

who the fuck DOESN'T know that Trinidad is our Little Beirut

One of the most successful is Granville Moore’s, where people line up on weekend nights to work through big, steaming bowls of large mussels simmered with bacon and wine, and dip perfect hot fries into curry mayonnaise. The place also has what might be the best Belgian beer list in the district.

No, Brasserie Beck, which is only a mile away, has the best Belgian beer list within 2000 miles at least, followed by about 5 places in Philly.

lol daria I swear to god maur33n d0wd is going there this weekend

Tina I am very much enjoying your fisking of this horrible waste of everyone's time A+++

Maureen Down is going to Trinidad? Praise the Lord.

Ms. Cashion calls H Street “a kind of post racial Georgetown, as it once was before the national retailers staked their claims there.”

lol. just lol.

It will feature an irony-laden miniature golf course that requires putters to work through the swinging briefcases of K Street lawyers and shoot around Marion Barry, the former mayor and councilman.

FYI this place was supposed to open 18 months ago, and will suck ass when it does.