Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

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.

Just reading the tidbits you've reposted here makes me want to move across the anacostia river or something. Jesus. RIP U ST U USED TO BE COOL

oh no, i despise her. can some people not let her in, maybe? pleeeease?

ny-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.

“The D.C. culture has evolved now to a point where we can be proud of it,” said Lee T. Wheeler, the artist who designed the course.

u are the problem, not the solution

(xpost) no I am going to hit on her an convince her men are necessary

And no one knows whether the economic downturn will stop the restaurant revival cold.

oh actually everyone knows the answer to this and it is YES

... just based on my experience in talking to many more restaurant and bar owners than were interviewed in this article.

i want to run into her and be like "maur33n who? sorry i don't even know who you are"

also ESPN2 is replaying redskins-niners 1983 NFC title game dudes! john riggins! darrell green! the hogs! JOE MONTANA

daria sundays thru tuesdays are cool there still. No guarantees after inaguration blowout 2k9.

yes! Brasserie Beck. I was going to say that clearly has the best Belgian beer selection in town - but was blinded by my rage from this asinine use of column space. and that is a very high bar to cross on any day with the NYT.

http://www.dcfoodies.com/2009/01/beer-news-good.html

this really sucks for me and Tombot as we enjoy many single beers from a variety of craft brewers. Argh. I live in Ward 1 and not exactly sure which parts of the ward are covered by this.

btw when Pizzeria Paradiso Dupont moves to its new home a block east it'll have a 10 tap birreria!

Wuz reading on the city paper young and hungry food blog about a New York writer for politico.com I think, who was supposed to come up with 10 DC restaurants worth eating at, and she listed only 8. She said that was all that she could come up with that met her NYC standards.

she writes one of those every couple years, no worries

sucks about the single-beer ban. i bought 750ml bottles quite a lot when living in dc. though usually from chevy chase liquors on conn. ave. that's ward 3 right?

i might move back to dc later this year. i miss it more than i thought i would.

yeah that's ward 3

Is that roller derby girl art exhibit at a gallery (forgot the name)worth seeing? How about the Jubilee exhibit at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum? I haven't been there in years. Heard Texas Fred talking about the Jubilee exhibit on WPFW and the NY Times just mentioned it.

Cory Oberndorfer’s paintings combine the visual language of graphic design with the subculture of flat track roller derby. Oberndorfer elevates roller derby players to iconic status with bright colors and simplified, stripped-down forms. While having the look of mass production and silkscreen, these paintings are actually meticulously hand-painted. at the gallery at flashpoint

http://www.flashpointdc.org/venues/art_gallery.html

Is it quiet enough yet to go to Ben's or Ben's next door?

No on Ben's but you can get lucky at Next Door. I was able to poach a couple of seats from a young couple that were on their way home Monday night. Ben's is pretty much our Wailing Wall or the Kaaba at this point.

like, you circle the structure seven times, and then you get a half smoke.

Bill Burton, the press secretary for Mr. Obama’s campaign who is following him to the White House, predicted changes in the Washington restaurant scene’s pecking order.

Already, he said, Cork, a relatively new restaurant in the Logan Circle area of town, is becoming a popular spot for young, incoming administration hands, many of whom have moved to the neighborhood in recent weeks. 1-14 NY Times

please don't get me started again

lol terps

DUKE SUCKS

note - ben's chili bowl has calmed down a little bit, uh.. only about a 20 minute wait to get (vegetarian) chili fries around midnight? i couldn't really eat too many of them. it was nice stopping by though, i used to go there a lot in 01-02. they have a big obama picture on the wall now.

Visiting from 27 Jan-7 Feb, mostly working/compulsory worksocialising but if anyone's free and wants to have a coffee/drink would be great, esp on 30th/31st. Moving out properly at the end of Feb, if the human resources dept manages to work out what I'm allowed to ship before I have to get out of my house. Feel a bit weird announcing my impending arrival since I'm about 9/10ths lurker and 1/10th poster, so consider this spam from some random Britisher.

SOME NOTES

1. a surprisingly good brunch option is sette osteria next to the benetton/G-STAR RAW on connecticut/20th - go there, get the poached eggs on toasted bagel, order a side of mozzarella and a side of proscuitto and stack your own benedict, plus, excellent hot bloody mary and no crowd

2. marvin is okay, I recommend the allagash tripel since their price for it is pretty comparable to what you'd pay in a store. Momo's still has the best burgers around U st for some reason

3. I think everybody officially knows about Next Door now, oh well, more room at the saloon?

4. Carson from Queer Eye was hanging outside Busboys & Poets this afternoon. No idea.

Welcome ljublajana; would be lovely to get a drink with you upon your arrival, just post with your availability/approximate location as the date gets closer. Please note also that ILXDC prefers the term "britishes" to "britisher" and thus expect to be addressed accordingly.

What is this "Momo's" and why would I eat a cooked hamburger when I could eat raw hamburger at Dukem?

xpost - thanks, will do that. Approx location will be Dupont. What's the singular of britishes, or will I exist in the plural?

"britishes" is both the singular AND the plural. As in "LOLbritishes be wanking over soccer again especially that one britishes dude MattDC."

Americanses
Americaners
Amerikles
or simply Americas

Magic People of the Eagles

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