July 2009
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72. Equinox
Last night I stopped by Equinox with the lovely and talented Helen. It is located on a shady and quiet stretch of Connecticut Avenue, which I will now dub Washingtonian alley since there are three former and current Washingtonian Top 100 restaurants on this short block. Though Equinox is on the first floor of an office building and next to a carry-out deli, it has a lovely shaded patio for a few...
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Gentlemen, Start Your Engines →
The list of participating Restaurant Week 2009 restaurants is up on washingtonpost.com. I’ve already made eight reservations. I intend to make more. Unfortunately the obscenely expensive places (Cityzen, Citronelle, BLT Steak) are suspiciously absent, but there are many many good options this year. Go forth and reserve!
Restaurant week is August 24th to August 30th.
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69. PS 7's
No need to rush to Opentable for your reservation to PS 7’s. In addition to us, there was one table of be-shorted tourists and a table of very drunk ladies out for a birthday dinner. I’m guessing (and hoping) that PS 7’s has more of a lunch following, because otherwise they must be laundering money in the back to stay in business. Perhaps they wanted to make sure we didn’t...
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87. Ravi Kabob
When we went to Ravi Kabob, my friend kept giving me a hard time because I wasn’t taking any pictures of the restaurant. Well, here’s the deal: if I took pictures of it, you would never want to eat there. It obviously has the same interior decorator as those generic Asian restaurants in Chinatown with names that are suspicious double entendres. Linoleum floors and plastic forks do not...
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97. Surfside
I have to confess something: I eat at Surfside all the time. Like, every other week. Yes, it’s in my neighborhood, but it is so worthwhile that I would drive across town and even parallel park for it. I’d even pay to park. And that’s saying something since I regularly take the bus for $1.25 and 40 minutes so I don’t have to pay $2 to park. And on that note, I have an...
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61. Brasserie Beck
Here’s the thing, Brasserie Beck is in a weird location. I don’t even really know what to call the area it’s located in—11th and K St. isn’t really Mt. Vernon Triangle, but it’s not Downtown either. And though it’s set among office buildings, I can’t imagine there is tons of foot traffic during the day. And I’m guessing the kids from the...
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99. Jackson's Mighty Fine Food
The last time I was in Reston Town Center, it wasn’t much more than a Clyde’s and a movie theater. Now it is out and proud with its chain store goodness. And I love it. True, I could easily go to the mall and get a JCrew and a Gap and an Anthropologie in the same place, but in Reston it’s OUTSIDE. And there are lots and lots of ice cream options there, so I think we have a...
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This Critic's 12.5 Best Dishes
In honor of the halfway mark fast approaching (only a couple more to go!), I’ve composed my list of the best dishes I’ve had so far. And since I’m only halfway through the list, I did half as many dishes as Washingtonian (they-25, me-12.5). How did I make that work? Well I’m just a math genius. Oh, and I only ate half the Mac and Cheese for Two at Westend Bistro.
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62. Minh's
I have driven by Minh’s no less than two hundred times in my life, and have never even noticed it. It’s not inconspicuous in that hole-in-the-wall-secret-restaurant way (a la Tacqueria Nationale), but in that I-wonder-if-they-deliver way. I find that restaurants with neon tube depictions of noodle bowls and flashing open signs are not usually too gourmet. Just like the neon...
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Those Google Alerts I set up finally came in handy.