Tabla

Image: Khinkali. Dill with it. Last Updated: March 2023 Overview: Tabla serves Georgian comfort food like big chewy meat-filled soup dumplings and flatbread vessels of melted cheese with other toppings in a casual setting.  If that is what you are looking for, then we suggest going.  Or even if it is not what you are […]

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Week in Review – 3/26/2023

Image: Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr, Comrade X (1940). Welcome readers to our weekly recap of activity on our site and other dining news. It is a relatively light week in the news, but we did manage to post about a couple recommended spots. Natural wine seems to be like chum that sets off a […]

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Pappe

Image: Power Puffs. Overview: There is a trick that restaurants can pull off.  With just a few touches and accents they can make you feel removed from the grit of the world outside.  Pappe’s interior does this.  The high ceiling with draped boldly-colored fabrics and warm lighting set a mood.  It doesn’t transport you to […]

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Seylou Bakery & Mill

Image: The goods. Last Updated: March 2023 Overview: Steps from the D.C. Convention Center is a working bakery and mill with a storefront café.  The importance of the baking to the shop is evident in the way the space for the oven juts into the seating area for those munching on pastries.  The bakery is […]

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Week in Review – 3/19/2023

Image: Enzo Sellerio, Shipyard Workers (Palermo, Sicily. 1962). Spring is almost here dearest readers, though winter hardly left its mark on these parts. Ironically, California which only has the two seasons of sun and rain actually got a real winter. Soon the tourists will be upon us. With that in mind, we continue to freshen […]

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Bar Spero

Image: Rib-eye, squash, sunchokes. Last Updated: March 2023 Overview: The setting and the food is modern with playful touches.  The dishes can be small, precise, and eaten in a single bite.  Or they can be mammoth and tackled only with more than one person.  In the same dinner you may pause to slowly savor the […]

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Week in Review – 3/12/2023

Image: Errol Flynn in The Perfect Specimen (1937). Welcome to our weekly recap of activity on our site and a roundup of dining news from D.C. and further afield. A light week in the dining guide with only one addition and no closings(!). Though there appears to be much work on the horizon to keep […]

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Pho Viet

Image: Beef and Broth. Last Updated: March 2023 Overview: The accumulated knick-knacks may obscure entrance, but keep looking until you find it.  Pho Viet sits on the north side of Columbia Heights and, as the name indicates, serves pho in a finely-tuned broth that sings.  The bowls can be ordered with various meats on top […]

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