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Image: A balanced meal. Last Updated: June 2023 Overview: Macon’s name is a geographic double-entendre, referring both to southern cooking (Macon, Ga.) and French (Macon, France). In some dishes one or the other will show up, the classic chunky stew of ratatouille being French, the shrimp and grits being southern. Other dishes will blend the […]
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Image: Rarebit and Rye Last Updated: June 2023 Overview: Fight Club is one of a handful of sandwich spots that emerged from the Covid-era restaurant pivots. In this case it was the talented team at Beuchert’s that started doing it as a take-out option out of the restaurant. When things settled down, they took over […]
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Image: Katharine Hepburn and John Barrymore, publicity photo for A Bill of Divorcement (1932). Dearest Gentle Reader, this week’s post covers two weeks of recapping as we took off the three-day weekend. Sadly, the extra time did not mean more activity on our site, increasing our backlog of work to do. We assure you, it […]
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Image: Saffron Taglierini Last Updated: May 2023 Overview: Tortino has been putting out classic, reliable Italian food for a decade. It is not fancy or flashy. It does not lobby hard on social media. It is not in a buzzy neighborhood to get pulled into a Washingtonian list. But it is busy feeding people who […]
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Image: Tony Vaccaro, Horse eating hay, ruins of Cassino, Italy (1946) There was little activity on our site this week, but lots of interesting dining news to flag both locally and around the world. So please read on for all the goodies. Updates to D.C. Recommended Restaurant List No additions or revisits posted this week. […]
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Image: Vivien Leigh and Warren Beatty, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961). We thought this was going to be a light week of content for our weekly recap of dining news, but late additions added some beef. Including a Post editorial on fake beef. The biggest news may be the botched James Beard attempt […]
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Image: Arepa, dinner version. Last Updated: May 2023 Overview: Certain places find a niche that didn’t really exist before. (Did we know we needed a hummus bowl spot before Little Sesame?) The Royal is an all-day café that starts serving coffee and breakfast at 10:00. At lunch the menu rolls over to focus on small […]
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Image: Unknown Photographer, Terrace at Amsterdam Central Station. Dearest Gentle Reader, we took a week off for travel, but are back to cover the last two weeks in dining news from D.C. and elsewhere. We are also late getting this posted today, so let’s get on with it! Updates to the D.C. Recommended Restaurant List […]
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