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Image: Jean Harlow and Cary Grant in Suzy (1936) There is no way to sugarcoat the dining news this week. So many restaurants held on through the last two years that we were surprised. Now a combination of factors (Omicron, inflation, supply chain, and more) are hitting. That does not mean there are not good […]
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Image: Couple walking in London (1954). During the past eight months there has been a strange tone in the local press covering the dining scene. While not ignoring the catastrophic impact on the industry, there has been a breezy veneer to the piece. “Check out this cool pop-up!” “The best places for takeout!” “Dr. Fauci’s […]
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Image: Frederick Douglass, Unidentified Artist, oil on canvas (c. 1844). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution For the last few weeks the words of Frederick Douglass have been floating in and out of our national conversation. In the District this has been in regard to the statute in Lincoln Park. On Saturdays, we tend to post […]
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Image: Stanko Abadžic, “Curiosity” (Prague 2000). Our D.C. Dining Guide’s Plan Going Forward We would like to update you on what we have been doing with this site for the last couple months and our plans going forward. Covid forced the restaurant industry to take stock and our plucky little site must adapt as well. […]
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Image: Marching to Black Lives Matter Plaza under Scott Circle Two weeks ago, among the thousands who took to the streets to protest injustice and inequality, I was struck how Washington, D.C. can be so rich in history that many may not even realize it. Those in the streets protesting under the banner of Black […]
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Image: Marcello Mastroianni There are many ways to help those in the restaurant industry that have been hit disproportionately hard by the public health crisis. We rightfully praise medical professionals for going to work to help us through this. It should not be lost that the restaurant industry and its employees’ livelihoods (along with many […]
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Image: Seine in the Mist – Kees Scherer (Paris 1955) This week we wrapped up our four part series breaking down the Washingtonian Top 100 for 2020. Last week we did posts looking at the restaurants that all the critics agree about and the ones where Tom Sietsema of the Washington Post breaks from the […]
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Image: Adolfo Celi and Sean Connery, Thunderball, 1965 In our first post breaking down the Washingtonian Top 100 Very Best Restaurants we identified the places all the critics generally agree on. In Part Two, we looked at places where Tom Sietsema of the Post is the outlier from other critics. For Part Three, we looked […]
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