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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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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Week in Review – 3/5/2023

Image: Excelsior Paper, L’Equipe Photo © Agence Roger-Viollet Dearest Gentle Reader, we have a overflowing basket of news items for you today. We also need to correct an oversight. Last week we thanked those who have liked and retweeted our posts to help us scrape our way to 1000 followers. We were remiss in not […]

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Week in Review – 2/26/2023

Image: Frank and pancakes (1953). Dearest Gentle Reader, this week we marked a milestone and posted about one of our splurge worthy restaurants. There were many interesting things in the news, most prominently the influencer debate broke open. The economy sends mixed signals, and we have yet to resolve how we treat labor. All that […]

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Week in Review – 2/19/2023

Image: David Seymour, Rome, Street Market (1952). Dearest Gentle Reader, thank you for joining us for the weekly summary of dining news from D.C. and elsewhere, as well as a recap of activity on our site. It was a light week on D.C. news, so we engage in some speculation and suggest a story or […]

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