A Navigation Tool for Dining in DC
Image: Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944). This week we added a spot to our dining guide and several were updated – some good news and some sad news. It was also a big news week. Local chains start to go national, FedEx walks back its ID policy, Albi gets some love, and we […]
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Image: Jamie Lee Curtis c. 1978. Lots of recent news and food for thought in the D.C. and larger dining scene. This week we added a spot and revisited a favorite. There was also news of favorites coming back and one not returning. So buckle up and read on! Updates to Recommended Restaurant List Added: […]
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Image: Bert Hardy. A young couple hold hands outside the Granada Cinema, 1st April 1957. This week we added a local, mini-chain of pizza joints to our dining guide for D.C. and revisited a power dining spot. In news around town, POTUS dines out and the Post’s restaurant critic seems to not understand that he […]
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Image: Dmitri Kessel, Milano (1948). This week on our D.C. dining site we added two Capitol Hill restaurants that feel comfy and are good, recent additions to the neighborhood. Locally, José Andrés makes news on many fronts. Nationally, Eater ponders the role of the critic and we have thoughts. It’s a big week for ragu […]
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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: 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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Image: Agnes Moorehead with Humphrey Bogart in Dark Passage (Delmer Daves, 1947). via We Had Faces Then. We have been breaking down the 2020 edition of the Washingtonian Top 100 Very Best Restaurants. In the first post we identified the places all the critics generally agree on. In Part Two, we looked at places where […]
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