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Image: Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly. We continue our breakdown of the 2020 Washingtonian Top 100 Very Best Restaurants. In our first post, we identified the places all the critics generally agree on. For this second post, we start looking at places where one critic is an outlier from the others. First up, The Washington […]
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Image: Frank Sinatra in Lady in Cement (1968). Last year we did an in-depth breakdown of the annual list of the Top 100 Very Best Restaurants done by Washingtonian magazine (See HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE). Now the 2020 version is out, and our research department has been working overtime to dissect it. We […]
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Image: Kirk Douglas This week we posted two reviews, corrected our dessert/desert mistake in our Dolan Uyghur post, and made no changes to the recommended restaurant list – though there are two new additions slated for next week, so follow us on social media ( FB, Insta, Twitter) for updates! In news, we take on […]
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Image: Lauren Bacall (1944) D.C. may feel tumultuous right now, but it was a pretty calm week in the dining world. A week after Michelin released its guide, Tom Sietsema did a 20th anniversary Fall Dining Guide. Here is the week that was on our site and some news to flag from the world of […]
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Over the last two weeks Michelin has announced its 2020 guide star restaurants for D.C. and its Bib Gourmand selections. After a couple days to mull it over, I have some thoughts. For reference, here are the Michelin star restaurants (Bib Gourmands at the bottom of the post). In parenthesis is our site rating for […]
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Image: Fred Astaire, 1939. It was a light week of action on the site, but a big news week for the D.C. dining scene. Here is your recap of the week that was. Updates to the Recommended Restaurant List: Removed: Little Havana – Alfred Solis said he would give his well-regarded Cuban spot 6 months […]
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Image: Frank Sinatra in High Society (1956) This week we added, we subtracted, we multiplied the people that like orange wine and we divided past from present at a new Italian spot in an old Italian spot spot. Updates to the Recommended Restaurant List: Added: Gravitas – This post-industrial, New American Ivy City spot is […]
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Photo: Washington Post Food Section New Hire? The rise of artificial intelligence (A.I.) has led some to fear the consequences, one being the fear we won’t be able to tell the difference between things done by a computer and a real person. Now we have a test case! It looks like the Washington Post tried […]
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