Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

Also Olde Queen's campus is pretty to walk around but also very small and also lol at my recommendations of fun stuff to do being "eat food that a drunk 19 year old would eat".

Stuff opens and closes so quickly there that it's probably pretty different from 2 years ago. If you've got an afternoon to kill you could stroll down George St to Easton and walk up that, but there probably won't be much besides cheap food and awful bars. It's a city lacking any sort of hidden treasures.

This is my second trip to NB in as many months, and it is actually kind of growing on me! I have not yet gotten over to campus as I am supposedly working, but maybe this evening or tomorrow. A Fat Bitch sounds right up my alley!

Anyway sorry DC thread for so much NJ talk.

heard there's some pretty decent ethiopian in NB if you're missing DC

Dude there is an ethiopian restaurant on this very block, but I am stuck here with yet another husband who has injera issues!

Where is the man who seeks injera? Where?

Makeda iirc; supposed to be pricey but good I think? My friend used to work there

^^^that's the one!

Going to Frog and Peach tonight; excited for Fat Bitches tomorrow!

That post is basically "

Wait I was trying to come up w a good simile and accidentally hit post! But it's like saying "I'm wearing my Cartier diamonds tonight and I'm so excited to try out my new Claire's charm bracelet tomorrow!!"

hahah

It is soooo hot out, so when I go out for lunch I don't want to slog too far. If I want to try out this "jersey" "pizza," should I go to Angel's, Douglas, Filippo's, or Panico's?

Oh and Frog and Peach was closed for summer vacation but we are going to try again tonight. Spouse's work is picking up the tab up to $75, so we might as well. New Brunswick seems so inexpensive compared to DC! The beer prices are amaaaaaaaazing.

Are these Peter Greenaway movies at the National Gallery (in DC not NB...ha) this weekend worth seeing:

http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/greenaway.shtm#remjaccuse

Though Peter Greenaway (born 1942, Wales) is one of Europe's most cerebral and eccentric filmmakers, he was trained as a painter. Finding correlations between painting and filmmaking in his own practice, Greenaway believes that cinema should move away from "the text" (or script) as its time-honored underpinning and instead be based solely on images. Residing now in Holland, he has embarked on a series of idiosyncratic works about Dutch art.

Rembrandt's "J'Accuse"
July 7 at 4:00PM

Nightwatching
July 8 at 4:30PM

I've never seen them, and I'm pretty ambivalent about Greenaway in general, but those both sound kind of cool.

That new print of Celine and Julie Go Boating is playing at the National Gallery next weekend (14th) if anyone has a spare 190 minutes.

xp oh then for sure, tap that shit! Frog & Peach is supposed to be really great. Douglas is terrible and pretty much just for ppl too lazy to walk to Filippo's, but Filippo's isn't that good either. Panico is excellent but kinda gourmet; if you want an excellent cheap slice I always loved King's, PJ's, and Ta Ta's (<--actual name) though they might be a bit of a hike from the Heldo

Oh! And La Familia! All of those but Ta Ta's are on Easton though :( but srsly cannot believe I forgot this but the boli's at Stuff Yer Face are probably the closest thing NB has to an institution next to fat sandwiches and they're excellent

Has anyone tried the architect designed miniature golf course(s) in the Building Museum yet? And why was I DIED not asked to contribute?

More weekend stuff I am thinking about: Chuck Brown day Saturday at the Folklife Fest with the Junkyard Band and others. 106 degrees in the heat forecast for Saturday but under the Folklife Fest tents on the mall it will feel like only 101 or so.

wait that's a thing? I have to go to that tomorrow while I'm still here.

I DIED would have contributed to a mini-golf clubhouse/bar, I bet!

http://www.nbm.org/programs-lectures/summer/play-mini-golf.html

Don't let your summer get stuck in the rough—combine your love for the building arts with a putter, ball, and one-of-a-kind mini-golf course designed and built by some of the leading architects, landscape architects, and contractors in the Washington area. For two glorious months at the National Building Museum, play holes inspired by architectural and landscape-oriented themes. Challenge your friends and family to a round of mini-golf in air-conditioned comfort, packed with enough fun to make Augusta National Golf Club green with envy!

Tee off when the course opens on July 4 at 10 am and play every day through Labor Day during Museum hours. The Museum will also be open late on two special evenings until 9 pm: Thursday, July 26 and Thursday, August 23.

$5 per round per person. With purchase of full-price Museum exhibition admission ticket, the price per round is reduced to $3. Museum members play for $3. Those who want to see the course without playing can do so as long as they have exhibition admission tickets.

Tee off when the course opens on July 4 at 10 am and play every day through Labor Day during Museum hours.

i want to play there EVERY DAY! it would be fun to really master the course, but also to be really intense about it, doing the tiger woods fist pump after particularly good shots. and wear a red shirt every day.

with much love in my heart for all fake sports, i completely support this idea

every time i go to the red derby i complain about them getting rid of the pool table - yes, it was a piece of crap, yes, you were always at risk of putting out someone's eye or knocking a drink over, but i was getting scary good at learning all its quirks and dead spots. rip...

I'd have done a 2012 design trends minigolf hole w/ reclaimed wood and edison bulbs and subway tile and concrete floors and vintage pig butcher's charts

We'll have to do a kickstarter or find a space somewhere

But what will be on the 2012 food trends menu at the minigolf clubhouse?

sliders

For real though what foods are up-and-coming/"breaking" right now? Also I DIED have you ever had zhajianmiang (it's like Chinese pork bolognese sorta)? I think it's maybe top 5 most delicious foods of all time, not joking.

Zhajiangmian, rather

I haven't had that but would love to! I do love me some dandan noodles which sound like they're in the same family tree though no super close. Chinese restaurants in the DC area are pretty lacking generally.

For up and coming food trends, hmm.

eggs, goat, aspic, bourbon, cauliflower, black garlic, soils, pork rinds, foraged ingredients trickling down to more traditional high end restaurants in a big way, house made sodas, house made vermouths and other fortified wines

For up and coming food trends, hmm.

eggs, goat, aspic, bourbon, cauliflower, black garlic, soils, pork rinds, foraged ingredients trickling down to more traditional high end restaurants in a big way, house made sodas, house made vermouths and other fortified wines

ASPIC?! omg, you're joking. I just learned what aspic was a week ago when this stupid bougie lady in a Cukor film from 1934 was wigging out bcz her cook dropped the aspic she was going to serve at her v fancy dinner party. Also yeah I've been seeing black garlic a lot but still have not had it. I want garlic scapes to get trendy! Hasn't bourbon been stylish/trendy for like 10 yrs? Also foraging is already ridic/eye roll inducing to me. I am all for eggs though! More shakshouka at brunch places plz. And there's a place in Philly famous for its dandan noodles and they get a lot of comparisons to the hand drawn w/ pork soy sauce ones (what they call zhajiangmian at the noodle place; also it's $5.50 bro!!) but I think dandan has peanut sauce in it which is gross to me

I love the idea of food trends so much but they are NEVER priced affordable which keeps me from really getting to experience them often. Even food trucks are pricey. Part of me wants to open up a very unique but also cheap restaurant so ppl like me had access to this shit but I also feel like what's the point when you can just make more money by charging more and ppl will still pay.

How do you learn abt this stuff? Do you have food blogs worth reading?

I've been predicting an aspic comeback for years and it's finally happening! Result of emphasis on nose to tail cooking and in many ways a reaction against blah comfort food trends with a return to classic technique.

Garlic scapes are hella trendy, same with just about any shoots and stuff in a similar family (hello ramps duh). I'm all for super trendiness of limited time seasonal products, especially if somewhere down the line it gets people to think of things like tomatoes as being seasonally available instead of shit ones most of the year.

Dandan noodles don't usually have peanut, but every place does them a bit differently. I went to Han Dynasty last year when I was in Philly, which I think is the place you're talking about, and was pretty disappointed.

Lucky for you eggs are an affordable food trend, and easy to prepare at home too!

I read Eater and a few other blogs but mostly just go out a lot and a lot of my friends are restaurant people.

Yeah, it's Han Dynasty. Is lowbrow-made-highbrow food a trend per se or just a framework in which specific food trends come and go? Or is it maybe like a medium-term trend umbrella with shorter term ones in it?

It's closest to your last theory, I think it's part of the death of traditional stuffy fine dining and a new approachability but we'll see how things develop. Lowbrow-made-highbrow has the ability to engage people who would never be into pike quenelles.

106 degrees, filthy air. PANIC (please don't)

Hey dudes, just a heads up: my wife and I will be in D.C. at the end of August (24-28). She works in the international nonprofit field, so naturally all of her dream jobs are there -- so the trip is in part to see what the city's actually like, in case we might someday want to move. (Neither of us has been to D.C. since we were kids.)

Anyway, I know it's a few weeks down the road, but it would be cool to see some ILXors while we're there. We're staying at the Tabard Inn, which I noticed, after reading this entire thread yesterday (Jesus Christ), has been spoken of approvingly. Or at least the restaurant/bar has. Anyway!

Tabard Inn is great all around!

please do better at meeting up with ppl than I did ;_;

Tabard is awesome, will totally have all the drinks with you there, or anywhere.

DJP next time stay loooooooonger!

Cool, that's good to hear. I'll monitor this thread and check back in when we have a better idea of our plans.

We're staying at the Tabard Inn, which I noticed, after reading this entire thread yesterday (Jesus Christ), has been spoken of approvingly. Or at least the restaurant/bar has. Anyway!

one of my good friends is the bartender there! and yeah, it's great. i'll definitely try to stop by when you're there!

which bartender, Z S?

Tim B!

ah I do not know T B

He's great! mid-20s, blonde hair, looks sort of like a 1940s movie star. also a hell of a bartender!

I love Tim B!

Not sure I can make it anyway, but any thoughts on this Hong Kong movie at 7 at the Freer tonight?

Like the famous Henry David Thoreau essay with which it shares a title, Life without Principle is a warning about the dangers of greed. This tense drama from veteran director Johnnie To (Vengeance, Mad Detective) taps into the zeitgeist by telling three linked stories of Hong Kong’s money-obsessed culture. A financial analyst (Denise Ho) pushes high-risk investments on her unsuspecting clients, a smalltime gangster (Lau Ching Won) plays the Chinese stock market to raise quick bail money for a friend, and a humble cop (Richie Jen) finds himself in need of dough when his wife puts a down payment on an expensive pad. Their fates intertwine thanks to a bag containing $5 million in stolen money and a stock market crash. (Dir.: Johnnie To, 2011, 107 min., Cantonese with English subtitles)

DC 2012:

H Street NE now has a place to satisfy your cravings for whole wheat-crusted pizza with mushroom truffle sauce

fact: nobody on H Street has ever craved a whole-wheat crusted pizza with mushroom truffle sauce. I know this because nobody in the WOLRD has ever craved a whole-wheat crusted pizza with mushroom truffle sauce.

crap, would have gone to that movie

Ugh, Julie and Celine Go Boating is on earlier than I thought. Got some things in the morning, plus train is down between Braddock Road and Reagan. I can see missing it.

waou, of rivette i've actually only seen la religieuse, maybe i will try to catch this now that my plans tomorrow got cancelled