their peach cobbler is right on time iirc
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
The maffe (peanut sauce stew) was good. The few online reviews of Libe's said the Yassa was just ok. We bought juice drinks too--They gave us a ginger juice drink in a plastic bottle with no label and a pomegranate tasting one in a plastic bottle also.
Not that big a fan of Libe's, it's passable though. The "pomegranate tasting one," if it was purplish, was most likely bissap, cold hibscus tea. For people interested, the Takoma metro is at least 1 mile away, but the Georgia Ave buses (70,71,79) stop right in front of the restaurant.
― Ivor, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Georgia Brown's is pretty $$$ but the portions are huge. Maybe it was a good restaurant once, but it must have been before my time.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
x-postI think it was Bissap. Yea, I guess Aunt Libe's is south of the takoma metro and too far north of the other one.
I'm starting my quest to try D.C.'s various West and East (and wherever else) African restaurants. I mean I ate at Bukom years ago, some other place out in Langley Park, Roger Miller's in Silver Spring and have had Ethiopian, but have not yet been to Keur Damel in Silver Spring (just opened this year- Senegalese I think); or Akosomboh; or Sumah's Carryout.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i just watched an hour-long pbs show about breakfast spots in dc. damn, i want some eggs now!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Are there even an hour's worth of breakfast spots in DC? Never really thought of here as much of a breakfast town.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Was just reading a Washingtonian e-mail from their food critic Todd Kliman who used to be at the City Paper and he just wrote in response to a reader looking for a leisurely weekday breakfast:
Todd Kliman: This just isn't a breakfast town, unfortunately. You've got high-end hotel dining and some greasy spoons, and not much of anything in between.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
That might over-generalize a bit
they did both the high-end hotels and greasy spoons but also stretched to some other things like art and soul and diners out in fairfax.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Tim Carman, the Washington City Paper's food critic is leaving the City Paper to join the Washington Post's Food section staff.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
One in five renters and one in seven homeowners in the Washington area spend more than half their income on housing, according to census figures, a proportion that housing experts consider a severe burden.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/27/AR2010112702782.html
Statistics supporting what we sadly already know
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
This is why I'm going to be living with my mother for another 5 or so months.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Guys why am I watching "Non-Stop Foodies" on this weird DC channel (4.2 for those of us without the cables) instead of football?
Am currently being instructed on how to eat mussels at Brasserie Beck.
― quincie, Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Apparently I am supposed to DIP MY BREAD omg wtf
― quincie, Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I should really calculate my %income spent on housing but ignorance is bliss amirite
― quincie, Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
yep.
This year's Washington Redskins mostly not worth watching
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 November 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
This year's?
― quincie, Monday, 29 November 2010 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 29 November 2010 06:16 (thirteen years ago) link
yo that sazerac at tabard was boss as all get out. loved the atmosphere. good to see yall!! next time we surely must lure out the tombot.
q you gotta tell me what you think about that book! also where did i recommend it? lol
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 29 November 2010 06:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't you mean "that sazeac at tabard was GARBANZO?"
― quincie, Monday, 29 November 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
thought you drank the lafayette!
― tehresa, Monday, 29 November 2010 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2010/11/police_investigating_dead_body_foun.php
totally glad i didn't go with that alley-entrance basement apt at 11th and euclid.
― tehresa, Monday, 29 November 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
― quincie, Monday, November 29, 2010 3:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
u r correct and i applaud u for the correction
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Tabard has one of the best Sazeracs in town for sure. Minutes to learn, lifetime to master.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
what's new?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 December 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Nothing sports-wise...Wizards stink, Redskins stink, and Caps do well in the regular season but fall apart in the playoffs.
Politics no fun.
Cold weather but no snow.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 December 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I had lunch with 69 today and he admitted to missing DC awwwww <3
― quincie, Friday, 10 December 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I do not miss DC atm as it is ~60 F in Oakland (of course the locals are bitching about it being so cold).
― quincie, Friday, 10 December 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno -- are you sure he wasn't just humoring you?
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 December 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Feel like I might be getting ill, but if I'm not, I'll be seeing a film at the Irish Film Festival on Saturday.
― Gukbe, Friday, 10 December 2010 05:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Have unfortunately missed everything in that and the Jewish film festival as well.
Re other weekend events, considering the museum controversy, the Patti Smith appearance for her Just Kids book about her and Mapelthorpe at the NPG could be even more interesting.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 December 2010 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Even the Caps have lost four in a row. I blame Haynesworth.
― I DIED, Friday, 10 December 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I just read curm's post above as "Patti Smith appearance for her kids' book" and was all wait what Patti Smith wrote a children's book?
― quincie, Friday, 10 December 2010 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GcNrQrW1L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― I DIED, Friday, 10 December 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
:)
― quincie, Friday, 10 December 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
― tehresa, Saturday, 11 December 2010 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
god bless us, every one
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 11 December 2010 05:47 (thirteen years ago) link
you realize you just made yrself tiny tim, yes?
― tehresa, Saturday, 11 December 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
shit.
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 11 December 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Chanukah was over so early this year. No last-minute shopping for relatives for me this week.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 December 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Some interesting profiles of non-celeb DCers here:
http://peoplesdistrict.com/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 December 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Anybody try these fancy new hotdog places getting written up in the Post and City Paper? Apparently DC-3 on 8th St. SE is supposed to be the best. I need to have one of those UHall pho dogs too.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2010/12/15/dog-days-is-the-district-witnessing-the-early-stages-of-a-hot-dog-boom/
And I still haven't checked out the other African restaurants...
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
My gut feeling is that any stand alone upscale hot dog shop isn't going to be sustainable over the long term. I can't think of many successful models of this in other cities (something like Hot Doug's in Chicago is broader) and there are far fewer chanced for add ons and liquor like there are in a burger place (which we're already oversaturated with).
I went to chidogo's and it was pretty good, but not really someplace I'll make a destination unless it's the only thing serving.
― I DIED, Thursday, 23 December 2010 08:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtonian.com/restaurantreviews/18/index.html
Komi is number 1 on Washingtonian's best restaurant list
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 December 2010 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
so, still contemplating a MLK Weekend visit. Is this DJ Dredd night of Prince a thing?
http://www.blackcatdc.com/shows/prince-party.html
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 December 2010 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
prince parties in general are a thing. or prince/cure/whatever parties. you'd think they get old but they've got pretty consistent followings
― fauxmarc, Monday, 27 December 2010 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
The Prince parties always sell out - if you want to go dancing with a lot of people to a lot of Prince songs all night, it's a thing.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Curmudgeon, is that Washingtonian top 100 from earlier in the year? I seem to remember those rankings from a while ago.