Washington DC

Also post a picture of the Washington Monument at night, that thing looks like a big spooky KKK memorial or something. Secret societies yippee! I don't know near enough special handshakes for this burg.

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http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/geodesy/images/big/geod0549.jpg http://faluninfo.net/pictures/FDI_Press/2003-07-22-washington-monument.jpg

We could try that DC FAP at 18th Street Lounge or Dragonfly that we discussed.

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Oh j.lu, where is the DC Lush???

Cafes
Cafe La Ruche in Georgetown (great hideaway)
Le Bon Cafe, Capitol Hill (a bit overpopulated by Hill people)
Kramerbooks, Dupont (cafe, but not Euro, and way overpriced)

Restaurants
Bistro Francais, Georgetown (relatively inexpensive solid bistro food; good for fish; prototypical date restaurant)
Bistrot du Coin, Dupont (very French, moderately expensive)
Au Pied de Cochon, Georgetown (food is mostly terrible, though I like the onion soup - connoisseurs might disagree - but classic anyway)

Bars
Bistrot du Coin, Dupont
Cafe Milano, Georgetown (not French, but Euro, as an epithet)
Eighteenth Street Lounge (again, Euro, but in a good way if they let you in)

M Street in Georgetown. More or less across M Street from Sephora/blue mercury/MAC.

Stoney's on L St. - cheap drinks, mad cow, dive-y atmosphere
Post Pub? - across the street from the paper
Sky Terrace - the rooftop (summer) bar at the Hotel Washington - or the Round Robin bar at the Willard?
Full Kee - for shrimp dumplings in chinatown; maybe Tony Cheng's Mongolian as mentioned above too (it's ok, nothing great)
Breadline - great lunch (only) near the White House from Marvelous Mark Furstenberg; filled with political people
Old Ebbitt Grill - very Federal City, across the Street from the Treasury Dept
Cap City and Gordon Biersch breweries
Irish Times/the Dubliner
Red Sage - I'm not sure that either upstairs or downstairs is worth it, but upstairs is cheaper
Fado - I never liked this Chinatown pub much, but others might

Moderately expensive restaurants: Zaytinya, Equinox, Kaz Sushi Bistro

Basically a lot of the problems Ally and I have with AM is that we only get to hang out there together on the weekends.

xxp DC chicks go jogging every morning, but they eat terrible institutional food lunches, so you get this great mixture of fitness and big buttedness. That's my theory at least

Entirely true. Great ankles, and they got back. Awesome.

this is going to suck

a point i hadn't considered before:

who lives in d.c. and doesn't get to have guns legally?
who lives right outside the city limits and DOES get to have guns legally?

or who lives in DC and is so stoked at the opportunity to own a firearm that doesn't already have one

xxp DC chicks go jogging every morning, but they eat terrible institutional food lunches, so you get this great mixture of fitness and big buttedness. That's my theory at least

ok, so i'll put dc on the list of places to move in the fall.

why should the criminals be theo

http://www.thehinter.com/hint/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/gordongartrellhb5.jpg

that is totally otm btw

he's lying, will. dc is pretty much universally accepted as america's most hideous major city.

i won't fight you on this. somebody'd have to come off major dough to get me up there - i'm talking 6 fig & some pretty perky benefits. OTOH there are just boatloads of cute girls up there. hot as NYC girls? Probably not. but they likely have lower standards and purportedly big(ger?) asses.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/DC_likely_to_gain_voting_member_1201.html

sorry, i'm not sure what the most recent DC thread is. i'm going to be in town this weekend (fri-mon). i probably won't have any time to hang out since it's for my sister's wedding and there are various other family things planned, but if anyone (tombot? mr. que? anyone else?) wants me to give them a call on the off chance of a free evening, they can send their phone no. to naamme at gmail.

what kind of food is DC known for?

there's mad ethiopian

I think the only thing I have heard called a DC original is the Half-Smoke.

lotsa great salvadoran and ethiopian in the city, vietnamese in northern virginia

plus "things with mambo sauce on them," which might as well be its own food group

what is a half smoke

a type of sausage

Also, seconding the mombo sauce.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/561/the-missing-link

The history of the half-smoke sausage/hot-dog

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2011/07/21/did-mumbo-sauce-exist-before-d-c-s-asian-run-carryouts/

chicken wing dipping mambo/mumbo sauce history

dang, ty

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/mumbo-sauce-the-flavor-of-washington-that-isnt-the-president-and-the-politics/2011/07/14/gIQAFOqQII_story.html

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/344683

more on mambo sauce - i love how bill cosby turns out to be the zelig of dc fast food

I DIED to thread

otm

what am I on the thread for, I see that mumbo sauce has been adequately covered

recs for cheap places to stay near a metro step, that may also have cheap places for parking available nearby?

petworth? columbia heights? bloomingdale? honestly it's pretty easy to park a car in any of dc's cheap residential neighborhoods (assuming you get dc plates or have a backyard)

you could also look near h st ne, but metro access is definitely spotty

why would anyone want to park in DC proper unless you work here, is my question

I used to hate on the bus system but now that I live on one of the main lines - 52/53/54 + Circulator, whaat - I am kinda becoming an advocate of the surface options to accompany metro. Search for cheap first and then use google or wmata to figure out what you can get to stop and station-wise. Seriously though, if you must park, park outside of town. It's just a huge pain in the ass without a zone sticker.

look for something in Virginia on the Orange line, maybe.

For cheap? I dunno. Would suggest green, blue or yellow. Orange line spots are kinda premium, with all the tech corridor industry shit + proximity to dulles, reston, tyson's etc.

in town for a few days. staying on Capitol Hill. anybody got recs for somewhere cheap/good/not-sceney to eat tomorrow night? local or yellow line preferred. can't drink (more than a cocktail) b/c of meds, so pubs are out. otherwise....?

Baan Thai on 14th St NW

Cher Cher Ethiopian 1334 Ninth St. NW

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-10-best-ethiopian-restaurants-in-the-washington-area/2016/10/12/0c38147c-8027-11e6-a52d-9a865a0ed0d4_story.html?utm_term=.e1967ea0f332

https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/07/17/best-cheap-restaurants-around-washington-dc/

http://tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com/

Find some good places to eat?

Cher cher was v. good, tyvm for suggestion. Also I scored tix to the NAAHM for a second day and beelined down to the café for catfish po boys.

Because it was hip and I hadn’t yet been, I went to Milkbar and I got a cereal milk soft-serve. It was fine, but I can’t imagine doing it another time.

Oh I'm just seeing this. Are you still here? Do you like our bizarre winter weather?

It’s weird! Today at least feels like February.

The Heritage Foundation’s Zack Smith, arguing against DC statehood, says DC residents “already impact the national debate” because members of Congress see their yard signs while driving to work. pic.twitter.com/g7fV3TopCX

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) March 22, 2021