Washington, DC is justly criticized for lacking the lunch places and corner delis of other major American cities. Blame it on the growth of the Federal Government (among about a zillion other reasons). As the gov’met grew, they tore down rows and rows of hash slinging dives, restaurants, chop suey palaces, and so on; in […]
When I first moved to the Hill I never dreamed of baby boom the neighborhood has experienced in recent years. I specifically remember thinking, “Well, I hear there’s a kinda crunchy Montessori program right around the block at Watkins but I better start saving now for private school if I want to have kids and […]
They jet in for a PR event and are on their way out before anyone can even ask who they were wearing. But why don’t celebrities choose the District as a place to hang their hat? Don’t get me wrong — I know we have our own breed of “celebrity.” As I tell visiting friends, […]
From August 16-22, 2010, Celebrate H Street Eats, the H Street Corridor’s answer to Restaurant Week. For $20.10 the restaurants of H Street are offering fixed price menus and other discounts. Participating Restaurants & Menus include: Argonaut I. Choice of any two sandwiches II. Choice of any two drafts Biergarten Haus I. Small house salad […]
“Ordering out” is a common occurrence in many households. In our home we find ourselves phoning in an order at the end of a long week (especially during the school year) or Saturdays at lunch, though there are exceptions to those patterns. As I reached for a helping of moo shu pork a week or […]