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  1. Mark Slater
    I ate there twice in the past year and was totally unimpressed. I thought the $62 crab cakes were terrible. I've never left crab cakes on a plate before. Even their Burger was unimpressive. Good service though.
  2. Mark Slater
    My favorite thing from Mr. Chen's are the Peking Duck Rolls.
  3. Mark Slater
    Interesting clarification from DC's Attorney General's office: Consumer Alert: DC Restaurants Are Prohibited from Charging Deceptive Fees
  4. Mark Slater
    I tried watching it. Agreed, the beginning was amusing to me , having worked in that "Yes, Chef!!!!" atmosphere, but I turned it off after the sous chef thing.
  5. Mark Slater
    I had a wonderful holiday lunch this week at L'Ardente. Calamari couldn't have been better, with lots of legs in the mix. Fried cauliflower was crispy and delicious. Even the green salad was extraordinary. We then had Margherita pizzas, which we should have shared instead of each getting our own. Lots of leftovers. The showstopper was the Tiramisu. A chocolate globe is doused with flaming rum which melts it over the custard and cake. Its dramatic and utterly delicious.
  6. Mark Slater
    That is just flat out poor training. In busy restaurants, waitstaff can get really full of themselves. We've all seen it. At that pricepoint, pushiness has no place. Dover Sole at La Chaumiere is $42, by the way.
  7. Mark Slater
    I have a special place in my heart for Vienna. I was lucky enough to spend my junior year of college there living in the Erste Bezirk (first district-the old city). My favorite schnitzels were at the Gosser Bier Klinik, a restaurant that was several hundred years old at the time. The opera was the nightly entertainment (standing room was free for students at my school). We had daily coffee and Topfengulatchen (cheese danish) at the Aida pastry shop.
  8. Mark Slater
    Wow, that sound awful. I wonder what happened.
  9. Mark Slater
    Unconventional Diner has their brunch menu everyday of the week. The food is quite good and plentiful. David has that playful approach Michel Richard had. The prices are very moderate. Its always busy, too.
  10. Mark Slater
    Glad you liked it! Trovatore really does have a hit a minute. Here's a sensational performance of my favorite part, the Trio from Act 1 :
  11. Mark Slater
    Ben Kuna is the brains behind Le Vintage. I met him when he was the somm at Proof.
  12. Mark Slater
    i live a block from La Perla. I went once when it was fairly new. Once was enough. From the atrocious service, to the terrible food to the tacky decor, I've always scratched my head how it survives.
  13. Mark Slater
    Yikes. That's really expensive. I remember seeing a dining guide from 1964 that listed the Jockey Club as "very expensive" because the rack of lamb was $4.95.
  14. Mark Slater
    A few years ago, Nooshi sent a flyer to my zip code advertising their new promotion called "FUNKY SUSHI". I never took them up on that one.
  15. Mark Slater
    https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/09/01/soft-foods-hard-liquor-a-dining-dispatch-from-jon-taffers-just-opened-dc-tavern/
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