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The following two paragraphs are paraphrased from a detailed letter Amy sent me yesterday. I realize it sounds a touch "press-releasey," but since it's from the chef herself, it carries plenty of weight and significance. Congratulations on your new position, Chef Brandwein - we'll all be pulling for you! Cheers, Rocks. Amy will be the opening chef at Fyve, a new restaurant in the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City, currently scheduled to open in early March, pending final construction. Decor will be vibrant red, orange, and cool patterns with hardwood floors and no tablecloths. There will be an intimate dining room with an adjacent lounge. The staff at the Ritz has given Amy total creative control over the menu, which will reflect modern-American cuisine. She'll be doing some traditional dishes such as ribs, pork belly, collard greens, baby chicken, but twisting them in a different way. There will be southern-Italian influences, but also some nods to Tunisia, Morocco, and Turkey. "Inclusive and diverse menus that will look towards how all of these countries are similar in their ingredients and techniques, but using them in different ways with different spicing," she told me. Ginger, curry, saffron, turmeric, and garlic will all be used in various dishes, which will be cooked with ingredients sourced locally and from small east-coast farms whenever possible. -
Kusshi Sushi, from owner Wesley Yao (Hanaro Sushi, Poke Dojo), has expanded to Downtown Silver Spring and Pentagon City: https://www.sourceofthespring.com/silver-spring-news/2798687/kusshi-sushi-now-open-in-downtown-silver-spring-soft-opening-specials-extended/ https://www.arlnow.com/2022/07/06/sushi-spot-kusshi-now-open-in-pentagon-city/ -
I stopped off at Epic Smokehouse in Pentagon City the other day after a late meeting. No thread here yet. Its about 1 1/2 years old. The restaurant is long and narrow with a full big window line. Its not the most attractive walk around neighborhood --across from a big blank wall at Costco...but Oh my there are a lot of new residential high rises in the neighborhood. The long window line looks into a handsome sleek restaurant. I was only looking for a quick meal; went to the bar and ordered off the bar menu, choosing an Epic Burger and an IPA. One part of this meal was simply heavenly; The fries were magnificent; evidently doubly fried in a mixture that includes sage, rosemary, thyme and one other herb. Truly delightful with a memorable taste. Burger was okay...not great not bad. But those fries--> Just delightful. I'll go back for more. -
When I was at Pentagon City mall a few days ago, I noticed the Ruby Tuesday has closed. The sign on the paneling over the empty space says that a Harry's Tap Room will be opening there. I can't recall if it gave an ETA other than "soon" on the sign. -
As usually satisfied regulars to Bebo, I would like to put the pro and con Bebo arguments in perspective by summarizing an experience my wife and I had last night at Murali in Pentagon Row. We ended up there after running a few errands in the mall and expecting to catch the always decent happy hour at Lebanese Taverna. Much to our chagrin, it was closed for a private party. looking for the least bad option in that wasteland, we chose Murali, which we hadn't been to in years. For $92, we got 6 glasses of wine, a crab/avocado salad with brownish avocado and slighly "old" crabmeat and split a $26.50 plate of seafood risotto which was a mixed bag to say the least...the seafood was actually fine in it, but the rice was overccoked, the sauce bland and strangely out of place huge chunks of cold tomato were all over the place! The moral..for less than this "stuff" costs, at Bebo you can get outstanding risotto for $19 bucks, good salads, good ingredients in all dishes and at least decent, sometimes outstanding preparation of most dishes plus of the 20+ pizzas I have had, all have been at least good. most very good to execellent. And service..once you become a regular at the bar, you are treated as such...Chef Donna always says hello to us and the the sous chef Amy came out are last time there to see if we enjoyed the whole wheat spaghetti special..Bebo is not perfect, but we all need perspective after blundering into some the price point competition. Our expectations for a Donna restaurant are indeed high, but essentially at this point, Bebo is the best place of its type in NOVA, albeit with slim to no competition...BTW please people somebody try Cucina Vivace up the street..on our way home last night at 8:00 PM..nobody was in there! -
Family is in town from Arkansas. Looking for something for Friday night. Her parents are not the most adventurous diners in the world, but there's no reason to resign ourselves to the nearest TGI Chilibee's. Thanks in advance! --- [NB - I changed the title and tagged the thread. Rocks] -
I am meeting a friend whom I haven't seen since high school for drinks in Pentagon City after work this week. Although I lived in Pentagon City many years ago, I have no idea what is over there anymore. I am looking for a decent place to grab some drinks and maybe a little to eat. Food is less important, as catching up on the last 20 years will be the priority. Any recommendations?
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While at Pentagon Row in Pentagon City, I had about a half hour last evening to fit in a meal. There's a new joint there called Tapeo, which is under the same ownership of the folks who have Murali and La Creperie in the same courtyard. Because I was in a rush, I didn't try much, and I wasn't expecting much, but amazingly Tapeo fell below my already low expectations. Happy hour M-F from 5-7 has $2 Yeungling and $3 mojitos and glasses of sangria. I opted for the mojito which definitely had some rum in it. A few of those will definitely get you rollin'. A light taste of mint. Perhaps a bit too sweet. Not the best I've had but not the worst. The food, however..... Patatas Bravas. Listed on the menu as "fried potatoes with spicy tomato sauce and garlic olive oil" they were actually stewed in a thick tomato sauce. When I think of patatas bravas, such as those I've had in Spain, or here at Jaleo or even La Tasca or Las Tapas, they're smallish chunks of potatoes, most definitely fried and given a light coating of a spicy tomato and garlic sauce. You can stick a toothpick in them and eat them simply and singly. At Tapeo, they were these big, overcooked, mushy chunks of potato jammed in that sauce. You could pick up spoonfuls of this and use it as spackling or even mortar to hold bricks together. Utterly foul. Revoltingly foul. Think of the consistency of that sweet potato casserole at Thanksgiving, but with bigger chunks. Or a lamb stew that's had the opportunity to dry out a bit and had nothing in it but potatoes and sauce. The other dish I ordered was the Chorizo a la Parilla. Grilled Spanish sausage served with mashed potatoes. (If I wasn't in a rush I probably would have caught that I was ordering two dishes with potatoes.) The sausage itself was pretty decent. Heavily and pleasantly spiced, there were two chunks of sausage about 4 inches in length each, split down the middle and served over the potatoes. What the menu didn't point out was that they were throw-me-a-goddamn-life-preserver DROWNING in this terrible, brown, sweet and sour sauce. That sauce was like you're typical English "brown sauce" spiked with a massive amount of vinegar. It completely ruined the sausage underneath it. I've either eaten, or drank, or eaten and drank at almost every one of the places at Pentagon Row. As far as I'm concerned there's only two places worth sitting down in....Thaiphoon (same ownership as the folks in DC) which does a decent job, and Lebanese Taverna which most folks around here are familiar with. Honorable mention to Noodles and Co. for fast food takeaway.
