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Pop's SeaBar, Casual Seafood in Adams Morgan by The Owners of Cashion's Eat Place - In The Former Taan Noodles Space


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On 7/9/2014 at 5:31 PM, dinoue said:

From their website:

To our wonderful patrons and ramen lovers, we're sad to announce that Taan Noodles has closed. Thank you for all your support over the last couple of years. We will miss the wonderful community of Adams Morgan.

 

Cashion's Eat Place is taking over the Taan Noodles space and opening up a casual seafood place called Pop's Seabar.

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Seaside Heights comes to D. C...

...I say that respectfully.  I talk about Thrasher's and Fisher's caramel corn, both on the lower end of the boardwalk in Ocean City but there is also the original Carvel with its 1940's era ElectroFreeze machine (directly behind Casino Pier) and some of the best and freshest seafood I've ever had sitting on a backless stool on the lower end of the boardwalk in Seaside.  Clams oreganata, anything with maranara sauce-I travelled all over America for over 30 years and this was one of the best destinations of all.

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From the Washingtonian review linked above:

"The good news for everyone sick of "hand-cut, artisanal fries": Delicious curly fries. From a bag. Cashion's house-made ethos carries over for most items, but thankfully these starchy spirals of goodness aren't one of them."

Respectfully to the original Thrasher's on the lower end of Ocean City, MD's boardwalk (ONLY this location), Vleminckx in Amsterdam, Maison Antoine in Brussels or Duckfat in Portland, ME I am not "sick of hand cut artisinal french fries."

I also associate curly fries with Buffalo, New York where I have had some seriously good ones.

I look forward to trying them at Pop's Seabar.

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the smelts and peppers are quite tasty, calamari and peppers as well; if oysters are your thing I hear they are good. The cheeseburger with egg and taylor pork is on the model of five guys or shake shack in terms of thickness and cooking temp. I probably prefer it to either of those, but I only get a craving for that style of burger a couple times a year. I haven't had the lemon stick served the same way twice; I'll probably give up trying to recapture childhood. The "ice cream luge" I think requires me to be a good decade younger or a good deal drunker than I get nowadays; N is fond of the orange crush mixed drink.

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ate here tonight.  I found the orange crush quite potent.  The curly fries were not curly- apparently they were out of those but were still decent fries.  Chicken wings were a special tonight.  I thought they were fine- nothing memorable.  The bartender/server convinced me to get a chilled seafood salad rather than the "Little Salad" I was about to order.  I am grateful for the recommendation.  The salad- with poached squid, gulf shrimp, mint, lime, a touch of chilies, carrot cabbage, and ginger, was light and refreshing. Eating the salad (alongside wings & fries) enabled me to justify ordering the only dessert on the menu- waffle ice cream sandwich.  At $7.50 it's a tad pricey- but who cares.  It was simple (waffles and ice cream, covered with powdered sugar) but is a fitting ending to a meal here.

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Lunch here today, for the first time.  I have a mixed reaction.  

The good: the vibe is exactly right, as near to a beachy fried-seafoody bar as you will find in Adams Morgan.  I don't mean this as faint praise.  It was a lovely place to sit and drink a beer and eat a sandwich with a friend during early afternoon.

The not-so-good is that I can't vouch for the food.  It wasn't bad, and I really mean that.  But I would have liked better, for the price.  For instance, the fried oysters (on both the burger-with-fried-oyster and on the oyster sandwich) had little flavor. And the oyster sandwich was not a poor boy but was on a smallish hamburger bun. There was nothing really wrong with anything, but for $12 per not-big sandwich one hopes for something more than "yeah that's pretty good."

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