Joe Riley Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Opening Tuesday, November 20th. Modeled after an English countryside tavern, from what I understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelGold Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Daily Candy featured it today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jparrott Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Real ale? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoramargolis Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 This is the former Starland Cafe space. When Joan Danoff announced that they were going to close, someone I know who is active in the neighborhood organized a fundraising drive and presented plane tickets and accomodations for Bill and Joan to go to Ireland, in appreciation for all they had done to foster a sense of community in the Palisades. Does anyone know if Kemble Park is owned by the same people who own The Boat House a little further up MacArthur? If so, that isn't great news. They are decidedly NOT beloved among the Palisades communitarians--they are real estate developers who are responsible for a lot of the unfortunate McMansions that have been metastisizing around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdt Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Daily Candy featured it today. Gotta love a review for a place that has not even opened yet. At least they mention that it has not opened yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanvtaylor Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 This is the former Starland Cafe space. When Joan Danoff announced that they were going to close, someone I know who is active in the neighborhood organized a fundraising drive and presented plane tickets and accomodations for Bill and Joan to go to Ireland, in appreciation for all they had done to foster a sense of community in the Palisades. Does anyone know if Kemble Park is owned by the same people who own The Boat House a little further up MacArthur? If so, that isn't great news. They are decidedly NOT beloved among the Palisades communitarians--they are real estate developers who are responsible for a lot of the unfortunate McMansions that have been metastisizing around here. http://washington.bizjournals.com/washingt...rhours/524.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoramargolis Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 http://washington.bizjournals.com/washingt...rhours/524.html <whew> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcalkins1 Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 No, Kemble is not owned by the Boat House group, one of the owners is Jim Foss, he is the former CRC corporate chef and is a real talent. Jim was a featured chef at the James Beard House in NYC. He was very instrumental in getting myself and several other Capital Restaurant Group chefs into the Beard House. I would describe His style as new American with Amish and New England influences. He has produced some of the best food I have ever tasted. I would expect big things for KPT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 Last night I had an incredibly long piece of meat. At first I was shocked by its length - at least twelve inches - but when I realized the front part was folded underneath itself, my jaw dropped. Fully extended, this thing was legimtately eighteen-inches long. I didn't know how I was possibly going to get the whole thing in me, but fortunately, what it had in length, it lacked in girth. Skirt Steak at Kemble Park Tavern, cooked a perfect medium-rare, topped with a little romesco and served with grilled onion, destructively overcooked fries, and a ramekin of ketchup ($21.95). A bottle of Sam Adams Light, culled from an underachieving beer list, and drunk in a warm, clubby tavern with an English-library feel ($5.95). Cheers, Rocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Riley Posted December 9, 2007 Author Share Posted December 9, 2007 A bottle of Sam Adams Light, culled from an underachieving beer list, and drunk in a warm, clubby tavern with an English-library feel ($5.95). ?!? An English tavern theme and no Bass Ale or Newcastle Brown on draught? For shame. Oh, and someone's got to say it, Rocks - that first paragraph of yours was positively lurid. For a moment, I thought I was having a flashback to an old "letters" feature in Bob Guccione's magazine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLK Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 I have often wondered why you don't see skirt steak in more restaurants (I'm cooking some right now). I'll have to check this place out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brioboy Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 That's just about the most disappointing link I've followed all year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gillian Clark Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Last night I had an incredibly long piece of meat. At first I was shocked by its length - at least twelve inches - but when I realized the front part was folded underneath itself, my jaw dropped. Fully extended, this thing was legimtately eighteen-inches long. I didn't know how I was possibly going to get the whole thing in me, but fortunately, what it had in length, it lacked in girth.Skirt Steak at Kemble Park Tavern, cooked a perfect medium-rare, topped with a little romesco and served with grilled onion, destructively overcooked fries, and a ramekin of ketchup ($21.95). A bottle of Sam Adams Light, culled from an underachieving beer list, and drunk in a warm, clubby tavern with an English-library feel ($5.95). Cheers, Rocks. We were serving skirt steak at Cashions Eat Place when it first opened in 1995. It is incredibly flavorful and when cooked and cut the right way quite tender. It really was under utilized and considered the butcher's secret like flat iron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoramargolis Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Since we live in the neighborhood, we felt a need to check the place out. Apparently, others feel the same way, because the place was packed last night. The crowd was tilted pretty firmly toward the over-sixty crowd, which befits its dark wood-bookshelves-and wing chairs atmosphere. The music was making my indie-rock fan teenaged daughter a little crazy, an unpleasant mix of Kenny G-style instrumentals and Sinatra wannabe vocals. The food--well, a weird lobster bisque, flavored with anisette, vanilla and single malt scotch, with pecorino-topped croutons floating in it. The burgers were decent, but I wish the house-made bacon had been crisped more evenly instead of being partly flabby with a couple of burned spots. And the fries were limp in their chinese food containers. Veggie-teen's side of mac and cheese, in a cute little cast-iron cocotte was greasy, and the Dauphinoise potatoes turned out to be a thick slab of uninteresting scalloped potatoes. Our nearest neighbor on the banquette against the wall, a PBS news personality, was not thrilled with the battered and fried trout "fish of the day," which had been described to her as "pan-cooked" by the waiter. Her dining companion didn't eat more than a bite of his gyro sandwich, telling the busboy that his first course soup had filled him up and no, he didn't care to take it home. No beers on draft, just bottles. Ho-hum. Well, we mostly eat at home, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hungry prof Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Closed, or at least it appears that way. Never heard particularly great reviews, but all the empty storefronts around can't make anybody happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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