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  1. Mark Slater
    What's with all this hand wringing? You kids need to learn how to fake a migraine.
  2. Mark Slater
    Your last sentence is the answer to your question. Or, there is a shortage of crazy people in your neighborhood. The truth these days is, to open a "nice" restaurant anywhere costs $1-4 million. Add to that operating costs for the first year and it is a frightening amount of money to risk, especially if it isn't your own money.
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    Any idea why they were closed and the door padlocked last Saturday afternoon ?
  5. Mark Slater
    The actual person who posts the responses online is his "producer".
  6. Mark Slater
    Homer likes Refosco Marge like Furmint
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    I had a nice dim-sum lunch last Sunday at China Garden in Arlington. This is a very large and super-busy restaurant. I have never seen so many babies in one restaurant in my life. Not one of them made a peep that I could hear. Dim sum: the secret baby charmer.
  8. Mark Slater
    There is a famous recording of Verdi's Otello with the very well known tenor Jon Vickers, where he stops singing, turns to the audience and says "Shut up with your damned coughing!!". Priceless.
  9. Mark Slater
    Sir, To the casual observer, this might be construed as ass-kissing your boss.
  10. Mark Slater
    And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
  11. Mark Slater
    I got tapped for a murder jury 2 years ago and was able to have decent lunches at: 701 - at the bar Signatures - at the bar Several places in Chinatown Jaleo The cafeteria only during deliberations - for 4 days! During the trial, it seemed most of the witnesses and trial participants ate at the McDonald's a block north of the courthouse.
  12. Mark Slater
    Here's an idea for the Dec. 5th dinner: Three 90 minute seatings for DR.commers You're welcome, Michael.
  13. Mark Slater
    La Madeleine. Any store, anywhere.
  14. Mark Slater
    The Alpine started in DC on (I think) 19th St. in the late 70's/early 80's. They moved to VA a few years after that.
  15. Mark Slater
    My favorites: Marcel's Eve Circle Bistro Kinkead's Vidalia Old Ebbitt (after 11 M-Th mmmmm) Guards (the only place left on the planet that still serves Veal Oscar!) Corduroy
  16. Mark Slater
    Plotnicki was there this week. Hated it.
  17. Mark Slater
    Jim, John was busy.....umm........elsewhere.
  18. Mark Slater
    A shyster, usually married to a schicksa.
  19. Mark Slater
    Edit that to read "award winning corporate wine list".
  20. Mark Slater
    You drank Pinot Grigio? OMG Rocks has been abducted. An alien imposter is running this show.
  21. Mark Slater
    Read Ann Tyler's book called "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant". That's the whole premise of the story.
  22. Mark Slater
    Full Kee is best for soups. Also, they only take cash.
  23. Mark Slater
    Pesce=Good
  24. Mark Slater
    We never look at the menu, only the tanks. The waitress, Kim, is always very helpful suggesting things.
  25. Mark Slater
    My favorite is New Big Wong on H St. between 6th and 7th. The walls are lined with fish tanks full of interesting things including: live shrimp, mahogany clams, razor clams, dungeness crabs, lobsters, various fish. Their "special fried rice" with shrimp and dried scallops (and no soy sauce) is spectacular and addictive. The menu is on the cheap side, the live things are definitely not.
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