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  1. RWBooneJr
    This wins the award for the least healthy thing I've eaten this week -- five spice pork belly and a fried egg on a savory doughnut ($8). Lipitor sold separately.
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    No you don't.
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    Or you can just go here to see the latest tweets for all of the trucks.
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    Unless you go for the tasting menu, because Kapnos is a "small plates concept" (nobody opens "restaurants" anymore, only "concepts"), you can control the pacing. I like to order my dishes at place like this two at a time. This ensures you don't over order (which is easy at Kapnos), but that's not why I do it. It drives the servers nuts, which is fun. I am evil, but I tip well.
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    You still recommend this restaurant (which I thought was an overpriced shit-show). How does this affect that recommendation?
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    I can tell you every fault in every dish I've had at Le Diplomate (over-salting is a consistent issue and the steak tartar is over-seasoned to mask uninteresting beef, for example), but it doesn't matter. Even with the flaws, the food is still good (I've always cleaned my plate) and the place is fun. I was there twice last week -- mostly because I was meeting people that wanted to be there, but I was more than a willing participant. This is where Bistrot Le Zinc failed -- from my one visit (with the last chef), I thought the food was average (or below, depending on your average), a bit too expensive, and, above all, nothing I'd go out of my way for. And the place was terribly boring to me (as a person who lives outside of the neighborhood). From the closure, I'm thinking it didn't capture the heart and minds of the locals. The locals don't have a lot of options, but I can't say I blame them. Regardless, I don't think I'd fault Tom Sietsema for the closure.
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    The Pelmeni and Vareniki are great -- dare I say italic worthy? -- but I've never made it past them on the menu. I mean, why would you eat anything else?
  8. RWBooneJr
    The software is suppose to dynamically convert this stuff, it just doesn't always succeed. Any moderator can fix it -- you just add the correct character back into the title or post.
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    We changed the charset last night to fix a different issue (if anyone cares, we changed it to UTF-8 -- it was ISO-8859-1 for legacy reasons, which, basically, ensured that we were incompatible with the rest of the world). I fixed this one instance, but if anyone notices others, let me know. If it's too widespread, we can revert to the old charset, but hopefully the issue only shows up in a few places.
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    In future news: RWBooneJr forcibly removed from restaurant by police; diminutive owner seen screaming "We didn't mean all YOU could eat!"
  11. RWBooneJr
    If only there were a dining guide that could address such questions. . .
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    It's not exactly a secret.
  13. RWBooneJr
    Hello in there, Tom. Tell me, what color is the sky in your world? Anyway, Sietsema's 1.5 Star review is here.
  14. RWBooneJr
    Sucralose is non-caloric. I suppose that they probably use Splenda or some equivalent, which has maltodextrin in it and would account for the calories.
  15. RWBooneJr
    Ouch.
  16. RWBooneJr
    Has anyone figured out how an 8 oz serving of Sprite Zero Slurpee can manage 40 calories when it purports to be sugar free? What, exactly, do they put in there?
  17. RWBooneJr
    The three best things on the menu are the vegetarian sampler, that salmon (which get as a topping for the Greek salad), and the Egyptian pizza. I also note that the online ordering system their website is great.
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    Closed.
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    I can think of one spot that's available. It's fairly close to a sports arena and convention center, and comes with a large Buddha.
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    The entire room to the left of the door is the bar, with what is apparently first-come, first served seating (I was seated at an open table there immediately, despite a wait for the main dining room).
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    You hit the nail on the head.
  22. RWBooneJr
    "Siriani Vineyards unites nutty squid midtones and a murderous vomit aroma in their 2004 Pinot Grigio."
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    Derek Brown really likes song references. Of all his places, only Hogo (which is the funky taste in rum) isn't named with one. (The other places' names refer to Iggy Pop, the aforementioned Spanish Bombs, and Aerosmith, in case you were curious).
  24. RWBooneJr
    As noted in the Virginia guide, Cosmopolitan Grill is included by virtue of being named as one of Washingtonian's best "Cheap Eats" in 2012 (the most recent issue). The primary focus of the guide is Don's reviews, but it also includes all of the recent recommendations from The Washington Post and Washingtonian. Essentially, the idea is that if any of the major critics like a place, it appears in the guide with links to the most recent reviews, maps, reservations, etc. The star ratings are based on an algorithm that aggregates each critic's assessment and adjusts for factors like recency, etc. (Don doesn't give stars). Cosmopolitan Grill is "unrated" in the guide, which generally (though apparently not always!) equates to "above average" (one star is "average," two stars is "good").
  25. RWBooneJr
    Restaurants with multiple locations that Don recommends (or that Sietsema or Kliman have recently recommended) are incorporated into the appropriate neighborhood in DCDiningGuide.com. I'm finishing up the Virginia guide, which is now 95% complete, and I still need to tackle Maryland. However, when it's done everything will be there. Enjoy!
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