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Ted Williams

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  1. Has anyone eaten at Oe Gad Gib(I believe this is the correct spelling). For my money I prefer this place over Honey pig... It is at 7331 Little River Turnpike. It is very hard to see from the road so just turn into the Jerrys subs and pizza lot and it is right there. It's got an "all you can eat" option and they cook stuff on a heated stone instead of a metal grate... It's pretty close to honey pig i believe and its very worth going.
  2. Great soup indeed... and at 9 dollars is about one third the price of all of the other appetizers. Palena's is also delicious.
  3. Ate here recently and was pleasantly surprized. It did have a sort of corporate feel to it, not that it bothered me. Devilled eggs were tasty, I also liked my big and very reasonably priced meatloaf. My friend ate the chicken pot pie which was good although the vegetables were slightly under cooked. My favorite thing was ordered by my wife. Chicken and Waffles!! delicious and now one of my favortie combinations of things ever. All and all it was good if not amazing food at a very reasonable price. I will go back.
  4. I ate at Central a couple weeks ago. I am wondering if I am alone in thinking that this restaurant is overrated and overhyped... I definately didn't think it was terrible but I was definately underwhelmed with the things I got largely across the board. My lady and I started with the mussel bisque and gougeres. The bisque, I thought was excellent and the best thing I ate that night. The gougeres were bland and felt to me like something that, if offered at a restaurant, should be complimentery with the bread basket. Then we had the Faux gras and the fried oysters. I thought the two components of the faux gras dish (faux gras and rillette) were both very well done technically, and the rilette i felt was pretty good, but the faux gras, otherwise known as chicken liver pate, did not seem to have the depth and complexity of flavor I have enjoyed in other pates. The oysters were??? shaped somehow into coins and breaded and fryed in ?kataifi? with tartar sauce. They weren't particularly crispy which is something i very much look for in fried oysters. and the whole dish sort of seemed like trying to force the square peg through the round hole, so to speak. For entree we had a bacon cheeseburger and the hanger steak. The hanger steak was cooked perfectly but was underseasoned, and the sauce that came with it didn't seem to add much.. The burger (certainly the lowest point of the evening), came medium well even though I ordered medium rare, also the bun tasted like it was pushing its shelf life. I also think that a burger should be good without having to add other strange components like the crispy potato things and the tomato things. For dessert we had the kitkat which was pretty tasty. Anyways again as I said at the beginning, all in all, it wasn't a really bad meal, but it really wasn't great and I am curious if anyone else out there feels the same way because, by reading this thread you might think it was something really special, which I believe it is not. Post away DR'ers. P.S. in an attempt to answer in advance any of these points you might be tempted to make... No I didn't tell my server my burger was overcooked or any of my other complaints. Why? Because I went (for a first time)to eat there to see what it was like without interference, because I think I know enough about food to see good(or not) ideas through bad execution, and because I don't care for interrupting the flow of the meal. I chose not to post until now because I generally enjoy reading dr.com much more than writing on it, but I'm perplexed by the mass wave of adoration, culminating in Seitsema's 3 star rating. I have also noticed that posters seem to get jumped on if they only say that they didn't really care for a restaurant, and don't detail the food that they ate and why it was underwhelming... So I did that. I respect people's opinions which differ from mine, and in no way suggest that anybody not go try this or any restaurant for themselves and form their own opinions.. Hamburger Helper
  5. I am going to Mourayo this weekend with a friend... Can any Don Rockers throw me some suggestions on what to order??
  6. I have eaten at Persimmon several times.. Not in 4 or five months though. Their bouillabaisse and the shitake crusted salmon are excellent, also the calimari with polenta.
  7. Why not enjoy the fine dining menu and then come back the next day to have your chicken... OR... why not eat in the back early, have a nice stroll around the neighborhood perhaps stopping by another exquisite Cleveland Park establishment Nanny 'O Briens, then head back to the cafe for round two... OR... Savor the flavor in the beautiful if not slighty disjointed decor towards the rear of the restaurant, and ask your waiter to have the kitchen prepare a cafe to go order which you can then eat in front of your TV or in bed or in your car on the way home or while typing madly away on Don Rockwell.com... OR... why not partner up with another set of diners, having one of you dine in the front while simultaniously another in the back and then switch half way through your meal or even halfway through each course... OR... Dressed in city flavored camoflauge, hide amoung the plants outside of Palena until the restaurant closes, then silently force entry into the building while of course avoiding the invisible laser intruder detection system and also making sure not to trip the pressure sensitive alarm plates built into the floor, then ransack the chefs office to find his secret Palena recipe book which is written in sanskit, then, assuming you can read ancient sanskrit, open your own restaurant called Pylena using said recipes but where there is only one dining space and diners are allowed to order from the entire menu at will.
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