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  1. DonRocks
    I just got a Super Burrito ($13.50) at Taqueria Guadalajara in Healdsburg. Don’t you wish you were me right now - there’s nothing like this in the DC area. Yum!
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    This list seems reasonable, and it makes me want to try Pearl’s, but where is BreadFurst?!
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    Laugh if you will, but this wine: is something I saw in my local 7-11’s chilled section for under $20. I examined the back of the bottle, and noticed that the wine was produced in the Département of the Vaucluse (I possess an extremely arcane and obscure way to know where the wine was produced, by examining the back label). Yeah well, this rose is something we all pay $35-40 for in restaurants, ie, it’s a common table wine in Provence that would fetch about $5 in French supermarkets and it’s worth every penny of what 7-11 charges here. Nothing magical, but amazingly drinkable. This was at the 7-11 at S Glebe Rd. and 4th Rd. S., Arlington.
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    Got it. I, too, raised an eyebrow when I first saw this - I’ve never seen a dish advertised (for two!) with 37 ingredients, and if this was anything other than expert Indian, I’d rule it out entirely.
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    Based on the dishes I've had at Kismet and Karma, I'm inclined to give Chef Ajay the benefit of the doubt, at least until I've seen otherwise (I'll add that I tend to stay away from their fish dishes simply because I've found the spices and (sometimes bright-red, hot) sauces can overwhelm the delicate fish, but I remain open-minded). There are so many spices on the Indian palate, that 37 - while a lot - seems doable in master hands, especially considering it's a $28 (not $150) appetizer for two. I'm not sure who the Chefs de Cuisine at Kismet and Karma are, but these restaurants have been remarkably consistent over time. I sure do miss Kismet's Turnip Chicken, however - they substituted Nilgiri Chicken a few winters ago, and Turnip Chicken has never again been seen.
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    The excellent Karma (sister restaurant to Kismet in Old Town), is changing as of … … tomorrow! (Tags, better titling, etc. to be added later) “Karizma, the Newest Addition to the Karma Family, Will Open Next Door to Karma Modern Indian on Sunday ….]” on popville.com.
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    I guess I’ve been going to Earl’s Sandwiches now for 18 years. One thing in this world that I possess is a good palate memory, and based on two fairly recent visits, I don’t see much (if any) change in quality since 2006 - it was really good then, and it’s really good now. G
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    There was one other local restaurant we mentioned here about five (?) years ago with a parallel situation - a location-or-two here in the DC area (I try to avoid the convenient-but-annoying term "DMV" whenever possible), and a location in somewhere bizarre like Hobart, Tasmania (it wasn't Tasmania, but somewhere similarly eyebrow-raising). My guess, and it's only a guess, is that an owner may be from that distant beyond. On a related topic, Clarity (Tracy O'Grady) is going to get major-league plaudits from me when I can summon the writing muse to give it the credit it richly deserves.
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    Fantastic Fritzbee’s Flying Food Factory! I remember Generous George’s Positive Pizza Place, and I could swear I remember a Fritzbee’s on Rockville Pike, but I’m not sure I ever knew that Silverado was GAR’s first restaurant. Thanks for this. Oh. Fuck. I owe Jeff Tunks an apology. In June, 2018, I unwittingly said that José Andrés was the “figurehead” of ThinkFoodGroup, not realizing that I’d been using that word incorrectly my entire life. José flew off the handle on Twitter, and I didn’t understand why … until I looked up the definition of figurehead, after which I apologized profusely (I had always thought that “figurehead” meant “the face of an organization”). I don’t even remember if I said it on here or on Twitter; all I can find is this post which José wrote after I explained myself. Jeff Tunks, if you see this, I apologize! I knew not what I was saying.
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    Ah, I didn't know this - I just happened to drive by yesterday. Based on a passing glance, it looks just like Sam's Custom Cleaners used to look like, except with a Pupatella sign draped over it. FWIW, a Blueberry-Lemon Scone (glazed on top) at Buzz Bakery was perfectly decent; I was also famished. 🙂
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    There is a “Coming Soon” sign for another Pupatella (they still have plenty of work to do), at 700 Slaters Lane in North-North Old Town Alexandria, literally a stone’s throw away from the GW Memorial Parkway. I miss Enzo at the oven at their original location, but I also understand financial reality. There appears to be (at least in Virginia) a strategy of buying up lesser real estate in what turns out to be prime locations. If you build it, they will come, and so far, people certainly have.
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    $30 for a hanger steak that looked better than it was. And yet, try and find a steak elsewhere for less these days - it isn’t easy. Is there anyone besides me who remembers the radio ads on WTOP, probably in the early 1990s … the catchy, uptempo, “Puttin’ on the Ritz”-type jingle: “Let’s rendezvous at the Carlyle Grand Cafe!”? (This is when there was only one restaurant in GAR, assuming GAR even existed then (did they?))
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    Yes, I remember now - it’s on the Maryland (North) side of Georgia Avenue (as opposed to the DC (South) side. I’ve been there a couple of times and really liked it. But my mom passed in 2011, and I just don’t get over that way much anymore. But I *was* referring to Goldberg’s in the shopping center on Boiling Brook Parkway, and that’s the location I frequented more often.
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    Is Goldberg’s the one in Viers Mill? If so, I’ve had all three, but haven’t had Goldberg’s in many years, or Bethesda in a couple of years. My memory says they’re all reasonable comparisons with each other (think H&H 15-20 years ago) - I remember enjoying Bullfrog also; BreadFurst’s are more Montreal-ish. Also, Chew-ish’s did not survive particularly well overnight, at least not as well as I was thinking they might. They also have Ivy City smoked salmon, and perfectly honorable tubs of cream cheese. ”Bagels vs. Rolls with Holes”
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    I agree. I may prefer these to BreadFurst‘s, but mainly because BreadFurst’s are so small that I find them very difficult to cut. But I can’t think of any other New York-style bagel in the area that I prefer to Chew-ish’s. A word of caution: I had a ton of things on my mind when I ordered here, and (I’m guessing) I accidentally ordered a half-dozen salt bagels instead of everything bagels. These were *so* salty that it was necessary to amputate the tops and discard them, and then using the bottom halves of two bagels to make one bagel sandwich at home (the large grains of salt cannot be easily scraped off).
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