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  1. DonRocks
    If anyone is able to add up the à la carte prices here, and reach $50, let us know. I can’t believe Restaurant Week still exists. Then again, I can’t believe over 74 million people … oh, never mind. 🙂
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    [Even our Ace has forgotten! People can write whatever they want to - I’ll change the title accordingly (or move the posts into a more topical thread, eg, if a thread is titled “Bread,” and someone posts about “Butter,” I’ll move that into the Butter thread, with a snapback link to the Bread thread.)] And I was going to get carryout from Kismet (which is the best Indian restaurant in the area that I’m aware of), but one look at their menu made me cringe. I could swear, for example, that the Dal Makhani ($15) and Pindi Chickpeas ($15) were both $13 just a month ago, although I’m not certain. This restaurant was already cringey-expensive for carryout, but it’s so good that I close my eyes and order; not this time. (This is why I usually write prices down, and encourage others to do the same - sort of a historical record, so to speak).
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    Not to mention the environmental cost of having a few bites of food wrapped in polyethylene (tritely marketed as “plastic”) which will be around long after the bones, all the bones, have decomposed.
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    I’d normally answer “Quality-Price Ratio,” but with all the shrinkflation, I’ll say “Quantity-Price Ratio.” I randomly noticed the other day that 28-ounce (28, not 32) containers of Gatorade are something like $3.39. Last time I had one, they were more like 32 ounces for $1.89.
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    This is an industry(*)-wide issue - two nights ago, I refused to get carryout, from anywhere, given the current QPR. (*) And it extends far beyond the industry from my perspective. It’s as if everyone is raising prices because everyone else is raising prices.
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    I don’t think it was irrational - I probably went there ten times. It was good pizza. Nino’s, now that was great pizza, but I don’t think anyone will remember it.
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    Hope these pictures are each worth a thousand words:
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    Same. I got carryout from Indique probably a half-dozen times during the pandemic. What a great run for this restaurant - it sounds like KN and Surfy left it in good hands with Deepu Mohan [Dakshin will have its own thread]. Still the best Chicken Chettinad I’ve ever had. I’m a big fan of Karma’s, but Chef Vinod owned this dish.
  9. DonRocks
    “Gay Couple Sells Restaurant at Center of Small-Town Dispute” by Tim Carman on washingtonpost.com
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    😮
  11. DonRocks
    Your photo definitely puts the “taking your seat” in “taking your seat.”
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    (NB: The text says Moe, but Curly is correct.)
  13. DonRocks
    Before Dec 23, the best meal I’d had in 2023 was at Albi. Now, it’s Metier, and it really isn’t that close. Metier is on another level than Kinship.
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    And? And??
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    If I saw these cherubs flying around me, I’d launch into a full-bore sprint and dive head-first into the nearest manhole. NB - The dish “carpaccio” was named after this guy!
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    I have a hypothesis about this place - without any facts to back it up, except for one notable thing: Not too long after this crime-scene meal occurred, I randomly picked up a Japanese airline in-flight magazine and leafed through it (I think it might have been ANA). To my shock and horror, the only local restaurant advertisement was for Sushi Kappo Kawasaki - I also noted the airline’s DC office was only a few blocks away from the restaurant. I remember thinking to myself at the time that it would explain everything if this was a quasi-tour bus home-away-from-home, owned and run by the airline, for tour groups visiting from Japan - the two criminals-posing-as-owners essentially being henchmen to keep the non-Japanese clientele out. Again, I have zero factual evidence to support this, other than the fact that I saw that ad, but at the time, it was as if I was struck with a tsunami of clarity, right or wrong. I haven’t given this a thought in over ten years, and wish these people well in their quest for good health.
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    I first went to the Georgetown Booeymonger in the late 1970s. It has always been just awful, and honestly, I don’t see how it lasted fifty years (at 2 AM, it was either this or Georgetown Diner which at least served omelettes). Nevertheless, it makes the list of Oldest Restaurants in the Washington, DC Area.
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    I agree. i think they had a “one-day-only” special the day after Thanksgiving, but I have no other information about what were undoubtedly the best pizzas I’ve ever eaten. And I mean that if I was asked to rattle off the ten best pizzas I’ve ever had in my life, all ten would be the Happy Gyro NY-style pies. I miss them terribly.
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    So I’m watching this film (it’s currently on YouTube for free - if you ever watch it, choose the one that’s 1:16:50 in length because it has very good definition). Anyway, I had the subtitles at 50% size, but I blew them up to 200% to take this photo. The line spoken is, “Well that’s a deal, Dave, but ….”
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    Eric, My memory is now a week old, and I only “saw” a couple of plates from about ten feet away (and I wasn’t really looking). All we had was the Peking Duck. I believe Mr. Chang, Jr., himself cut our duck (right outside the kitchen door, but in the dining room). Our older server may (or may not) have been his spouse. I would just ask, and if you can speak any of the Chinese languages, that may be a plus because I’m pretty sure no other customer in there did (at 4 PM).
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    The first person to explain this wins a meal at Maestro with Jake Parrott.
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    I had dinner at Duck Chang's two nights ago, and the Peking Duck is still fabulous. My two big criteria for Peking Duck are 1) crispy skin and 2) rice crepes that smell like rice, not shortening. Duck Chang's pretty much rated a 10/10 on both of these. However, be prepared for a $68.95 sticker shock (for about 10 pancakes-worth). It was really good.
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    They should have named it this:
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    Some things in life continue, and provide comfort just to see.
  25. DonRocks
    The review mentions something called “Aom.” My guess (and it’s only a guess) is that it’s a variant spelling of what was formerly listed as “Orm.”
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