Crise_de_Foie

Ugh, I'm sorry to say that I was wrong: Tivoli is closing its doors for the final time on December 19th or 20th.

Sigh,

Rocks.

Although the place is a pile, it's sort of sad to see another Rosslyn institution go away -- the other one having been The Orleans House!!!!!!

I ordered a classic sausage and pepperoni pizza as well as a Mediterranean Rusitca pie from the Arlington store several weeks ago and was very disappointed:

1) Difficult to place order (person who answered the phone spoke terrible English)

2) Pies arrived in about 35 minutes but were barely lukewarm (had to reheat in oven)

3) But worst of all, the overall taste was bland, saltless, and fatless!

I don't see what the big deal is about with this chain -- If what I had is typical, then their food is a pile!

There are much better pies all over town and, in Arlington, the Italian Store, Sette Bello, Faccia Luna and Lost Dog Cafe quickly come to mind.

Tonight will mark my third visit to this Disneyworld for burger lovers!!!! I may have to eat a big lunch so as to stretch my stomach enough to be able to handle this 10oz beauty!!!!

To play a little devil's advocate -- any reasonable solution to the problem (assuming of course the Segway still exists in five years) will necessarily require some sort of permitting system like handicap tags on cars.

Without such a system any yahoo who wants to would be able to ride roughshod over any business establishment whether or not the business owner wants the Segway there.

To answer the inevitable -- Yes, I am fully aware that wheelchairs do not have handicapped tags on them. But wheelchairs are not generally used as pleasure vehicles for abled people.

To the abled bodied Segway riders - buy a chain and a lock and keep your mechanized transport outside where it belongs.

Thank you for such a reasonable post on this thread. Let me add that this brings attention to an ever increasing problem in our society -- the lack of consideration, courtesy and good manners. In this case, I am speaking to the actions of the Segway user and not Nadya. Allow me to chime in:

1) Scenario #1: Truly disabled Segway user -- If this is in fact the case, and our mystery diner relies on his Segway due to a disability, he should have still been aware that his device would seem out of place at a restaurant. As such, common sense, courtesy and consideration for others (including the owners, management and staff) would dictate that he at least ask if it were okay to bring in the Segway because of his disability -- and in this case he needs to mention that he's disabled (sorry disabled people). So unless our mystery diner is also mentally disabled there is no excuse for his bad manners and lack of consideration!

2) Scenerio #2: Non-disabled Segway user -- This guy is a taker, a pimp (on wheels), a tool, and immediately requires the following:

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That's all!

You are a sick, sick man.

But I'll bet his kidneys are in top form!

I would have just turned around and said hello, remembering that hydronephrosis can result from interrupting the flow of urine.

Okay, I don't know what that meant, and I am not into any sort of piss play. Although, I do feel it would have been appropriate to shower this fool with the living water!

Just tonight, I visited the new upscale, modern and totally dope tratoria place in Clarendon. Needless to say, after sampling numerous delicious wines, I had to make my way to the men's room to shake the dew of my lily. What should have been a satisifying and relieving experience (after all, life's pleasures can be reduced to eating, drinking, f***ing, roughing up the suspect, pissing and Sh*tting) turned out to be not so.... I am standing at this cool, modern, auto-flush urinal holding phat frank like a hose on a five alarm fire when this tool walks around behind me yapping on a cell phone. I thought, "okay, he's done and will walk out in a sec." NOT SO! This fool keeps babbling and actually bumbs into me! Worst of all, he's talking in Italian (at least give me something to listen to!!!) Next person I catch talking (especially non-American English) will get fleeced!

The bottom line is: People should stay off those goodamn phones when in a public rest room!! I'd like to know other people's thoughts on this.

Agreed. I say good riddance to that crap-heap. Now if we can only do away with LuLu's as well!

Bye bye Blackie's. We won't hardly miss ya...

Back when I was an undergrad at GW, this was one of the "destination" restaurants that parents took their little darlings to when they came to visit. I remembered it fondly, until I visited a few years after graduation, when I had gained a greater appreciation for good food.

Remember those childhood shows that you remember fondly, until you catch them on Nick at Nite, and the memory is ruined by a godawful piece of dreck?

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