monsterriffs

Quite honestly, no. In my 26 years on this earth and having celebrated all of the traditional Greek holidays and festivities both here and in Greece, I have never come across the plate throwing except in the movies. As for Greek food in the area, your best bet is to find a Greek friend whose parents like to cook! Or the church festivals where the parishoners (specifically, oi yiayiades ) cook the food themselves. A good example of this is actually the St. Mark's Russian Orthodox Church in Bethesda where the parishoners cook the food every year for their festival. Such delicious, homemade pieroghies. Not Greek, but same concept...

You know, I've been regarded as blasphemous for having decried Five Guys in favor of In-N-Out (I compare them because, in my mind, they are similar homegrown, local chains). I never thought their burgers were anything special and in fact, their food as a whole is far too greasy for me. I'll take a double double, animal style and a black and white shake any day over 5Gs.

hello- first off, i'm new here, but I wanted to jump in on this thread because I went to A&J yesterday and I loved it (much like everyone else who goes). I'm strangely particular to the sour cabbage dishes when I go to the less Westernised Chinese places, and I ended up getting the cabbage pickles and the sour cabbage & pork (i think) soup. The cabbage pickles were great and actually a bit more sour than I'm used to getting from most Chinese places. The soup was nice and light and actually a good appetizer given that we had a ton of other food ordered as well. We also had the pork egg rolls, which were quite good as well as the 1000-layer pancake, which is reminiscent of country-style phyllo dough (my mom uses this for pastries and some of the savory Greek pies) which had been baked by itself. It's sort of a plain dish, but I experimented by putting some of the chili sauce on it and it wasn't bad. I loved the cucumber salad in hot sauce and the vegetarian and pork dumplings were pretty good. I'm looking forward to getting out there again soon and experimenting with more of the menu. Of course, as everyone who ever goes there mentions, the prices were outstanding: 65 bucks for the 5 of us.