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  1. Bart
    Wow. Sad. I'll be cranking the Allmans on the train ride home tonight in his honor.
  2. Bart
    Lots of moms and other assorted females, but lots of dudes too. As far as the "sharing and helping each other" goes, I was somewhere on the mall near 7th St and a group of people were chanting "WE NEED AN EPI PEN, WE NEED AN EPI PEN" an a minute or two later, a woman came running through the crowd to the rescue. Very cool.
  3. Bart
    I'm resting my aching feet and raising a glass or 6 to all those others on the Mall today. What a turnout! What a scene!
  4. Bart
    There's also a old school, family run Greek Place in Crystal City called Athena Pallace or something like that. This is probably the most "normal" and least expensive of the three
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    Jaleo in Crystal City Lebanese Taverna in Pentahon Gity
  6. Bart
    Bumping for historical reasons. This threaded started in 2005. Its pretty interesting to read what people were asking and saying back then compared to now. And back then most or all of the tastings were free. Not anymore!
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    The Hirshhorn website is criminally bad. I clicked on it when the original orchid thread was posted and I reclicked on it again in this thread. Each time I do it, I know less and less about the program!!! Absolutely awful. No actual information is actually conveyed! Rant over.
  8. Bart
    You mean your special lady?
  9. Bart
    I just checked the menu they currently have online and it has no resemblance to yours at all! I don't know if they already have next week's menu up, or just that they can't keep up with the changes in the kitchen. But I agree, it is very daring to have a Japanese restaurant with a set menu which you aren't fully aware of until you're experiencing it. Let's hope this is the beginning of a new wave of unusualness in Old Town.
  10. Bart
    Is molecular gastronomy dead? I ask that based on Don's comments from 4 years ago in this post's link. Is Minibar the only remaining MG restaurant left in the area?
  11. Bart
    Thanks for the update Keith! Boy, they've had a revolving door at the chef's station ifor the last few yeas.
  12. Bart
    PS - I just looked at the rates.................It ain't cheap!
  13. Bart
    For something completely different you could do a western dude ranch sort of trip. I'm not sure why I thought about it, but rereading this thread made me think of a place my wife and I went in the mid 90s called Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch. http://www.idahorocky.com My memory is a little fuzzy, but it was an absolutely beautiful property, with a ridiculously beautiful view of the Sawtooth Mountains off the front porch. It had a main lodge and bunch of small cabins, so that may not be what you're looking for as you all won't be sharing the same space. They have horseback riding and hiking and fishing and all those types of things (we only stayed one night and didn't do any of that), but they also had a huge pool that was heated by a natural hot spring. That was awesome! We went just after Labor Day the weather was amazing. No humidity, pure blue skies, warm during the day, cool at night and perfect break from the summer heat here. I imagine the weather in August would be similar. The other thing that sticks with me other than the lack of humidity was the lack of traffic. We were doing a half hiking/camping trip and half hotel trip and as we drove from place to place, we would drive for miles and miles without seeing a single car in either direction.
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    After far too long of a break, my wife and I had another victorious dinner here tonight. For once we didn't over-order and only had four (completely new) dishes. In fact in all of the times we've been here, I don't think we've ever ordered the same thing as on a previous visit. Of course that's not hard to do with a menu that changes this often. The service equalled the food and we especially loved our French waiter in the bar area, whose booths have become our favorite part of the restaurant. There's nothing like ending a hectic first week back in this gourmet temple of serenity. Oh yeah, I must salute them once again for the range of wines and prices on their large wine list. We had a wonderful Petit Verdot for $45 which, if memory serves me, is $15 dollars cheaper than the least expensive of the handful of wines at Momofuku.
  15. Bart
    Many have elevators too
  16. Bart
    Is it Opposite Day?
  17. Bart
    This ^ reminds of this:
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    In an amazing coincidence, I read this page on the metro going home tonight.
  19. Bart
    Don - Have you read "Healing Back Pain" by Dr. John Sarno? It's not just about healing back pain but all sorts of pain throughout the body. I'm only a couple chapters in (after purchasing the book years ago), but one of his main points is people with pain (back, leg, neck, shoulder, elbow, foot, heal, (and even things like ulcers and colitis) etc) are often misdiagnosed and the physical pain you most certainly feel is not due to a physical problem but rather an emotional problem. Your mind is dealing with some type of stress by causing your body to feel pain. Like I said, I'm only starting the book, but one example he gives is that largest bone in the body, the femur, can be completely broken, and completely heal in 6 weeks (with relatively little pain), yet people suffer for year neck or back pain that "they got" from a very minor car accident, or picking up a very light object. He even talks about some high powered, high stress executive who suffered from the onset of debilitating pain one day while sitting at his desk. He had to leave the office in an ambulance and spent a couple days not being able to move at all without excruciating pain, yet there was no physical trigger for the pain. Another interesting data point he mentions is that the chronic pain people suffer from most usually occurs during the "earning years" (30-60 I think). This is when people are typically under the most pressure to perform, get raises, be successful, etc. Many people suffer pain in these years and it's often diagnosed as some degradation in muscle mass or bone mass, yet in the older parts of the population (70-90) people don't suffer from these same problems in the same numbers as younger people do. His point is that it's not the muscles or bones wearing out otherwise the oldest people would be completely debilitated and you could plot it on a curve related to age, but that doesn't happen in the real world. Another story he relates that hits home with me is that how many of his patients had pain that would move around the body so as your lower back pain goes away, it's replaced by neck pain. When your neck gets better, your leg starts hurting. Anyhow, it might be worth reading.
  20. Bart
    I hope it meets your standard for authenticity.
  21. Bart
    You got a table 30 minutes after you called? Is that what you're saying? Any details on the meal? Regarding the "price increase", I wonder if the original $47 price quote (1st post in this thread) wasn't a typo. The Washingtonian article was published 2 days before the first post here and Jessica Sidman has it listed as a $48 meal.
  22. Bart
    Very interesting. And ominous.
  23. Bart
    Finally, this place is getting some press!
  24. Bart
    Kinship is walkable and has a bar and they serve the entire dinner menu at the bar.
  25. Bart
    Here's the dim sum menu
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