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So, there's a place in Bar Harbor: http://fioreoliveoils.com/ We bought amazing olive oils and balsamic vinegars there, including one that sounds like the orange described above. I cannot figure out if they are buying from the same sources. Does anyone know?

And in the thread, someone says that the Astor on Columbia Road has koshari too.

Short answer - because they are evil. Long answer: I wasn't happy with my experience with them at either the Watergate (did my undergrad time at GW) or on Columbia Road (when I lived in Adams Morgan) or on 17th Street (when I lived in Shaw). But now... I have lived behind a Safeway for 22 years. It has been a horrid experience. I tried to shop there when I first moved here, and found that the food was generally nasty - either expired, or melted and re-frozen, or improperly stored. The variety of what they carried was atrocious. Also, the store was filthy, the surrounding parking lot even filthier, the trash was a constant problem, and their security was (and still is) a joke. At many community meetings, Safeway sent out spokesmen who said atrocious things like, "Well, you people steal too much, so we're not stocking expensive items here," and "This store doesn't make enough money for us to replace the freezers," and "We should just close this store, since you people don't appreciate it." They won't clean the store, secure the trash, call the cops to get abandoned cars cleared from the parking lot, shovel the walks or the lot when it snows, clean grafitti... you get the idea. And my neighbors who will still shop there (God only knows why.) tell me that the inside is still filthy and the products are still awful. Now they want to redevelop the property, and have been truly dismissive of community concerns, and of the impact this will have on the surrounding neighborhood. And while they keep promising that of course they will clean up RIGHT NOW and that the NEW area manager (I have met several of these) will make sure of it, nothing changes, and I am sure they will be no better once they get their shiny new store and 5 floors of condos above. They can bite me. And they will (corporately) never see a dime of my money.

Rahama. http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2012/03/rahama-african-restaurant-opens-at-1923-9th-st-nw/

The gin fiend I live with says he would probably use Plymouth. Or if feeling creative, perhaps Old Tom.

Whoops. I have problems remembering the new name of People's Drug Store too.

Perhaps you should talk to the folks at the Franciscan Monastery Garden guild. They have bees.

My shopping has changed a lot in recent years. I live about 300 feet from a Safeway. I won't set foot in any Safeway. Until recently, I had to go to Giant or Fresh Fields. Now I can walk to the Yes. I also have access to the Harris Teeter. And I can walk to the Giant on a nice day. With the opening of Annie's Ace Hardware on Upshur Street, I may never have to leave my neighborhood again. A granny cart is on my shopping list for this weekend so that I can do larger shopping trips on foot. (Oh, except for my periodic trips to Wegmans to stock up on Rochester ex-pat necessities.)

Won't let me read it. How do I get past the sign in screen?

We eat there pretty regularly. It's fine. It is not the wonderful revelation it was when I first walked in there in the early 80s. But we still enjoy it. We are prone to ordering a bunch of apps and then churros.

Meridian Pint has it fairly regularly.

Yes. I then promptly forgot it. However, there is a banner hanging on the railing with the name of the place, so next time I go that way I will attempt to notice and remember it.

I loved this place. Note the past tense. We tried to go for dinner on Saturday of Presidents' Day weekend, only to find that it had closed and this was opening night for a new central/west African place. (Or, as the gentlemen hangin around the tables told us, "More jungle food.") We then tried to go to Madjet, hoping that the closing we had heard about hadn't happened yet. It has. We ended up having a very nice dinner at Etete.

While looking through the dining guide, I came upon this listing. Let me warn folks - it's closed and up for sale. http://thebrightwoodian.blogspot.com/2011/05/brightwood-bistrobrightwood-lofts.html

I've had snacks there, and really liked the guacamole. Then again, it's the only guacamole I've had outside my own house in years (since the rise of the cilantro in EVERYTHING rule), as they were willing to make me an order without the evil that is cilantro.

http://www.washingto...ites/22872.html It is now online.

The husband used to get sent to Key West on business fairly regularly. He claims that the key lime pie there ALWAYS came with meringue, and so, I now must do that too (he really likes it that way now. I still prefer whipped cream.)

Domku does Saturday brunch starting at 10.

A few days ago, but no firm date yet: http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2012/02/pop-pre-preview-three-little-pigs-charcuterie-salumi/

That sounds really good. Can you point me at a recipe please?

Indeed, a valuable niche. What I wouldn't have given for a decent cookbook when I had to do the evil diet.

We bring this stuff back every time we go to New Orleans. We first had it on onion rings. Tasty.

So agreed. And seriously, they brought me milk, and a sandwich with cold cuts and cheese. And jello (which might be on the diet, but I don't eat it.) And a cookie, that I did not trust.

I have also spent time at WHC - and was on the low-iodine diet at the time. They knew that, as they had put me on that diet. I was supposed to get food that was acceptable on the low-iodine diet. Not a single item I was served fit the diet. They couldn't bring me anything that did.

They did not have any at the Adams Morgan store this afternoon.