pellucidity

The missus texted me a picture of a planning notice.

Red Rocks seems to have their eyes on the always-doomed Old Town Gourmet Market at 902 & 904 King...

Also, just throwing this out there; but this might make that strip mall the best square block of food in the DC area. Want Pho? You got it. Want Mexican? You got it. What a burger? You've got the best. Want a steak? This is the only place for it.

Spot on, we were saying just that while we waited. Maybe it was in doubt before, but no question it's the best for now.

WOW.

Arrived a little after 7 and waited in a modest line. There was a sign up asking us to wait until 7:45 due (it seemed) to a shortage of chairs more than anything, but it was soon taken down. The décor is a fun mix of horror movie posters and butcher's charts. We were also stunned when we were told that no money was required tonight, and glad to be reckognized from our visits to to the mothership.

And the burgers! I had mine medium (which came out closer to medium-rare and was the better for it) with a pepper crust with the smoked mozzarella, bacon, grilled onions, and peppers. Like the above poster, my bun also collapsed under the majesty of the meat, which was the burger I had hoped for—for ages. My companion had hers rare (as suggested) with bacon, onion, tomato, and dill pickles. The meat was juicy and well-seasoned.

Excellent. Oh, and they have Cheerwine in bottles

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The burgers were juicy, and I strongly suggest you take Michael's advice and cut them in half. The corn is also a very nice touch, and my companion and I spectulated how good fries could be if they were cooked in beef drippings rendered from both restaurants' output. I don't know if I would really want the temptation to exist!

I just wanted to thank Michael and Danielle again (and apologize for asking for that second bottle). Good luck!

And for the viewers at home:

Stopped by after a disappointing visit to Minh's - recommended as while they were out of many of the flavors (it was just before the 11pm closing time) what they did have was about 15 fruit flavors most will have seen rarely, if at all - such as lúcuma.

Wegman's in Fairfax has them.

And they're beautiful.

Giant on Duke outside of Old Town had kosher coke on Saturday.

I don't know if anyone else buys them but the pork gyoza are back after a seriously long absence (from the Old Town store at least). They're good enough when a trip to Super H Mart doesn't seem on the cards.