keithdcil
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Daniel, I like the place... I think walking through a fish market is pretty casual. Other diners were in work/business clothes, like us, or sweats and jeans on Friday night.
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I'm looking at the receipt... For two it was $297.77 before tip. We had the tasting menu, wine pairing (10 wines) desert and bottled water. We thoroughly enjoyed our meal, service. However, If we were entertaining my parents or I was taking out clients who may or may not be into food and wine, Blacksalt would not be the place to impress.
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Friday night- Blacksalt. It was a special occaision so we both had the tasting menu with the wine pairings. Seven seafood courses witha trio of desserts and 10 different wines. Our waitress asked "Are there any food, wine or preparations we need to avoid?" "We like to try everything, whatever the chef thinks is best" we replied. "Your going to love it" she said smiling. We did. Caution: quite expensive for such a casual place.
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Our office always enjoys Couscous Cafe's catering for lunch. Also, we have had bagel/muffin/pastry platters from DC Central Kitchen that are good and inexpensive and always delivered on time... but we haven't tried their lunch platters. Using a charilty also impresses some of our liberal employees and clients.
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Boston last weekend: Friday night we went to Les Zygomates near south station. We shared a beautiful bouillabaise (lobster, mussels, clams) and goat cheese crepes – perfect for a cold and rainy night. Saturday night the weather was beautiful so we walked from hotel (near conv. Center) to Artu in beaconhill. It’s a cozy (a dozen tables) Italian place on the lower level of a townhouse with an open kitchen. Since we were early for our reservations we happily stood at the kitchen counter (no bar) and drank chianti classico while talking to the chef, Susana (I think). Entrees were the veal milanese artu special and gnocchi – the huge portions were simple and flavorful around $20. I only wish we had such a place in DC. Dim Sum on Sunday at New Windsor in china town (concierge at hotel suggested) was pretty good and cheap... but they didn’t have the carts.
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Last night 6 of us enjoyed our dinner at the new Bice in Bethesda. Drinks: Cocktails and wines by the glass from a large list weighted toward Argentinian & Italian . Apps: 3 crispy pizzas with with cheese and mushrooms. Entrees: Wild Salmon Special with a tasty seafood stew on the side . Veal Milanese was a butterflied vealchop served almost like a shnitzel - so big it fell off the plate. Lamb Chop Special, 3 double thick and perfectly medium rare (the waiter said to only get if you like it med rare-and was right). Steaks - nice thick steaks served with four argentinian sauces on the side. Desserts: Fruit plate and bread pudding that was warm and wonderful (we all fought over the last bites). Good place for a group celebration - easy valet parking - very good service.
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I think some editor at Saveur threw a bone to Baltimore re: Berger Cookies because the big artcle in this issue about crabs never once mentions the Chesapeake Bay.
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Last I heard the Sonoma/Medocino project was named Redwood.
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9:30 pm last night, after a confernce at The Kreeger Museum our group of 8 went to Kemble Park Tavern in the Palisades for burgers and beers. It's a nice place - I think it used to be Starland. We sat on the terrace. Their Beer list could use improvement- 6 bottles (half domestic)and no draft, BUT my medium rare burger was huge and lip smacking good. I could hardly finish it. MMMM mmmm. Perfectly grilled on the outside and juicy red in the center. Each burger came came with a chinese food box full of french fries on the side which were thin and crispy.
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Saturday night...After a show at Lincoln Center (South Pacific) in NYC we dined at Whym. We drank a few glasses of their house sangria and shared fried calamari in a sweet /sour sauce and a wedge salad with blue cheese for starters. We could have made a meal of the calamari and stopped there. For Entrees she had short ribs and I had the blackened scallop special - both plates were huge and tasty. This place is comfort food heaven. After dinner we walked back to the Empire Hotel and had a nightcap in the sleek lobby bar before going to sleep. Sunday, we woke up early and walked all the way to Chinatown and rewarded ourselves with DIM SUM at the Golden Unicorn. 2 1/2 hours later we squeezed our big bellies into a cab to Laguardia and flew home.
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Was this upstairs or downstairs. Your experience was completely opposite to our dinner last week... We had excellent service. They didn't serve the naan, either.
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Steamboat Springs We had a great time skiing. As for eating, not so great. The best place we found was Cottonwood for Pacific Rim food. Nice selection of wines from Oregon and fresh seafood flown in daily.
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Hi Galen, We are fans of Nage in Rehoboth - both the restaraunt and parties you have catered. Sorry to say we haven't tried you in DC, yet. ( Soon, we promise! ) I am new to this board and just read your post about the SuperBowl take out - it sounded great... Do you do catering in DC?
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Agreed about the food . B&P's food is slightly above average/mediocre. For us - it's appeal is the wide menu and welcoming atmosphere. At B&P a group of us can get snacks/ light meals/ pizza/ sandwiches/ full entrees or just deserts and each category has veggie options . I disagree about the service, atleast in Shirlington, where our group of 6 goes for dinner before shows at Signature Theatre. As long as we tell our waiter we have a showtime they get us out in plenty of timetime. B&P's is one of the few place that doesn't rush you out and encourages people to linger with the books and free Wi Fi.
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Hope the new DC place is casual like Rustico. We had great beer, pizza and fish sandwiches last Saturday.
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With your boss and price range in mind... Look into Famous Luigi's at 19th and L. Some hate/ some love. Checkered tablecloth old school italian pizzas and pastas.
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March 1 , we are heading out to Steamboat Springs, Colorado for a week of skiing. This will be the first time in "ski town USA" for our group of 8 adults (all 40+). Are there any culinary delights not geared toward families or college springbreakers?