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The online menu states half pound burgers, the printed menu says 6 oz burgers - pricing is the same. What we got could've been half a pound but the medium was cooked medium well and the medium well was cooked til well done. The onion rings were great though, seasoned with herbs, salt, and some kind of spices - thick cut so that an order is only 6 rings but they were hefty. My wife's conclusion - not as good as Ray's and I agree. 2 chee-burgers, 1 order of rings, 2 Allagash - $40 before tip. -
So I watch Hell's Kitchen and those dolts screw up plenty of dishes. Gordo apparently has no problem serving the food that's ready while some diners sit and wait for their dishes. I understand that's a TV show but I also understand that some times dishes get screwed up and you don't want your perfectly cooked food sitting under a heating lamp while they refire the botched dish. The alternative is to prepare new dishes for everyone, which means throwing away perfectly good food. There's no good solution to this problem.
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Free entrees because 1 was 10 minutes late? Holy shit, I need to bitch more at restaurants. I don't normally order dessert so free dessert to me is a poor solution if there's a real problem.
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From Baltimore Sun: I watched the last couple of segments of this show. One dude baked some mac 'n cheese, forgot to salt it. Formerly fat boy partner of Batali Joe Bastianich gives him the thumb down. Fat boy judge Graham Elliot Bowles gives him a thumb up because he has the secret ingredient - love. Where's the hurl emoticon? Gordo calls the sack's wife out on stage and asks her what it means to him to be on the show. Yup, the wife's whining plea saves the guy who forgot to salt his mac 'n cheese. Anyone else watching this train wreck? From HollywoodChicago.com
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I would get the tasting menu (assuming there are only 2 of you celebrating).
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This is kind of a slam on Joe's Burgers - more expensive than Ray's by far and not anywhere near as good so we didn't go there. Instead, we went to Evo. If anything, they err on the side of overseasoned and overcooked. We had 6 items: Alemejas (clams), bronzini, charcuterie, empanadas, kefta, and chicken kebab. The clams and the kefta balls were both really overseasoned. The excellent dishes were the fish and the empanadas - crispy but moist fish and flavorful yet perfectly cooked empanadas. I idn't try the chicken kebab and the charcuterie is pretty average. This place is loud as eatdrinkmore notes. The baby couldn't handle the din and knocked herself out.
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Let's update the pizza finds of this city now that we've digested some of the new pizzas. I haven't gone back to Red Rocks or 2 Amys recently but my top 5 are: 1-3 Orso, Red Rocks, 2 Amys 4-5. Pupatella, Il Canale Have not been to Mia's, Comet, Pucci, Radius, 7th Hill, and Moroni among the notables.
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Can Banco get us discounted tickets? Performance Dates for mascaraing my nut (please indicate whether you want the left or the right done): Sat, Sep 11, 2010, 7:00 PM Tue, Sep 14, 2010, 7:30 PM Thu, Sep 16, 2010, 7:30 PM Fri, Sep 17, 2010, 7:30 PM Sun, Sep 19, 2010, 2:00 PM Mon, Sep 20, 2010, 7:00 PM Wed, Sep 22, 2010, 7:30 PM Sat, Sep 25, 2010, 7:00 PM
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I think Angelo is not only a pretty good chef, he has really studied the past seasons and has developed a strategy to win. As with other reality TV shows, the strategy is devious. I think Angelo is primarily liable for turning Top Chef into just another reality TV show.
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After blowing all my dollar bills at Camelot, I went next door for some Malaysian food. Started with the Deluxe Sampler Appetizer of satay chicken, otak-otak, curry puff, lo bak, and po pia. The lo bak (described as crispy pork roll) is made with some pork by-product but it's delicious (reminds me of kishka or boudin). The po pia and otak otak were both good and worth trying. I didn't try the satay chicken and found the curry puff uninspiring. Another appetizer was the roti canai. The roti, even if house-made, wasn't better than the frozen ones you can buy at Great Wall but the chicken curry was quite nice (with very flavorful slow cooked chicken). The entrees were chili shrimp (more sweet than spicy, which is how it's supposed to be according to Wiki) and Assam curry fish filet. The shrimp flavor was good but they were slightly overcooked (which happens often in Asian joints). The fish filet was lovely, similar in flavor and consistency as the fish filet I've had at Ruan Thai and Nava Thai. The street food dishes were the curry laksa pork rib noodle soup and Hainanese chicken. First the chicken. I grew up eating something called white chopped chicken - whole chicken boiled and then chopped into pieces served with a soy dipping sauce. MK's Hainanese chicken reminds me of that and how boring it really is. I also did not detect much flavor in the rice. The laksa, in contrast, had all kinds of flavor and the pork and noodles really absorbed those flavors. Personally I think laksa ranks up there with floating market noodle soup, ramen, beef noodle soup, and pho as great Asian noodle soups. ETA: never been to Malaysia or Singapore.
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We will be going to Un Ballo in Maschera and Madama Butterfly. If you want to suck down some champagne and sleep thru the opera like I sometimes do, let's talk about which performance date to attend.
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I wonder if Angelo did kind of sabotage Tamesha by not pointing out how much her dish sucked? Could Angelo be that much of a snake as to befriend someone just to stab them in the back?
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At Great Wall they carry another brand (don't recall the name but it's in Vietnamese) with many more varieties than Wei Chuan but I agree with you that the Wei Chuan soup dumplings are the best. I was actuall thinking about start a thread with pictures of the packaging to help people shop.
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My point is she deserved to go home. Since when is this a discussion about my posts as opposed to the show? In response to you, I didn't notice much swearing by other chefs. Why is my post random when it is directly related to the person who got booted tonight? If you don't think she deserves to go home, let's hear your reasoning.
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Kenny is one of the most talented chefs on the show and he was on the bottom today. Did he drop F bombs on TV? Was he living in denial? Someone who curses and gets sent home for bad food isn't really a random event. Do you have a point?
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Tamesha did not come across as a sweet person. She was too easily influenced and did not watch her language on TV.
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Thinking about visiting Annapolis. Seafood sounds good. Any thoughts on the above mentioned restaurants and O'Leary's (which is recommended by Tom Sietsema)? Hell Point is the only restaurant with 2 stars in Washingtonian. ETA: Got a room at the Sheraton Annapolis on Jennifer Rd for $55 plus tax for a Sat. night thru Priceline. Just bid on 3.5 star hotels only. I've heard people getting it for $45 a night but I started my bidding at $55. Pets are allowed for $50 fee but for the same amount we can hire a petsitter and leave the dopes at home. Reviews not so good for O'Leary's, now leaning towards Hell Point.
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From Washingtonian chats: Todd: followed by: I have no idea what in Armstrong's response would elicit these quotes. The latter is particularly egregious.
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Eating at Montgomery County Fair
Ericandblueboy replied to DonRocks's topic in Washington DC Restaurants and Dining
Question for IP lawyers. Can the fair selling Bloomin Onions when that's an Outback registered trademark? My favorite food at Carnivals are gyros - the last one I had at the Bedford (PA) Fall Foliage Festival was better than any Gyro I've had in the DC area (actually, I've only had gyros in G'town, McLean, and Vienna). -
A more interesting question is - is quesadilla a wrap or a sandwich?
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The dining room is beautiful but there's no unknown superstar chef in the kitchen. The chicharon served on the bone was tender and delicious but the tiradito of thinly sliced flounder tasted only of lime juice. We ordered 3 entrees (for 2 people) because we don't find ourselves in the neighborhood very often. The lomo was the best - tender marinated hunks of beef. The Jalea (fried seafood platter) and aji de gallina weren't very good. The seafood platter consisted of small chunks of fish, scallops, octopus, and calamari - nothing offensive, the breading just didn't have any flavor and unlike Don, I don't find their 3 dippings sauces very good. The gallina was in large chunks rather than thinly shredded. The flavor simply didn't match what we had in Peru. On the positive side, the food was nicely presented and relatively inexpensive. I might go back and try Carbon, their Peruvian grill across the street. The Carbon menu includes: (i) anticucho of beef heart, (ii) choncholi -marinated milk tripe, and (iii) rachi - honeycomb tripe, marinated and grilled until crunch and soft (hmm....). In summary, good but not great. I suppose we're lucky to even have a restaurant of this caliber.
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If you asked and they declined to explain why the room is so warm, then I owe you an apology. I don't doubt it was warm but I would never accuse a restaurant of being so inept as to intentionally keep a dining room at 90 degrees - maybe they're trying to be green.
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Really or is this an exaggeration? Maybe their A/C failed, it's been known to happen. And then I read your other post: I think this is insane. There's no possible way they negligently (or are stupid enough) kept the dining room at 90 degrees as you implied.
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Random bitching - twice we ordered scallion pancakes (I ordered in Mandarin) and twice the waiter said to my wife- "Chinese pizza, very good." WTF?! The scallion pancakes are good but we know exactly what they are. It's not like I hide my wife under a rock so she doesn't know what a scallion pancake is.
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I looked at their online Chinese menu. Under their specials - chives and shredded meat (usually pork, maybe beef) Under the appetizers - they have a clear soup wonton (same wonton as the spicy version presumably, just not spicy) Under the cold appetizers - (i) garlic with seaweed, (ii) marinated jellyfish Under seafood - steamed whole fish (with soy, scallion), salt and pepper squid Lots of non-spicy veggie dishes Under pork - salt & pepper ribs, wood ear with pork, pork with sizzling rice, and there are lots of offal dishes if you're interested in those Under beef - scallion beef aka mongolian beef, also available as a lamb dish
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