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    I haven't used cash since March. The smallest bill I have is $20. How do I tip hotel housekeeping?
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    I've hidden maybe 95% of the posters in that group. Repetitive questions, poor recommendations, ridiculous raves, restaurants pimping themselves, etc.
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    After much googling, I found out the Springfield location has outdoor seating, menudo and lengua. Unfortunately for me, the menudo has hominy (the flavor is otherwise decent). The tacos, while cheap at $2.50 each, were tiny. I'd guess the diameter is about 4 inches while Taco Bamba's is about 6 inches. So the surface area of the tortilla at El Paso is 2x2xpi and the tortillia at Taco Bamba is 3x3xpi, meaning the Taco Bamba tortilla is about twice the size of El Paso tortilla. I do like the tortilla at El Paso (but it is just a single tortilla as opposed to double tortilla at Taco Bamba). I also like the flavor of the lengua and the carne asada was decent. Their salsa is vastly inferior to the 4 sauces at Taco Bamba. In conclusion, I would not drive almost 20 minutes to eat there again (but they have lots of clients). ETA: many taquerias (here and in Mexico) make tacos the same size as El Paso (so they were small only compared to Taco Bamba, and I'm not saying bigger is necessarily better).
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    So they're still operating at 5104 Wilson Blvd. Any news on the lease? Which location has a patio?
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    Opentable has adapted well to the pandemic. You can search by time and for outdoor dining. Resy does neither while Tock only lets you search by time. So now I have to check 3 websites, and pore over the description on Resy and Tock to see if available reservation is for take-out, indoor dining or outdoor dining. And then there are restaurants that don't use any reservation network...pain in the ass just to find a place to eat while minimizing the risk of catching the rona.
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    Opening Han Palace in Tysons in mid September. Supposed to have patio seating.
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    Mostly people posting pictures and bragging about their own cooking.
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    Just opened a branch in Fairfax!
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    I was just surfing FB and came across this private group. Anyone else a member of this group?
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    Munich won the CL 1-0 over PSG. PSG had their chances but couldn't finish. I was watching the game on Univision so I don't know why penalties weren’t called on PSG at the end of the first half or the Kimmich foul on Mbappe. I just know that Neymar played a shitty game, whined like a little brat and I'm happy he hasn't won anything since he left Barca.
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    Chloe is a nice place for outdoors brunch. From 11-12, the outdoor seating area was completely shaded by the building. The pedestrians on the sidewalk were mostly masked and don't come close to the diners. We started with some Crispy Cauliflower, sauced with tahini, lemon, and garlic. This is a good dish, just don't double it up by ordering the Mediterranean Hero, which has the same cauliflower and falafel with a harrisa sauce. Skip the hero, you can get better falafel at Amsterdam. The best dish was Penne Pork Bolognese, with excellent execution on the pasta and sauce. The next best dish was the chunk of Crispy Pork Belly with pipian rojo served on top of a masa tortilla. Maybe it's a bit too heavy for brunch, or not. The dish that really didn't wow was the bitterly charred Spice Grilled Chicken with jalapeno-cilantro emulsion served over jasmine rice. The rice with green sauce was delicious though. The slaw was just undressed raw cabbage. We finished with some Crispy Churros.
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    Hit up Seacrets?
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    Barça got crushed by Bayern. The Catalan outfit looked slow and ponderous. They need to rebuild.
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    Does anyone listen to Men in Blazers? Roger Bennett, in his promotion for Draft Kings, said it's the best king since wan-king.
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    The Union opened in the that shopping center with Greek Taverna and Aracosia. The menu is quite diverse. They do have outdoor seating (but I don't know if they will serve you outdoors). I have not been. I've just been looking at my options for eating outdoors in McLean.
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    Fahrenheit is the only Chinese joint that I know of with patio service - so I had brunch there. They were out of every beer other than Blue Moon. But if you want to dine-out for Chinese on premises, you have at least one option.
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    A wonderful week weather-wise after Isaias blew through earlier int he week. It was still warm outside but not stroke-inducing so the patio at Centrolina was much more enjoyable. I started with a fritto misto of calamari and cod. The breading was light and crispy - more like tempura than authentic Italian but very good nonetheless. The manzo ( marinated charred flank steak, baby carrots, potato crosta, salsa verde), while cooked beautifully in the wood oven to medium rare, tasted only of smoke and not much else. It was also a bit chewy (at $28, maybe that's to be expected). The piselli (wilted pea shoots, peas, carmelized onion, guanciale) made eating greens pleasurable - I suspect lots of animal fat enhanced the flavor of the peas.
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    Another visit to try some old and new dishes. The old - clams The new, quail and cavatelli with rabbit leg confit. This was my third visit, and they gave me a little amuse of one bite gyro, and they comped me a glass of Simonet Blanc de Blancs. I thought the pasta dish was pretty amazing, the quail pretty tasty, and the clams plentiful. The neighborhood continues to be sparsely trafficked so sitting on the patio with large fans was fairly enjoyable even in the summer heat.
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    It’s the self-righteous devouring their own. What about nobody is perfect? Cancel culture seems to believe otherwise.
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    I enter the city via E-st. expressway and that's how I use to exit the city as well. I want to support the restaurants in DC, not its bureaucracy.
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    Got a speeding ticket from a camera in the tunnel under Washington Circle. I was doing 37 in a 25 MPH zone, fine is $100. The thing is, I think I've driven under there a few more times probably at the same speed since then. I used to go home by heading west on K St. and then turning south on 19th St (to get on 66)., but I noticed that no left turns are allowed anymore at K and 19th, hence I have to drive under Washington Circle and subject myself to grand larceny by the District. When did they disallow the left hand turn at K&19th? I wonder if they did that to increase revenue.
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    I don't think anyone is thinking long-term. You can get $600 a week to not work, so why work if the work pays less than that (and you put yourself at risk)? When the benefit runs out, you can always go back to your old job or get a new job. There's not a shortage of lower-wage jobs. I guess one way to reconcile the findings is that if you were making more than $600 a week before, then you would keep looking for a new job. If you were making less than $600 a week before, then why work when you can get more not to work.
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    Economists says the $600 unemployment benefit does not deter job seeking. I dunno...
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    I thought these are hailed as the best in the area but I agree with you that they're just okay. I like Santini's better but they don't give you a lot of meat. So where in NoVa is there a good Italian sub/hoagie?
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    I picked up a premade soft roll sandwich last week and didn't like the bread much. Is the hard roll better?
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