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some photos, excuse the crappy cellphone picture technology! Korean BBQ: Korean BBQ with Lettuce Wrap: Banchan: Dolsot Bibimbop: A random dish (not sure which one):

and I had to miss this for 3 hours of phone system training.

Location and ambiance would make this place the perfect neighborhood restaurant if the food didn't suck and the prices weren't usury.

Parc de Cerfs Communs 2006

Given the reputation of British food, should it be surprising Another execellent British food shop, although sadly in NYC http://www.myersofkeswick.com/main.asp

Dig around your apartment, empty pockets, cash in some loose change, find $8 and go indulge at komi.

Jacques as Jack Tripper???

Funny I had the exact same idea!

If you are looking for a quiet spot to celebrate a birthday/anniversary etc., need some place classy because the parents are in town and they are paying, or a civilized start to a day at the museums, give serious consideration to brunch at Bistro Bis. The restaurant is airy and modern without being stuffy, the fire place is warming, the menu is delicious, the $28.95 3 course prix fixe will fill you up, and being off the radar screen for brunch, you are guaranteed a spot. Brunch starts with a wooden bowl of assorted biscuits and breads, both sweet and savory...and perhaps a mimosa if the mood strikes you. The onion soup had a rich onion broth and a thick layer of gooey gruyere cheese, perfect for a city dressed in snow. The trout salad was a real treat, delicate presentation with a scattering of frisée, fingerling potatoes, hard cooked egg, bacon, capers and crème fraîche remoulade. Quiche Lorraine (ask for it to be warmed up, not room temp) was quite excellent, the eggs a delicate but rich custard. And if you like your forced meats, check out the charcuterie plate, which comes with at least 4 different types of pates and terrines and a selection sausages. Dessert are playfully plated, the white cholocate espresso bombe will fix your chocolate craving, while the poached pear bordelaise was delicious if you want a lighter ending. A perfect start to an afternoon of Cezanne.

Beer – I think a girl wearing a t-shirt and jeans while drinking a good pint is very sexy. I'd agree with that!

Several years ago during a snow day, my friend trudged across town in his jeep and we hit up the Hawk and Dove, place was hopping at 3pm..and we spent the afternoon getting trashed...good times.

seared sea scallops are always nice... or you could do a whole roast fish like a red snapper, drizzle of olive oil, lemon juice, sea salt etc. serve with a cous cous and roasted veggies or get some chunks of tuna and do a seared tuna, rare in the middle deal...black peppercorn or sesame crust... I like to go asian serve it with a ginger salad, you can buy the pickled ginger they use at sushi restaurants in jars at a good grocery store...make some brown rice...several different options with the tuna.

I believe the bacon-wrapped dates are baked in the oven...you should be able to find a recipe pretty easy on the internet. the pork tenderloin would be good at room temp, but then I would serve it more as a sandwich or roll up type thing like JPW suggested...although I'd still do the caramalized onions as a topping they would still be good. perhaps a drizzle of the pesto...yum!

An obvious one would be making a pizza with the trader joe's pizza crust with pesto, cherry tomatoes, and little globs of ricotta cheese (or other toppings of choice) cheese plate with the prosciutto and various cheeses butternut squash soup served in little shot glasses, buy some creme fraishe and drizzle a little on top buy some bacon and do some bacon wrapped dates, tapas style if you wanted to do one dish that was a "main course" roast the pork tenderloin, caramalize the onions, make mash potatoes and do a reduced red wine/stock pan sauce. cook down the mushrooms with the shallots and any fresh herbs and mix with the chevre and then make little phyllo dough pouches, little egg wash bake in oven until golden brown. peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream

well one of the owners is Masoud A, the mastermind promoter behind Platinum, VIP, Love (or Dream) and other cheeseball euro-trashy club nights, so one already has a good idea what sort of crowd this restaurant will be geared to.

as others have posted above, champagne, champagne, champagne...or else a personally prepared 5 course tasting menu and 3 bottles of wine usually does the trick!

To me American's are too fat for 3 reasons: Lack of exercise. Eating too much processed packaged food at home rather than cooking and eating freshly prepared food. Portion size, especially when they eat out, especially at national chain restaurants.

when presented with the following criteria from a friend visting over the weekend: inexpensive yet cool and hip, must be vegetarian friendly, must take reservations, some where near Ust and 14th, and not Jaleo and Zaytinya...Tabaq Bistro was about all I could come up with. So off we went. I'll give Sietsema credit, the tables are tiny and the menu is impossible to read because it's so damn dark, but the view from the roof top was nice. I quickly skipped the frou-frou drink menu because, well it was too dark to read it, and asked what beers they had...from a list of 4 beers the Turkish Effs was the only thing drinkable. After we had figured out 3-4 dishes each to order we sat back and enjoyed the view. Overall the food was pretty solid, but not great. The lamb shank with eggplant puree was tasty, although not as good as the Zaytinya version. The grilled tuna was rather sweet tasting from what I assume was the pomegranate dressing, but it was far too dark to see what I was exactly eating. Mushroom crepe not bad either, although it was lukewarm, food gets brought up to the roof top via dumbwaiter. The chef's special lamb (insert Southpark jokes here) was probably my favorite dish. The cheese platter of "Mediterranean Cheese" which went unidentified, contain something blue, something rubbery, and something that might have been manchego. and I liked the vegetarian pide. Both the hummus and babaganoush were servicable. and the spinach cigar was heavy on the cheese. So I suppose Tabaq Bistro has it's place in the DC market, some place to go before hitting the clubs or bars, where you can be hip and trendy and get decent food without spending a lot. A place to go with out of towners who want to go to a "cool" restaurant but who don't really care about food too much. or a place that's inexpensive yet cool and hip, must be vegetarian friendly, must take reservations, some where near Ust and 14th, and not Jaleo and Zaytinya.

we stuffed ourselves at Montmartre last night: started with: pate braised oxtail in phyillo mussels salmon tartar (could have used a sprinkle of sea salt to round out the flavors) beet tartar with goat cheese (just kind of an odd dish that didn't work for me) mains: hanger steak (I love this dish) braised rabbit roast red snapper dessert: pear and marzipan tart unfortunately they were out of the braised sheep cheeks, which is really what I wanted...

Is the lunch menu at Firefly the same as the dinner menu and are lunch prices the same as dinner prices?

As promised: on Feb 7 at 8pm, Lucinda Janke with be discussing "Breweries of Capitol Hill." Janke is the former curator of the Kiplinger Washington Collection and a historian of Capitol Hill. Naval Lodge Hall 330 Pennsylvania Ave, SE free, reservations required RSVP Overbecklecture@aol.com or 202/544-1845 no word if samples will be available

I have a sixer of Bass chillin in the fridge right now. I was reading the February copy of the Hill Rag and they have a small blurb about some local historian who is going to give a talk about old DC breweries (I'll try and dig up the info tonight) and apparently the Hill use to be home to two of the largest breweries in DC, one of which was located at the site of the crappy ass Safeway on 14th Street, SE.

Does Ceiba have a private room?

I would suggest bringing a little cooler or some freeze packs to keep the cold.

My brother lives in NYC and when ever we road trip down to North Carolina to visit the parents he brings a stock pile of pork pies and sausage rolls from Myers. I like the HP Curry sauce, goes very well with the Boxing Day Bubble and Squeak. And they mock English cuisine!