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    I spent quite a bit of time tasting VA wines in...2006-08 and they weren't that great. The exception was Barboursville and the Kluge Estate. Now I am prejudiced against VA wines based on experience. Yet, I am willing to open my mind to them...I also like driving around and spending time outside so win-win!
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    Thank you all. The conversation did allow me to push back with conviction. I think we'll be able to improve the choices although not by much. Not that this is the topic of this thread but some of the food was quite good considering this is service for 350. "Andrew" the chef, I am told, comes from Blue Duck. Of the 6 appetizers I tried, the mini crab cake was fantastic though a bit floppy to be hand held. The "Mini" lobster roll could have used some salt, but was otherwise fine and very generous. Of the three salads, the poached pear salad with endive, spiced walnuts, blue cheese, and arugula was stunning to look at but the least flavorful. My table-mates disagreed and thought it was a very fresh start. My favorite was the generous charred broccolini salad with a bug old hunk of burrata, prosciutto and parm. Crisping up the prosciutto was magic in my opinion but might be cheating in other opinions. Loved all three main options with the grilled filet of NY strip being really tender and easy to eat with the potato puree and horseradish jus being quite wonderful. Sea bass was great with the porcini broth being such a stand-out that I'm curious about how this place does soup. But the best, in terms of flavor, by far was the veggie entree. Curried Fried Cauliflower with caper raisin puree was amazing. Absolutely amazing.
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    I know, RIght? That's why I posted here. Secretly I wanted an expert opinion so when I go back to the hotel I could intelligently be indignant. Yes, this is a work event that has to be in DC. When I first saw the list I thought that I've had them all, they all aren't great, and are less than $10 at Total Wine.
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    Interested...need space for 400 although expecting 350 this year. Don't want a too big space. Nice too. "fancy"
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    Ah-choo intercontintial the warf Ah-choo
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    What do you think about this for a large-scale dinner? Our house Wines: Hogue Chardonnay $50 Hogue Cabernet Sauvignon $50 Hogue Merlot $50 Champagne: Chandon, California, Brut Classic $55 Chardonnay: Kendall Jackson, Russian River, California $55 Sauvignon Blanc: Kim Crawford, Marlborough, New Zealand $55 Other Whites: Pinot Grigio - Danzante, Italy $56 Pinot Blanc – Trimbach, Alsace, France $55 Pinot Noir: Meiomi, Sonoma County, California $55 Cabernet Sauvignon Kendall Jackson, Alexander Valley, California $60
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    I LOVE THE ZOO! But many people don't so I didn't suggest it. <having Cat's Meow flashbacks now>
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    My pleasure. How about lunch or brunch here: http://www.galatoires.com/ Sunday brunch is a family affair. Bar opens one hour before kitchen and it is a scene. Historic tasting = http://www.antoines.com/ and https://www.arnaudsrestaurant.com/. DO a drink and app at each. (pronounced ARE-Nos) IMO best mufalatta is Napoleon House but that can also cause massive fights http://www.napoleonhouse.com/ Herbsaint has a great rep but I haven't been because I just go back to the old places I used to frequent. However, Now that I am boycotting August, I;ll try to make it there next (as yet unplanned) trip. Have fun! As a bachelorette, everybody is going to hit on you, possibly even gay men and straight women.
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    OMG Barcelona; loved it (and yes, I think Gaudi is Gawdy). But the city is amazingly beautiful and the architecture beyond my words. I'd like to vote for Sevilla and Cadiz. They are smaller cities but each unique. Saville has a church built on a mosque, built on a church plus lush gardens and fruit grows wild. Cadiz has a million little churches with millions of little euros worth of gold, silver, and shiny stones in them. Gotta see it to believe it. I could go on and might later. Spain is small, we are talking trains here. I went to Barcelona with 3 yr olds and expecting. Because we dinned early, we discovered first hand how family-oriented the city is. Since pregnant, I was treated like a...Madonna even getting free cups of soup and wine-fruit-drinks (very weak). The kids were encouraged to run around the restaurants (if they were near empty) and proprietors enjoyed speaking pre-school Spanish with our American kids. I went to Sevilla and Cadiz while a very poor grad student. The Churches are basically free little history museums. I also remember listening to a lot of free music. I still have some pottery from that trip including my current sugar bowl. Enjoy yourself. I need to go back and take the little girl. She'd love it because that child will eat everything.
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    But I didn't feel the "blood" with the higher scoring men's performances. I did feel the blood with the women; pretty much all of them except the 15 yr old under the Olympic flag but I do realize that's my opinion and I cannot ice skate or play music on anything other than a radio.
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    NO is one of those cities designed to walk so here are some walks/things to do: 1. Walk down by the river. The ferry from NO to Algiers point used to be free to pedestrians. If it's not, it's likely cheap. 2. Walk the French Quarter. St. Anne's sort of marks the start of the gay side of the quarter. 3. French market: It's in the Quarter, near the river. 4. Get on the street car and go to city park...see art, walk the park. 5. Look at antiques and art on Royal. or ...art and random crap on Magazine. 6. Do the Zoo, Aquarium, museums. (FYI: after I grew up I realized that the NO aquarium is some sort of tax break/media thing for big oil. It's got this reef made out of an oil platform so forget about the dangers of drilling in the gulf...fish can live here!) 7. St. Louis Cathedral is always open and does free tours throughout the day. (if it's not obvious, all this stuff is free or really low cost with the exception of #6. I wasn't exactly affluent when I lived in NO). "It's Fudge TIme" = free fudge after watching the guys make it. Please don't eat at Mother's.
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    I object to an ice skater FALLING and getting a higher score than a beautiful and graceful (though also athletic) and flawless program. Also: I am bothered by technically amazing but choppy skating. Tara Lipensky was the best example of it but I saw a couple of examples last night too.
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    Happy Lundi Gras y'all. These are the two days of the year that I most resent working. It's 11:25 am and there is not fruit juice full of rum anywhere near me. :-(
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    If it is, I don't care what it looks like; Crayfish Clone Invasion Feb 08, 2018 Researchers first became aware of the marbled crayfish when a German aquarium owner contacted them in 1995 after a bag of "Texas crayfish" took over his aquarium, the Atlantic reports. The crayfish, dubbed Marmorkreb in German, turned out to be parthenogenetic clones of one another and have since been found in the wild in Germany, Italy, Slovakia, Sweden, Japan, and Madagascar, it adds. Researchers led by the German Cancer Research Center's Frank Lyko sequenced the marbled crayfish. As they report in Nature Ecology and Evolution, the marbled crayfish is triploid with a 3.5-gigabase-pair genome harboring more than 21,000 genes. They also found that it is closely related to the slough crayfish, Procambarus fallax, the New York Times notes. Lyko and his colleagues suspect that the marbled crayfish came about when two slough crayfish mated, but one of them had a sex cell with two complements of chromosomes, rather than one, the Times adds. The resulting female crayfish could then reproduce parthenogenetically and spread rapidly. The Atlantic notes that when the researchers compared the genomes of 11 marbled crayfish from spots from all over the world they found that the crayfish had few genetic differences between them all. This, the researchers say in their paper, "support the notion that the global marbled crayfish population represents a single clone."
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    How hard is it to land a rocket on a drone ship (which is a fancy word for a barge with no souls on it):
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    I watched many shuttle launches yet was blown away by yesterday's launch. Rocket boosters are now recyclable. Watch two land in a beautiful space ballet here:
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    That's a little harsh. I was building off Don's comment upthread. I love Indian food but just think Rasika is overrated or takes itself for granted having built up a clientele and reputation. I know many people who love it and have dined with them there often. Also, the sentence should read "masses of ignorant fools WHO don't understand".
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    09 Amarone della Valpolicella. Was it just bad or did it not age long enough?
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    All night I thought of the reductionist views of women over time and of me over my life. Speaking of meta...I"m just glad time's up for blatant misogyny and that it's my actual full-time job to call it out in this one area of our system. Anyway, regarding Rasika, what the hell is up with people's love of that place? Every time I go, I think it's not that great, and they aren't even trying that hard. Now Bombay Club on the other hand, is great and they try to be great.
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    IRL I am much more careful with the written word and do see how it was unintentionally funny. I had a big, chewy, horrible red last night. 6 people for dinner and there's still some left.
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    Yes, we are. :-) Not sure if this is relevant content but I really enjoyed this thread. I find commentary on one guys opinions far more interesting than the original source material. This is not a hit against TS but rather a broad complement to the creativity on this thread.
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    Bottled!
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    Staff are the same people I saw last time we did a post hair-cut snack stop but don't know if ownership is different. The inside got a face lift. FWIW: Mary's barber shop is really nice. Lots of men and little kids get their hair done there plus free water.
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    Had a sushi craving and sushi zen was closed for lunch today. Edamame: Excellent Salmon and eel rolls: quite nice Tonkatsu Ramen: Amazing! To quote my 4 yr old "I love this Mommy, thank you!" Fatty salty broth, nicely done egg, cooked in broth cabbage; and a brown egg. It's worth mentioning the egg a third time as I refer my yolk a little runnier in soup. Nice springy noodeles. My only complaint is the serving was pretty small but then again, my girl also said "I'm fuller than full."
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    Between I-66 and C'Ville is one about half way down and if headed south, on the left. Love that place. It's really, really busy but always clean and full of friendly employees.
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