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    Don - while Jonathan may have a differing view - I have had a very positive experience using the "Baking Steel" to make pizza as well as reheat leftovers.
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    I love Sauternes but haven't spent any time learning about it (my experience with it is really based on others ordering it)- any recommendations?
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    I still get the "search by location" which if you click down "District of Columbia" there is a small drop down icon you can click that pulls up all of the pertinant neighborhoods.
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    I was in there around 11:01 and didn't come away with anything - I keep looking back just in case there was a system error but I'm not super optimistic. I'm going to try and swing through in the "quiet" time between Christmas and Thanksgiving.
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    Touche I had one of their sandwiches - I think the meatball sub (which I liked) at Union Market. This was more, my family loves to have little snacks leading up to the big meal and I have had positive experiences with their sliced meats in the past. I went with their Charcuterie board and a pound of scrapple (b/c I don't care what its made of, I love it) which will be delicious with hash and poached eggs the next day while I put up the Christmas tree.
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    So I'm thinking of picking up some charcuterie for thanksgiving (to just add to the gluttony) - however, I can't for the life of me find out what their offerings look like. I was planning on going to the Merrifield location on Tuesday (I'd imagine Wed during the day might be a mad house) - but wanted to get a sense of what the offerings are, specifically: - is it just sliced meats that you can pick up to take away? - do they have chicken liver mouse? - would it make sense to just call in an order to say "I'm looking for enough charcuterie for 4" and have them just put something together? I only have experience devouring some of their sandwiches at union market but figured I'd see if anyone with experience at the Merrifield location could weigh in. Thanks! EDIT: I love NRG restaurnts, but hate their websites - I found the google docs order form on the RAB site.
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    I know this is late as many of these beers are off the shelves in favor of the various Christmas ales hitting the market, but I figured I'd lay out a few pumpkin / autumnal beers that I enjoyed this year: - Schafly Pumpkin Ale - until last year this was one of my favorites - but for whatever reason I felt last years iteration was very light. Thankfully, this year they remedied it and it was more of the darker / boozier style that I had come to enjoy. This moved back up to one of my favorite seasonals. - The Bruery: Autumn Maple - I had this at Snallygaster with my wife and she begged me to find it in the DC area (I ended up finding two at Rodmans). What a delicious beer without the overbearing sweetness that some "maple" beers can have. Great balance between squash and a maple taste that fit right in vs. smacking you in the face. - Saucony Brewering: Pumpkins Maple Mistress - Another Snallygaster beer that I found on a trip back to visit my folks (in the Lehigh Valley - this beer is produced in Kutztown, PA). More of a clear maple taste than the Bruery but still managing to stay in balance. Also some clearer spice notes here - was surprised to see that it clocked in over 8% if I remember correctly. It hides the booze well. - Weierbacher Imperial Pumpkin - this used to be one of my favorite pumpkin beers - but for whatever reason it tastes "thin" to me now. Not sure if they've adjusted the recipe or if my tastes are changing. Seeing as it's brewed in my hometown (Easton, PA) - I still grab a 4 pack each year, but it made it to the last pumpkin beer left in the fridge this year...not the best sign
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    As a heads up - it seems the sheer volume of Great Lakes Christmas Ale sent to the dc area really went up this year. Whole Foods Tenley had a bunch yesterday. The Great Lakes Twitter feed (@GLBCinDC) had a bunch of tweets showing where it was available in the area.
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    It is definitely - there are a number of scripts / functions. Some if it is dependant on which email client you're transfering emails from - gmail to gmail is easiest but aol or yahoo to gmail aren't a huge issue - if you are on a service that doesn't allow PoP access (I believe yahoo mail runs into this) then it gets a bit more challenging but it's still doable. Don - happy to lend a hand, although some additional clarification on your 4th point would be a bit helpful. Are you looking to mask the email address?
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    Ugh
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    It's my sincere hope the new owners don't try and replicate A-Town in the space - otherwise that block genuinely will turn into essentially Adams Morgan (at least the Adams Morgan I remember of about 9 -10 years ago). It's such a beautiful building - hopefully they don't turn it into a frat house which is essentially what A-Town is.
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    Agreed - I'll echo what the others have said - when I use the guide on my phone I always miss the places with multiple locations. Even if it's implemented in a rudimentary way, I think it would be a huge help.
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    My wife and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary at Komi last night - it's been over 2 years since our prior visit and I found it to be as wonderful an experience as I remembered. First, I genuinely love the service here. Not severe. Not over the top. Just comfortable, like you're eating dinner at your coolest friends house and just catching up. In terms of what we ate, a few tidbits from my memory: - Trout Roe on a puff of dough - Uni with brown butter aoli and sea beans - Yellow Tail collar with zatar (my wife and I basically fought over the last bites of this) - Foie Gras with roasted cauliflower - Suckling Pig (I could eat mountains of the crisp skin...the subsequent heart attack be damned) The wine pairing was great as usual - particularly the initial white that came out post champagne, I mentioned it tasted slightly like petit manseng...sure enough later in the meal, two extra wines were presented that had petit manseng in them b/c "they happened to be open" Just a wonderful meal. Yes it's an indulgence, but Komi is 2 for 2 in making me feel that its money more than well spent. DC is lucky to have them.
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    Just to circle back, I ended up using 1-800-Got-Junk b/c of the tight delivery timeframe for the new furniture and the lack of space to have 2 big sectional couches sitting in my basement at the same time. I scheduled the appointment on Wednesday evening, they arrived at 3pm on Friday and took about 45 minutes. It was a positive experience, the two guys who showed up couldn't have been nicer and really busted their humps to get a very unwieldy 3 pieces of furniture out of my basement without doing any damage to the house for a reasonable cost.
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    Thanks for the helpful suggestions - I hadn't even contemplated Goodwill / Salvation Army b/c I didn't realize they actually did pick up. The couch is probably in good enough shape for them to take it so I'll start there before moving on to the other recommendations.
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    I'm looking to have a big three piece sectional couch removed and disposed of as we have a replacement coming. I debated putting it on Craigslist for free, but really don't want to deal with the hassle that could turn into and am willing to pay for the certainty that someone shows up on time, has their own crew and truck, and is in and out relatively quickly with minimal hassle for me and my wife. Has anyone used a company and had good results?
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    I actually fail to see how this is a counterpoint to deserving the accolades. I understand the component "of all time" vs. "modern yankee history" and if that's your point I get that. He also really reaches in terms of his "list of 11" - how many of those are post 1994? Oh right, 2 and Mussina and ARod are pretty laughable comparators.
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    I also tried it during Snallygaster and thought it was delicious and well done. I also liked the Wedding Ale that they had (I'd never seen it before). Not worth $27 for a six pack, but very well done.
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    Bernie seems to get bundled into the Paul O'Neil, Tino Martinez, Scott Brocious side of the equation more than the Andy, Mo, Jorge, and Jeter - unfairly at times. I'm not sure why as I always viewed him as being a superior every day player to the former group.
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    I remember the first time I saw Jeter play, in 1995 against the Cleveland Indians at the old Yankee stadium. I was 12 at the time and left the game with a ball signed by a then unknown (to me) shortstop who would figure prominently in my sports fandom for the next 20 years. I (and all other Yankees fans I'm sure) will miss seeing him on the field...candidly, he's tied up in every good Yankees memory I have and it will be very strange for me next season without him (and Mariano, and Jorge, and Andy...). As an aside, next to the ball I still have the ticket stub from the game...field boxes along first base at Yankee stadium, face value: $14.00
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    Fresh mozzarella and heirloom tomato caprese salad Parisian gnocchi with fresh corn, cherry tomatoes and chives 2013 Villa Wolf Rose
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    One of my favorites that I've been drinking a lot of this summer has been the J.L. Wolf, Villa Wolf Pinot Noir Rose from Germany. I had it first at Screw Top in Arlington - and went back and picked up a half case. Its the only local place I've found it - and last Friday they hadn't received any more of it. Hopefully they'll grab some more prior to the end of August. I've enjoyed the Glen Manor Morales Rose as well...I'm not sure what it is, but I've been drinking a lot of Roses this summer. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I now have a patio to sit outside and enjoy them on
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    We're planning on going for 2 weeks - I've been working on my wife (after reading the other threads on the value of slowing down while there) but it's a work in progress and I fear it may take a trip that is slightly more rushed than I'd prefer to prove the point. I also had a friend who lived in Bologna (but visited Cinque Terre and in addition to much of the rest of the country) who mentioned the same thing around the recovery from previous storms.
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    My wife and I have recently decided that we're going to travel to Italy (it will be my first time travelling to Europe) in late October. As I genuinely love Italian wines (particularly from the Tuscany and Veneto regions), I wanted to reach out through this forum to see if anyone had specific wineries they would recommend. A few points: The areas we'd be travelling to are: Fly into Rome Montalcino Cinque Terre Verona / Venice We're going to take some of the advice and rent a car and travel through the country side and at the moment it looks like we're going to leverage some of the "agratourismo" lodgings in the country (we have not booked just yet). We're not shooting to hit a lot of "touristy" places, instead the focus is more on visiting some interesting wineries and restaurants. Any recommendations on places in any of those locales (in addition to the pretty robust thread above), particularly wineries that others have visited, would be greatly appreciated!
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    I agree - I did laugh at that.
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