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    new banner hanging across the front of the old Cafe Monti location. A restaurant called Maggio's is opening soon and it says it will be serving Italian and Greek cuisine.
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    Fresh berries topped with a dollop of sour cream and some toasted nuts.
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    The post-finale show aired and it was more enjoyable than most of the episodes this year. This, however, was the prize bit: http://youtu.be/4fcdPYU7p0U
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    I can certainly see a requirement for large parties to give credit card information against reasonable notice if they aren't going to make the reservation. And I can certainly understand restaurants asking for cc#s during prime time. Before I moved to this area, I was up here interviewing and staying with a friend who worked for the company. It was a small and chummy group, so the boss-to-be came over for some drinks before we headed out for dinner, and got on the phone and made reservations (on a Friday night) at 4 different restaurants -- and it would have been more if she had been able to get reservations at a few others. I was surprised. I was aghast when it was time to get ourselves out the door that she didn't call and cancel any of the superfluous reservations she had made and dismissed my concern that it was bad form. I did end up moving to the area and working for her for a year, during which time I discovered that her disregard of anything but her own whims extended to all comers. I guess the moral of my story is that I think that blatant over-reservers are giving you a peek at their true nature. Just like never continue to date someone who treats the waitstaff poorly.
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    I know there's a small market attached to Meaza on Columbia Pike that has lentils, spices, injera and teff for sale. I think they may also have some utensils.
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    I remember that Chowhound has a "Not About Food" sub-forum in their make-up. I checked it out a few times and there was some good stuff to be found in there, funny, informative, a bit insane at times, but good.
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    Wow, quite an undertaking! I understand what you mean about every so often, wanting to "cook big." I'm part of a group where I host a luncheon 1 or 2 times a year for a dozen ladies -- certainly not the groaning board that you've undertaken -- but being organized, planning a menu where folks can eat from a plate in their laps, timing things, setting a balanced menu for the low-salt peeps and the vegetarian peeps, etc. really is a fun challenge to do every so often.
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    Perhaps a sub-forum with a link-thru from this board, so the people participating there are folks who have already undergone the screening process for joining here? That will reduce the amount of trolls to contend with. Maybe call it "Through the Looking Glass" or "Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here."
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    Went with lunch today with a new coworker who is also somewhat a newbie to Vietnamese cuisine. We got there about 10 after 1:00 and it was packed but a 2-top was just leaving, so lucky for us. Everyone seemed happy and I wasn't hearing any grumblings about the pace of service/getting food out. There were two people waiting tables today and the back of house looked more crowded, so it seems as though they're learning the level of staffing needed to handle their customers. I got the pork vermicelli again, my coworker got the chicken lemongrass vermicelli. Came out very quickly -- maybe 4-5 minutes, tops, both plates made very well, plenty of fresh veg, everything cooked well. I managed not to burn my mouth on the imperial roll this time. . Service was friendly and quick. The restaurant pretty much had emptied by about 1:30, but that's lunch rush in Old Town.
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    I wonder if part of my (and maybe collectively our) disenchantment with Top Chef has come from watching Chopped with four (probably) talented chefs who do nothing but cook, with the only challenges being a strange kitchen, weird ingredients and time constraints? Of course there isn't a sense of connection or rooting for or against a particular chef, but for me the delight of these shows is the actual cooking. I think Top Chef Just Desserts was so much better than this season because there was more time & attention paid by the producers to the cooking instead of "What Weird Thing Will We Do Next"
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    Had dinner here with an old beau tonight. We met at Portner's back in the late '90s, each grabbing a quick lunch at the bar and struck up a conversation re: the house dressing -- a raspberry vinagrette, which was something fairly new and different then. Tonight's meal was very pleasant and the food was solid, the service was very very good. We started with an arugula salad (that was a sub for the butter wedge salad that had been sold through) with a creamy buttermilk dressing. They have 15-18 or so beers on tap. I got the Port City One, so dark that light didn't penetrate. It was less a libation and more another course to the meal. I can't remember what beer he got but it was a medium orange-y amber and had a bit of a cherry note to it. I preferred mine. He got the diver scallops with risotto and I got the mussels in white wine. Everything was cooked well and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Exciting and innovative? No, but it's not that place. Good, solid, friendly, comfortable? Absolutely.
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    Definitely closed. A for lease sign is on the property now.
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    H Street Country Club is actually an indoor miniature golf place that serves pub grub.
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    Can you rent out H Street Country Club?
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    Any of the three dates can work for me, slight preference given to Saturday for luxe and then Wednesday for chef's choice
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    And the caption reads "I told you so."
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    Really? TC Texas goes to Vancouver BC (why??) and they're cooking in a gondola flying between mountain peaks? WTF? If they wanted cramped quarters and motion sickness, certainly they could have put them on houseboats in Texas lake.
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    I'm interested.
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    Met up with friends here last night. We got several appetizers -- zhong dumplings were my favorite, dan dan noodles were good as well -- and then shared a mala hot pot with shrimp, bok choy, dried mushrooms and egg noodles. I learned the one thing I need to remember in the future for my hot pot dining adventures, which is don't let the non-cooks in the group be in charge of the hot potting. I was cringing inside when I would glance up and see them dumping the shrimp in then stuffing the pot with bok choy and killing the temp and then ignoring for far too long. It was tasty -- no diss to the kitchen there -- but, oh, my friends destroyed the textures. <sigh> Little rubber shrimp. Next time, I think I want to get my own pot or else go to Uncle Liu;s and try to exert a little QC on the cooking process. The restaurant is lovely and plenty of space between tables. Very few customers last night, but it was a Monday and the day before Valentine's, so I imagine they'll be slammed tonight.
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    I have heard back from my friend. She has 2 small children and has returned to work fulltime, and says she is sorry but she cannot take on the graphics work at this time.
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    Driving by this evening after work, I noticed all the lights were out and the closed sign hanging up. I've never seen that before there. There was a piece of paper taped on the front door but I was too far away to see what it might be and in the wrong lane to go over and check it out.
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    I have not heard back from my friend, and I haven't seen her on facebook for awhile. I don't know what's up. If anyone else has someone they can call on to help, please do so.
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    Well, I think the romantics among us may prefer a couples-only dining experience on the 14th -- Valentine's Day, don'tcha know. But if they want to come party at the Wok, I'm game. I got nothin' going this year.
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    I've got a very talented friend in Texas who is also a whiz at Photoshop drawing. Let me ping her and see if she can help us out.
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    I'm a dinner only as well.
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