KOK

A trip to the Westside Market (kind of like Lexington Market in Baltimore) is always in order. The Nauti Mermaid in the warehouse district had good food in a very casual setting.

Thanks,

Kevin

http://www.westsidemarket.com/

http://www.thenautimermaid.com/

Pick Temple, eh? When Giant sponsored him.

Damn Joe, you beat me to the punch. Izzy Cohen, we hardly knew ye.

Kevin

http://www.picktemple.com/

A restaurant in Bombay, India will change it's name after many complaints that 'Hitler's Cross' was offensive. Per the story, the owner said the name was only "meant to attract attention".

Thanks,

Kevin

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=456&sid=890430

I spoke with the manager at the Vienna Whole Foods and he has plenty in stock. I hope to get there end of this week or next, hopefully in conjunction with a trip to Eamonn's Chipper and Nielson's for frozen custard.

Thanks so much for the tip Ilaine!!

Kevin

Oakland

It's been over 30 years since I've been but the Cornish Manor in Oakland, Md. seems to still be going strong, and they have Veuve Cliequot on the wine list which is (to me) a plus.

I remember they had a special of 21 shrimp which I thought was the greatest thing in world way back then.

Thanks,

Kevin

http://cornishmanor.com/

If you possibly can, get to the fruit and vegetable strip sometime after midnight and enter the 4th level of purgatory, which is Primanti Bros. (pronounced Permanti's). It is the most exciting restaurant you'll find anywhere -- mixing .... hookers, garbagemen, commodity investors, motorcyclists, litérrateurs, etc.

She was a HOOKER? I just thought I was doing really well with her.

I'll second Primanti's or The Original for your late Friday night.

Thanks,

Kevin

I have memories of Carling Black Label, but they are not fond.

That's the smile of the week.

When I first went to Town Hall in College Park, Md. you could get a 16 oz. Black Label, in a returnable bottle, for 65 cents. After five of those, every girl in the place looked like Mabel .

Kevin

I'm looking for a jar of China Bowl Select brand Chili Puree with Garlic. It's a five or six ounce glass jar with an orange label and a black lid. I think I bought it last year at the Whole Foods in Clarendon but I can't be sure, and I haven't seen it anywhere.

I've seen similar stuff in other stores, but those have big flakes of what looks like crushed red pepper in it and the China Bowl brand is smooth (the hot sauce with the rooster on the bootle makes a version of it, but it's not what I like).

I'd be grateful if anyone can tell me where they've seen it.

Thanks very much,

Kevin

"Schlitz. No Schlitz ? Blatz. No Blatz ? Improvise." - Lt Colonel Frank Slade USA(Retired)

Hoo-ah!!!

Kevin

"My beer, is Rheingold, the dry beer".

And is Old Dutch still around?

Thanks,

Kevin

Is the Key lime pie being served at RTC?

Thanks,

Kevin

I agree, I only come here for the fajititas (which I do come for)...too many places sell tough over cooked fajitas. My only complaint was that Rio Grande skimps on the onions and peppers to accompliy them.

Do they still have the see-thru tortilla machine where the dough balls rise through a circulating doohickey while getting flattened and cooked to become tortillas?

Though it's over 5 years since I've been, they were always very good about making sure the onions & peppers were done enough, and also giving extra onions/peppers as well as tortillas.

Thanks,

Kevin

This has got to be MY biggest grammatical/vocabulary pet peeve - it's palate dammit!!

Palate, as in "The sense of taste: delicacies pleasing to the most refined palate"

...NOT "pallet" = A narrow hard bed or straw-filled mattress

A portable platform used for storing or moving cargo or freight

[end of outburst - please return to your regularly scheduled chat]

I knew others must have caught that. Only slightly more annoying than WET your appetite

Thanks,

Kevin

Is every restaurant a "chic" "hotspot" around here?

Yes. And they are all populated by either "cognoscenti", or "eye-candy".

Kevin

I am in Virginia, and with the exception of a rare family dinner at Sergio's in Silver Spring, I don't go to Maryland. There is just too much that I have not tried in Virginia, or DC. As for going to DC, I do it all of the time. I think that 25% of the dinners my wife and I have are in DC.

Ah, Sergio's. One of the most underatted places in the D.C. area IMO. Love their braciole!

Thanks,

Kevin

No more than 4 minutes had passed when Keeanu comes back and asked if were done.

THAT is the smile of the week.

Thanks,

Kevin

Has Hard Times fallen on hard times? I thought about swinging by Columbia for a free chili dog, but that location (and the Laurel location) is no longer listed on the website, and both phone numbers are disconnected. I seem to remember a lot more locations used to be listed in the website, icluding some outside of the DC metro area.

Perhaps the .25 drafts last year and the free chili dogs cut into profits.

Thanks,

Kevin

http://www.hardtimes.com/

Does anyone know where you can get the knishes? I didn't see them in the food court terrace.

The Kosher stand, and its knishes, is (I believe) located at/near section 220.

Thanks,

Kevin

It is done to protect the store against over-zealous enforcement agencies who will send young people into the store trying to get them to sell alcohol to them. These statements offer them additional protection.

I see your point but if the stores are only accepting government issued ID's, how would a signed statement asserting they are 21 make any difference. To me it would be like having a note from 'Epstein's mother'. And while I don't know for sure, I'd presume selling alcohol to minors would be a strict liability crime, like statutory rape. It wouldn't matter what ID was presented or what form was signed.

As TJaehnigen said supra, it's easier to shop elsewhere.

Thanks,

Kevin

What are they going to do if the person isn't really 21, charge them with making a false statement to a vintner? Ridiculous!

Thanks,

Kevin

One of the founder's of Pat's Steaks has died.

Kevin

http://kyw1060.com/pages/59393.php

That would be reliably slow, greasy, and disgusting. Nothing like the Nathan's of old - actually, I can buy Nathan's franks at Costco, and do a better job at home than the Nathan's stand in BWI.

Though it's been over six months since since I've been to BWI, it was no different than the hot dogs I had at their flagship on Surf Ave in Brooklyn back in April. Kobiyashi notwithstanding, perhaps Nathan's has jumped the shark.

K

WOW, we have our very own culinary penologist

Why the vitriol? (unless this is humor, which it seems not to be)

Kevin

BWI has (had?) a Nathan's hot dog outpost which has been pretty reliable in the past.

Thanks,

Kevin

While I agree that they should have been willing to "rent" Joe a glass, I don't see why they would have given Joe any special treatment. They probably don't know him from Adam, unlike the folks here in DC.

I should have been more clear in that by accomodating Joe, I meant they SHOULD have rented him the glass (still crappy IMO) since they wouldn't let him use it for free.

There would have been no reason for them to give him special treatment because in their eyes, he was Joe Schmuckatelli and not Joe H.

It's amazing to me that Joe offered to pay extra to use a glass and they balked at that.

Thanks,

Kevin