dcs Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 In today's Washington Post: Washington looks tantalizing to New York's restaurateurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go for Gin Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 More dining options is always a plus, I just hope the prices are reasonable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs Posted August 23, 2010 Author Share Posted August 23, 2010 More dining options is always a plus, I just hope the prices are reasonable. No doubt. But I sometimes wonder where this is headed. First you had Mom and Pop restaurants. Then lower end chain restaurants started eating into their market, followed by middle-range chain restaurants. Now we are into the phase of more upscale resturant chains (not just chain restaurants but common ownership establishments), both local and regional. What is next? Or am I just thinking too hard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go for Gin Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 No doubt. But I sometimes wonder where this is headed. First you had Mom and Pop restaurants. Then lower end chain restaurants started eating into their market, followed by middle-range chain restaurants. Now we are into the phase of more upscale resturant chains (not just chain restaurants but common ownership establishments), both local and regional. What is next? Or am I just thinking too hard? That's a good point. Chef's like Bobby Flay are very talented, however I start getting an uneasy feeling when they get involved in too many ventures, possibly resulting in a decline in the quality of food. It remains to be seen how well these restaurants will do. In the meantime, it provides more competition in the area and maybe other restaurants will try harder to impress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoramargolis Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Makes Michel Richard look like a prescient genius--he got it that DC was fertile ground for fine dining many years ago, and eventually he moved here to run his restaurant, closing his far-flung satellites in L.A., Santa Barbara, Tokyo and Baltimore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Landrum Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I believe at one point there were 53 traveling casts.... Tom's dream restaurant I *think* there is one black person somewhere in there (the one that escaped the Kaplan* system). *Not the Mahler gang, but this one. Ooops I meant to link to this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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