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Also big congrats to our dear friend Don with this wonderful mention! Viva la Society of debate and discussion!

I am getting so tired of this chat. Per the Colorado kitchen comment, I was there Sunday AM with 4 people. We entered the resturant at 11:10 to find many tables free but were nicely told by the very young hostess that they were understaffed. She sat us as soon as possible and told everyone else the same thing. I saw this poster berate this girl and almost got up to smack him in the face. WHY ARE PEOPLE SUCH A**holes these days?

No. Carpaccio is raw beef but by no means steak tartare. Steak tartare is gound/chooped beef with a raw egg, mustard, spices, etc. Now I'm curious. What do you mean by beef tartare? Initially I assumed raw beef dishes in general. Now I'm not sure. ←

I love that stuff. Its basically from where Delphine was born. So wonderful for lunch while skiing. Try to us thick bacon! A small cast iron pan adds a nice touch. Getting a bit late for tartiflette? Whole Food has good reblochon well-priced. Not a cheese you really need to worry too much about higher levels of quality. ← I ran across the word "reblochon" on here the other day and I immediately associated it with tartiflette and I thought, I have not made one in a while. ←

Getting a bit late for tartiflette? Whole Food has good reblochon well-priced. Not a cheese you really need to worry too much about higher levels of quality.

Wow, thats a well-thought out contribution, isn't it?

Agreed. We lived in Neustif am Walde and went to school in Salmannsdorf. Grinzing was verboten. Even 30 years ago when I was there, Grinzing was a tourist trap. Armies of tour buses would pull up and clog the streets. 2 hours later hordes of weary, drunken travelers full of baked chicken and new wine poured out into the narrow streets. Something you want to see only once. Much more fun was to hop in the car and journey out to Gumpoldskirchen or Coblenz. ←

I know we are veering OT but did you try the stelze (pork). The skins gets so delicously crisp. A decent version can be had at Smith and Wollensky

jawohl! Dort esst man gut!

I am sure they have. I do remember warning visitors to ask for 'alte' weiss wein and not the neue weiss. Neue gave you the s**ts One of the most memorable meals of my life was had at Zu dem Drei Husaren in the first district near the Stephansdom. Service, food and ambience combined into something magical and something I had never experienced before. Austrian whites have come a long way since the days we used to swill liters of cheap plonk. ←

I was a kid (7+) and those were among the best years of my life. However, in the 1970s-1980s Vienna was certainly not the foodie destination it is today. Certainly the local specialities were and are wonderful but fine dining was a joke at the time (according to my parents) so we made frequent culinary trips to Italy and France. I still maintain that most Austrian wine (especially Red) sucks......

I lived in Vienna for 8 years and we only took visiting tourists to Damel.

They make it fresh table-side at Les Halles and it is quite good. However, they ask you what you want in it and how much of each ingredient. This is problematic if you don't know the correct proportions. I once 'made' one that had way too much mustard. Now I just ask them to make it as they see fit. The tartare at The Guards is made fresh for each order. Those at BdC and Bistro Français are good, but seem to be made ahead of time. ←

These drinks sound nasty: ←

I love this patron review from the post: Post on Cloud

Thats not Euro, thats moronic and insecure Americans. God DC is full more more so-called 'hip and trendy places' that are neither (note to readers of Washingtonian, if the magazine calls a place 'hip' it either never was hip or ceased to be hip last year). Why people insist on calling this behavior, which is either American, Persian, Arab, Russin, etc. EURO is beyond me. I have been to more clubs is Europe that are waaaay more laid back and about the music than you can shake a stick at in wannabe-DC (clubs like ESL, Platnium, 1223, Dream, etc). A place like 1223 with its hairdressers and car dealers all dolled up would not last 15 minutes in Paris or Berlin where they have real clubs. Don't be so insecure everyone! PS: The cloud place will almost for sure be very Spank-like. Expect bottle service and plenty of black. ← Wear lots of over priced black and look down your nose at people who dare to wear less expensive black, all the while drink the new hip drink whether you like it or not. ←

What exactly is the Eruo clubbing thing?

Agreed! That article made me cringe and thought: what do those people in Logan Circle do to deserve this?

Six months? Dinner, pearls? Slow down cowboy! Offhand, some more romatic and centrally located places: Little Fountain Cafe, Al Tiramisu, Cashion's.

Folks, its Le G-A-U-L-O-I-S. Sad to hear of its decline. I worked there one summer and learned so much from Bernard about French cooking.

Can you smoke cigars there?

Welcome aboard Jill! Keep us posted of your happenings.

Michael and Jarad: Do you remember this guy? Well may I suggest a new policy?

I think Slavin's is good. Canon is ok. I love going to the waterfront though. It seems so old style. Whole fish, so many vendors. But you have to be a judge of seafood there. Remember to always tip!

Ah, c'mon...am I a "control freak" because I sit in my same chair at my dining room table & eat food either cooked by me or my husband 5 or 6 nights a week? I think his routine sounds great - wish I had that budget ← Thank you. I love how people rush to judgement with so little information.