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PollyG, Hannah
Thanks for the directions, I figured these had to be hidden in those industrial blocks. Looking forward to trying them both. Thanks for pointing them out.
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Jamaica Jamaica on Spring Street: This new carryout serves downhome Jamaican fare. If you want the jerk chicken for lunch, better get there early since they have been known to sell out before noon. The other menu offerings include goat stew and oxtail stew. Their fried plantains are very good and less greasy than most renditions. They are open for dinner carryout, too.
Sphinx Kabob on Spring Street: Despite the name, they're Persian. There are plenty of good kabob places in Reston/Herndon, but if you want to dine in, the furniture is ornate here while the others are all cafeteria style. They offer a chicken kabob special for lunch which is just a few pieces of chicken (no 3000 calorie lunches!) and rice for about $5.00. At night they transform into a hookah bar. Staff are friendly and there is a great assortment of middle-eastern sodas.
PollyG, where on Spring Street are these located, over in the industrial park area?
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Does anyone else love the latte bowls from Anthropologie? I have more than I can count...they're so cheap, they lend themselves to collecting.
I just happen to be looking at those during my brief walk to the mall on my lunch hour, those along with the sale items at Pottery Barn, Willams Sonoma and Sur La Table. I must confess I showed great restraint and only bought a Latte from Starbucks.
I have the addiction, or is it affliction?...please help.
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I recall a doctor I know socially mentioning that the wine with the highest concentration of red-wine-is-good-for-you stuff in it is Bully Hill's Love My Goat... an upstate New York winery with a fun story and an irreverent streak.
Most of the red Bully Hill offerings I have had in the past are on the sweet side and could be had for under $10 a bottle.
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Here's my go to spot for all things diner. American Diner Museum
I'm enjoying the blog Chirs, however I was sidetracked to the 9 page thread on StudioKitchen thanks to your wife.
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One thing DH and I would NOT do, however, is invite over couples with children, unless we knew a tactful way to make sure that they had a babysitter. Why? We don't have a childfriendly home. Our animals aren't very kid-friendly (my dog doesn't mind a pet or two, but stop means stop-this-second and my cat is... testy). And furthermore, mainly, in fact, we don't WANT children in our home. There's a reason that we have no children ourself... we're not really child-friendly people. But, in the same regards, we very rarely accept dinner invitations from a couple with children because we don't want to have to deal with that. At all. (We solve this problem by not having many friends with children!)
here's what we say when we want to invite over our friends and not the kids, we say "would you like to join us for an adult dinner party?" that pretty much clues them into the need for a babysitter.
Misa here's something else for you to consider, someday most of your friends will grow up and probably have kids-it happens. You keep up your mature attitude toward children and you won't have to worry much about inviting or invites, no parent will want you around with your "don't want to deal with that" attitude toward thier children. Unwarranted rudeness to children is untolerable, just because you're not into it yourelf.
Back when I was younger, I too, thought that I didn't want to have children. I now have three, and they happen to know how to behave when mom and dad throw an adult dinner party. Never say never.
I think no one should ever have children again - ever, no place in the world - ever.Think of all the problems that would solve. Within 100 years or so there would true world peace.
Rich, I'm guessing your just looking to ruffle some parents feathers with you're well thought out comment. Peace to you.
I gets pretty annoying after a while, as a parent to read some of the foolish comments on this forum when it comes to children. As its been said elsewhere, there are no bad children only bad parenting. My $.02.
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Since my wife is from Ipswich and the family is still there, I've had many the chance the past 15 years to dine on clams throughout the North Shore. The best we've had as others have mentioned, was at the Clam Box. Bar far the best plate we ever had was one afternoon about 2:30ish right after they had just changed/cleaned the oil in the fryers. Absolutely the best tasting clam plate I have ever had wasthat day, we haven't been able to time it right since. Altough I will try again in July all in the name of research.
I to grew up on the HoJo style fried clam. Fortunately for me, we lived right near a clam bake grove, so right from a young age I learned to apprecaite them raw and of course properly steamed with melted butter.
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Boony Doon's Big House Red (complete with Stelvin closure) is also a good budget-minded option! Haven't had the white.
You should be able to find that at World Market for under $8 a bottle. Some friends of mine used it for thier wedding as well-check it out. A nice drink at a nice price and the label art is fun too.
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A few years back we did a CSA with a farm out past Hillsboro, VA (can't remember the name). We liked the exposure to some items we had not tried before such as shard and kholrobi. Some weeks seemded a bit redundant but it was always a nice variety and quantity. The drive out to the farm for a pick up was a bit much after a while but the kids liked to visit and see the animals they had out back.
This season we signed up with the Potomac Vegetable Farms, much closer to home. We're very much looking forward to what they have to offer and we also opted for the weekly flower share.
If you can go with the flow and try new items and menu ideas, its well worth the effort in my opinion.
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You realize most of your time, money, and psychic energy are going towards acquiring, preparing, and planning the ingredients for the next meal.....and the food industry isn't your profession.
All your friends and family give you cookbooks/le Creuset/ Williams-Sonoma gifts as presents.
You realize the happiest part of the holidays - -the part you will best remember years from now - is the food you all shared together.
This about sums it up for me-perfectly.
Spend most evenings reading through cookbooks or magizines. I have 6 cookbooks from the library currently needing my attention.
Of course, my friends and family give me the above mentioned gifts because I request them specifically...
and I purposely purchased a nice le Creuset fondue pot to start the holiday tradition for the kids-chocolate fondue...
yeah, that pretty much describes me as well Susan.
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another web designer hear with an opinion and a beef... consider this, in addition the useful information that many others have stated-how many times have you visited a site to view the menu and/or wine list only to find it outdated and in many instances outdated by many months/seasons or years.
Keep in mind, its cost money to create a website. to host a website and to most importatnly to MAINTAIN a website. Money and energy better spent in the kitchen/restaurant. If you can't maintain the site, it becomes useless to the user after the second visit. You get them in the door with food and service not a flashy website.
and skip the music...
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I catch Thirsty Traveller now and again and am also amused by his progressive inebriation as the episode wears on. The grappa episode was a highlight: slurring, trailing off, staggering, oh my! And I do like the cooking segments, brief as they are.
Loved the grappa episode as well. The best is near the end, when he's with the winemaker who's tanked as well, and they have to "bleep out" his cursing (winemaker) as they knock down the grappa. Classic. Would keep me watching the show just to see it happen more often.
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I had a very enjoyable meal back in late September at SBC. Our waitress was very chatty and friendly with us along with providing exceptional service. When asked about wether SBC was staying under current ownership or being sold when 21P opened, she informed us it was being sold. I beleive she said, the sous chef was staying on to work with the new owners to keep the quality offerings in place. A subsuquent follow up visit from my neighbor reconfirmed that as soon as the buyers ABC liscense was approved, so would the sale.
This is just what I heard through asking, not trying to start or add to any rumors.
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After hearing my friends rave about how good Red Robin was especially for the kids, my wife and I took the family to the spot at the Dulles Town Center. We had a half-hour wait at 6:30 on a Monday night-things looked promising-crowded, must be a good spot, right?
We get seated and close to a 20 minutes go by and not even an acknowledgement from our waiter. He was to busy with the soccer team party of 20 to even give us a nod or send anyone else over. After getting the attention of our hostess and mentioning the lack of service, she took it upon herself to wait on our table for the rest of the night-of course at this point its now 7:30 and she had no lines to seat.
While I could see the appeal for the kids on a visual level, however, it was the usual kids menu offered just about anywhere. Of course all my kids really cared about were the french fries that kept coming to the table.
I have to say the fries were the best part of our meal. I can't recall what "gourmet" burger I had, but I could not finish it due to the overwhelming sodium content which overpowerd the taste. I pulled out the beef and finished it alone...not bad, but not great.
Will I go back? No. Less hassle to go the the Fuddruckers down the road.
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We have a hot dog place called Heid's which is sort of a local institution ("Food You'll Like" is the motto on their cool Art Deco building). It was a major shock to purists and local hot dog fanatics when Heid's began offering ketchup as well as mustard. For ficty year or so, since their inception, they offered nought but brown deli mustard and relish for their dogs. Many local dog-hards were outraged when the premises were desecrated with the red stuff
I grew up in Syracuse and a trip to Heid's on a Friday night was a real family treat. Hoffman hot dog, big pickle (on the side) and a chocolate milk. I learned at a young age mustard belongs on a dog-thanks mom/dad.
For three summers in the early 80's I sold Hoffman Franks and Coney's (white hots) in Franklin Square in downtown Syracuse. For my biased palate nothing compares to a finely grilled Hoffman on a new england roll and a nice line of mustard. I'm here to tell ya, a coney with sauerqraut was a great early morning cure for to much canadian brew the night before.
I'm overjoyed to have Wegman's here in Northern VA, so I no longer have to bribe and cajole friends to bring me a stash of dogs when they come and visit. Danny Wegman, I love you man.
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Brooks,
Whats the latest update on the kitchen? I have a turn-of-the-century farmhouse so I've read with an eye for future reference, in case I get the urge for a kitchen rehab as well. For now, I'd be happy to replace the tile countertops.
Are you making progress toward the halloween deadline?
Thanks to both you and Steve for some informative and interesting reading.
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SWoodyWhite, now that the summer crowds are winding down out your way I hope we can expect to hear more from you. I've enjoyed your reviews thus far and look forward to the post-summer follow up.
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That said...I drink Straub, Yuengling Premium and Lager, and High Life on occasion. But the worst beer of this type is certainly not Pabst. It's Utica Club.
Having been born in Utica and taking many a FX Matts brewery tour back in my college days, I feel the need to stick up for the home town brew. Chilled and with a pizza, Utica Club ain't to bad. You want bad, try a Piels. Having had many a six-pack walk in the door with dad at 5:30, I can tell you first hand that's some nasty brew.
As for the High Life, I have to say on a warm day, a nice cold bottle takes me back to 1980, high school and a big cold quart bought with a fake ID...
but keep it cold, that smell being discussed was often refered to as "skunky" and didn't taste much better even with the pallete of a 16 year old.
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eG Foodblog: Ling & HhLodesign - The cool kids at Belltown Lofts
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The peach "foie gras" did it for me.
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IC#1 9
Please tell us how the peach worked in contrast to the flavor of the corn soup. I'd also like to know what you cooked the peaches in, is that butter? I'd like to recreate this dish at some point-it looks great.