John W.
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Enjoyed the Rainoldi "Inferno" V.S. '97 yesterday. Great way to drink Nebbiolo without paying a truckload. I think we spent $40 or less at a local restaurant.
The wine pretty much mirrored your notes, "T," with seemingly more pronounced fennel/licorice notes, and hints of prune to boot.
I found this pretty informative.
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Correct me if I am wrong but Yannis is long gone from BdC. True? Very unfortunate too.
No.
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I've seen the Chronicle too many times have columns like "100 reasons why we are the best dining city in the country" or similar for my taste, but I guess if you read it it's true.
Yes, we are worthy of being promoted, more now than ever. And with the likes of MR et al, it's no longer the "big fish, small pond" syndrome. And it's only going to get better.
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And hope that Sietsema begins to promote DC which I personally view as part of his role. We have the excellence that is worthy of this now.
Perhaps the new food editor will take note.
Read the SF Chronicle lately? The PR arm of the dining scene.
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To add to this...If you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one. Michel needs to please about 400 people a day, and he does that with ease.
Our little band of criminals have been going to BdC on Saturday nights for well over two years, I've missed maybe three episodes. We all drink the same things almost without fail. When they see me, the hoes flow. When they see Mark, the Cap'n flows. If you go anywhere with that type of frequency, then perhaps you'd receive the treatment as well. Does being a restaurant 'insider" or VIP help? Of course it does. But I think it's not as weighted in that direction as you'd think. We still pay the same as the rest of the joes, we still wait for tables, we just get our drinks faster.
For the record, I know of one person that has been banned from there. I've been told to get fucked (had to match the profanity) when asking for big wine glasses. I've had not 3 star Michelin correct service there too. And I sit up right (and not falling over to defend BdC, or Falling Down, which is a documentary) as I type this. If you count the restaurant types, my unofficial tally was three dissenting and 4 in favor. Not quite unanimous.
It is what it is.
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I heart Bistrot du Coin.
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Rocks, that was beautiful.
Maybe I'll try the 4 times in 48 hours technique.
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Who's up for BdC tonight?
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Cheesecake factory is packed too....
No offense, but Mark and John, you two are restaurant VIPs and would never see this at your table. For that matter, I get treated very well there. But I have seen some horrible stuff there.
Its backed because it has decent food, great hours and its trendy to be doin' it Parisian-style with the kids these days.
If all of the above is true, please explain why the place is packed all the time.I've seen some horrible stuff in a lot of places. I just don't go back.
I've also seen Michel pull off the most gracious things I've ever seen anywhere to people he didn't know.
One man's poison is another man's Le Bureau.
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Must be packed with pricks. I know for a fact it is every time I go.
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"Seriously, Tom, there must have been over 100 flies" swarming all over the bar at Palena? Indoors? In December? In Palena? Perhaps they were attracted by the fact that the poster is so clearly full of shit...
The only problem I had at the bar at Palena on Friday night was that I left before the decided-upon allotment of Guillon Gevrey Chambertin was depleted.
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Yes it was mystifying why they had the unused seating area unless they were short of servers. I am keeping an open mind and attributing the glitch (if it was a glitch) to opening week shakedown issues. It was too bad that it was so crowded at the bar when we were in there -- I quess it was around 8ish (the whole evening is a blur now
) -- that we didn't feel like fighting for some of the apps. I will definitely have another go at it in the near future.Restaurants typically will try to limit seating during the first few weeks of being open, although speaking with Josh Radigan (the guy who put the wine list together) it seems anything but a soft opening.
I'd have to say the wine list is pretty sick. Good thing this place is in Virginia, I'd run out of cash quicker than a misguided Restaurant Week diner at Citronelle.
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Sounds suspiciously like miniburgers to me.
An antidote to mini-burgers.
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Something to save youse all from your own hell -
"Three little piggys" at DG. Three excellent black pepper bisquits, each adorned with a different pork style. Can't recall exactly what was in them, but I do recall ordering two more when the first one came. Not three invariably overcooked tiny patties of meat.
Greggory Hill's new pork technique is unstoppable.
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Some of us will be stuck working :-(
Working. But at least we'll be working where the booze is.
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thanks, that's what i figured but i wasn't entirely sure. Looks like I will have to conduct a taste test when i get back into town, kinda like the pepsi challenge. except with rib eyes. and probably not blindfolded.
Totally different. Michael's is more of a glaze, and arrogant, ours is more classic French (but equally as arrogant). We can help with the blind part.
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who is the michael in the "michael's rib eye diablo..."?
Really?
Why, it's Michael "His royal Arrogance" Landrumm, of Ray's the Steaks Fame.
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Yup. Here is the scoop from the website
Wined Down Happy Hour
Sip away after work - from 4:30 to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday, Firefly is pouring a different red and white wine, with a common thread between them. Some are from our wine list and some are offered only during Happy Hour. Enjoy Chef Wabeck's special Happy Hour menu, just perfect for sharing.
Apologies to all of youse, but our lounge is closed today , November 11th, for a private party until 8:30 tonight, rendering happy hour impossible.
Don, please to remove this when deemed necessary.
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Decanting the Bordeaux Michael?
How arrogant.
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"Let's not unman each other--part at once; All farewells should be sudden, when forever, Else they make an eternity of moments, And clog the last sad sands of life with tears." - Byron
R.I.P. Nectar. Its on.
es ist tatsächlich an
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I hate to spoil everyone's evening, but the much sought after (among many other phases) Mr. Derek M. Brown will not be attendance on Friday (or tonight or Thursday for that matter).
We are looking into a sign (similar to the gentlemen's clubs around the corner) that would state right out front if his adorableness is holding court or not.
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I had an acceptable cassoulet at the Cote d'Or (now apparently renamed Bistro des Celestines) in Arlington a few months back, and the Duck confit at Mendocino (not a full cassoulet) is scrumptious.
The best thing I have ever eaten in my life is cassoulet last winter in Minervois, I'd like to do better than acceptable.
Restaurant Week, January 10th-16th, 2005
in D.C. & DelMarVa: Dining
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True that!