Hot Plate
The Dish: seafood soup
The Location: El Tamarindo, 1785 Florida Ave. NW, (202) 328-3660
The Price: $10.95 (according to the restaurant, price will rise to $12.95 next month)
The Skinny: Think of El Tamarindo’s sopa de mariscos as a brothborne seafood sampler pack. If you don’t want to choose between crab, fish, mussels, or shrimp, this mixture served up by the Adams Morgan stalwart means you don’t have to. Granted, those ingredients (and veggies like pieces of green peppers) don’t always complement each other exactly. It is, after all, difficult to get, say, a shrimp and a mussel on the same spoonful, and fishing out and eating the seafood was a challenge my table manners weren’t always adequate to. But that’s a price worth paying for a little variety. The dish’s overall heartiness may make it a better choice for a miserable winter night than a warm summer day, but messiness and all, the soup works fine when you know you want some seafood, but you can’t quite narrow down your preferences.
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July 12th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
When I am constipated and need to take a raging dump, I go and eat the food at El Tamarindo.
July 12th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Like anyone cares what you think, whackjob
July 13th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Thanks for sharing, JR. Forgot to take your meds today, hmmmm?
July 14th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Sorry guys but there are some restaurants in DC not worth taking your dog to or do you care? Better yet, as full of shit as many of you are, maybe a good case of the raging &^&&^ would be healthy!
July 14th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Taking dining, fashion music or political advice from that deeply disturbed vulgarian is like asking a chimp for advice on not-throwing-your-own-feces.