Comments on: Spot Check: Marvelous Market on Dupont Circle

By: dave

dave — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:57:44 +0000

Yesterday I went by Dupont Marvelous Market and they were closed by the health department for rodents!

You are a moron foodie frank and all the rest who would pay way too much for hype-not quality, unless you like the rats and mice with a little ham and cheese frank!

By: The Hard Realities of Commercial Bread Making - Young & Hungry - Washington City Paper

Thu, 07 May 2009 18:50:16 +0000

[...] Ziebold awarded the baguette only 10 out of a possible 20 points. Mark Furstenberg, founder of both Marvelous Market and Breadline, scored the bread slightly higher, giving Feillet 11.5 points, but his comments were [...]

By: Furstenberg’s Street Food Restaurant Will Stretch Far Beyond Bread-Based Snacks - Young & Hungry - Washington City Paper

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:34:11 +0000

[...] Believe it or not, the origins of Mark Furstenberg’s forthcoming G Street Food can be traced to a turbulent period in the mid-1990s when the master breadmaker was being forced out of the very business he started — the then-groundbreaking bakery, Marvelous Market. [...]

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:04:53 +0000

Since baguettes are best eaten right away, whoever it was that you approached probably has a lot of integrity. Shoulda been a contender.

It would not be prudent for me to make a recommendation; I rarely eat baguettes. However, if you’re looking for really good bread around here, head out to the streets.

By: Tim Carman

Tim Carman — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:06:58 +0000

Good question about the baguettes. I tried to secure at least one farmers market baguette for the competition, one that I think is terrific. But I couldn’t get the baker to ship me some. (You’ll read about it on Thursday.) Which ones would you suggest for next year’s competition?

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:34:41 +0000

Oops. “…to have tried a panino…” Never good to play Grammar Police.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:19:33 +0000

I’ve not lived long enough to try a panino in a remote, 19th-century Tuscan village, and as most of us know, culinary practices change over time. Nonetheless, Italians do not pile their sandwiches high with the number of items you find in Italian subs in the United States. A layer of mozzarella and one of seasoned, cooked spinach, thinly spread between two layers of bread. Prosciutto cotto and artichoke hearts in another. Etc. Basta cosi. Panini wait in glass cases in corner bars for sweaty workers to come in for an espresso and complain about the way Americans confuse nouns (Tuscany) and adjectives (Tuscan).

Tim, are you ONLY covering store-bought baguettes in your column or are you acknowledging the loaves brought to farmers markets throughout the metro area?

By: Tim Carman

Tim Carman — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:14:25 +0000

Hey Foodie Frank, did you read this review or did you just decide to play the ignoramus on purpose? You seem to forget that Marvelous Market was founded by Furstenberg who also founded Breadline. That he was the one to give both places their importance and character in this city. Do you really think it’s the stretch you portray here? Didn’t think so.

By: Foodie Frank

Foodie Frank — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:30:23 +0000

Interesting how City Paper compares the Marvelous Market of today with the Breadline of yesteryear, during “its Furstenberg heyday.” Why stop there? Does MM’s prosciutto and mozzarella sandwich compare to that of the local butcher’s in a remote 19th century Tuscany village, where the artisinal loaf was in the baker’s oven only mere hours before it was cooled, piled high with glorious ham, cheese, oil and basil, and placed in the mouth of the farmer just coming off a hard day’s work in the fields?

The bottom line is that Marvelous Market is what it says it is – a high end convenience store – and it is, for the most part, very successful in this role (never mind the ailing Tenleytown and Ballston locations). Their food quality follows suit – not the best, but far from the worst, with a hefty premium for the convenience. Thank you, CP, for pointing out the obvious.

By: Weekly Roundup: Pretty Things Edition « ModernDomestic

Weekly Roundup: Pretty Things Edition « ModernDomestic — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:14:08 +0000

[...] Young and Hungry reviews the baked goods from Marvelous Market. Maybe this only means something if you work in Dupont (or used to, like me), but I found their assessment (they’re not fans) to be utterly fascinating. [...]