Posts Tagged ‘Breakfast’

Young & Hungry Dining Guide by the Day: Taqueria Nacional

One by one, we’re running through the 50 restaurants that made the cut on this year’s Young & Hungry Dining Guide. If you have visited the day’s featured restaurant, let us know what you think. If you’re planning to visit for the first time, tell us about your meal when you return. I absolutely refuse [...]

Young & Hungry Dining Guide by the Day: Market Lunch

One by one, we’re running through the 50 restaurants that made the cut on this year’s Young & Hungry Dining Guide. If you have visited the day’s featured restaurant, let us know what you think. If you’re planning to visit for the first time, tell us about your meal when you return. As the name [...]

Thumbs Up: Mayflower Breakfast Buffet!

The saying goes like this: Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper. It's old wisdom, and I'm not sure how well it has stood up to modern nutritional studies. But to the extent it remains a good way of life, I recommend putting the proverb to work at the Mayflower [...]

Can a Die-Hard Coffee Drinker Be Satisfied with Green Tea in the Morning?

There wasn't a drop of coffee to be found at the Shanghai House of Tea when I stopped at the Glover Park establishment at 11 a.m. today. I knew there wouldn't be, and even if there were, I didn't think I had the stones to ask for it. It'd be sort of like asking for [...]

McTrotsky Breakfast Sandwich Is Not Just for Commie Capitalists

Sometimes in the morning, when I'm not feeling loaded down with work, I like to get lost (briefly) on the way to the office. It has its benefits. You discover places you never knew about, like Rhode Island Reds Cafe on (where else?) Rhode Island Avenue in Hyattsville. Owner Chris Brophy wasted no time making [...]

Daily Food Blog Roundup: Random Sample

People are brilliant. People are mindless cows. Today's roundup has a bit of both.  Chow.com tells us how London's fast-food chicken outlets have escaped the Colonel's hatchetmen, including the creatively named Kent's Tuck Inn Fried Chicken.

Breakfast in the Wii Small Hours of the Morning

I found myself hugely amused by this skit from British comedy troupe, Idiots of Ants, which turns the simple act of making breakfast into a competitive video game.

Please Drown Me in the Refried Beans at Taqueria Nacional

The disappointments were stacking up yesterday morning by the time I took my huevos rancheros back to the car. For reasons I couldn't explain, I wanted a plate of warm, airy beignets dusted with powdered sugar. Maybe all the talk of Mardi Gras had made me miss New Orleans. I don't know. Whatever the reason, [...]