As remedies for cold weather go, it’s hard to top a shot of slijvovice and a heap of salty fish. Or at least, that was the conclusion I came to last weekend, sitting at a table near the bar at Domku Bar and Café sipping on the plum brandy and smearing a pâté of smoked [...]
The Spot: Domku Bar & Cafe, 821 Upshur Street NW, (202) 722-7475 The Cuisine: Scandinavian, Polish, Slovak The Go-To Dishes: Gypsy kielbasa sandwich, Swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes and lingonberry preserves, split pea soup with ham and applewood-smoked bacon The Scoop: Domku is the type of place that you can't just stumble across without having [...]
Mulled wine? Sure. No problem. But mulled beer? If we weren't so beer-obsessed, we may not have been willing to try it. But we couldn't help ourselves when we saw the seasonal drink on the beverage list at Domku last week. Piwo Pogrzewanie, Polish for "warm beer," is a spiced drink comparable to Glögg, the [...]
As soon as the Æbleskiver hit our table at Domku, Carrie had a flash of déjà vu. For my wife, these Danish balls of pancake dough brought back pleasant memories of her State Department childhood in the Netherlands, where the bite-sized breakfast snacks are known as poffertjes. Your own Y&H, however, had a flash of [...]
