"That's a lucky seat, Miss," says the lone daytime drinker, standing on the side of the road outside a Bloomingdale housing complex. With one hand, he's holding a clear plastic cup half-full with a golden liquid. With the other, he's indicating the seat of my bicycle, which currently supports my ass. Generally, that sort of [...]
Frank Morales III, executive chef at Rustico, is addressing a group of ninth graders from the Minnie Howard campus of T.C. Williams who are considering restaurant careers. "When you get in the restaurant business, it's really cool," he says. "You get to choose where you'll work 80 hours a week." Morales is a natural ham [...]
James Robinson, 37, sits on a wood bench outside the Washington Hospital Center's main entrance. His right hand is completely bandaged up. His left arm has an empty IV port sticking out of it. Robinson has a complicated story as to why he's here. Last Thursday night, Robinson received a series of harassing cell phone [...]
Marion Barry is Ward 8 councilmember and a former four-term mayor of the District of Columbia. Favorite Restaurant: "Don't have one." Barry then goes on to name dozens of restaurants, past and present, that he has patronized. "Player's [Lounge, now Georgena's]—that's at the top of that list." There he favors the fish, collard greens, and [...]
Maybe this is a sign that, as that damn Peter Angelos said, DC isn't a baseball town: We've never been big on baseball bars and restaurants around here. Mickey Grasso, a mostly backup catcher with the original Washington Senators from 1951 to 1953, had an Italian restaurant at 732 14th Street NW before Grosso was [...]
This morning, during my rendezvous with baker Lindsey Kirtz: A woman is choosing a design for her daughter's cake. "Ooh, go with the blue frosting," she murmurs, glancing at the Giant bakery catalog. "And you want the yellow edges, right" Kirtz asks. The woman frowns and shakes her head. "No, no yellow. I don't want [...]
John Thomas and Colonel Boaz, both 56, Vietnam vets, and wheelchair users, place a lot of value in a smile. Thomas has been at the VA Medical Center at 50 Irving St. NW for a year and four weeks. He has gone through difficult back surgery and is waiting on a prosthetic leg. Boaz has [...]
A woman at the Subway sandwich shop on Good Hope Road SE has a special request. She wants the $5 footlong sub, with a twist. She wants to switch out the ham in the footlong club for the roast beef. That's an upgrade—only eight sub categories are eligible for the $5 come-on. The request puts [...]
