Posts Tagged ‘H Street Country Club’
Saturday Night Tasting Club: Hot on the Trail for a Decent Salsa
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The Shitheads convened Saturday night for the first of what we hope will be numerous Tasting Clubs in which we compare and rate (mostly) local products in the same category. Since lead Shithead Jim conceived the club, he deemed that we’d launch our endeavor by passing judgment on salsas.
It was a good and easy choice, and I say that despite the fact that Jim, Shithead Carrie, and I have, in the past, served as guinea pigs judges at the annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival — and have suffered the gastrointestinal effects of the same. But there we were, six Shitheads stuffing our faces with chips slathered in hot sauce until our taste buds were reduced to ashes. We had a ball.
We also had a lot of pumpkin ice cream to cool our tongues.
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H Street C.C. to Mix Latin Tasting Menu with Wii
Given the rather tight conditions (and general mayhem) at H Street Country Club, the mini-golf/Mexican eatery has had trouble accommodating parties of eight or more. So the owners have devised what they’re calling the Maxi Bar, which will be a private dining area where chef Pablo Cardoso can showcase his talents at creating South-of-the-Border small plates.
The dining space, located on the ground floor near the kitchen, will accommodate small parties for a multi-course tasting menu not available anywhere else at H Street Country Club, says owner Joe Englert. Cardoso, who has worked previously at Cashion’s Eat Place and Jackie’s, will offer an ever-changing menu of Mexican and Latin American small plates, which the diners can pair with either wine or tequila.
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H Street Country Club Changing Course
Honest Abe was attacked again.
If you’ll recall, back in May when H Street Country Club first opened, I tried to warn owner Joe Englert that several holes were vulnerable to attack from drunk duffers. He brushed it off like so much pet hair, saying the statuary on his putt-putt course, particularly the gruesome dead presidents on Hole No. 5, could withstand the punishment of Satan’s army.
Well, apparently not.
Just weeks after opening, some asshole broke the hands off the rotting skeleton of President Lincoln — and that’s not even the worst of it. “Someone tried to skull fuck Abraham Lincoln,” Englert notes. I’d prefer not to explain how this could be done to artist Lee T. Wheeler’s statue, but let’s just say there’s a wide-diameter bullet hole in Honest Abe’s skull.
Englert’s shocked, too, which is saying something for him.
This Week’s Greatest Hits on the Young & Hungry Blog
As you can imagine, the news of Spike Mendelsohn’s eviction took center stage this week on the Y&H blog. No other item drew even a quarter of the readers. But now, there’s good news on the Spike front: The chef and his erstwhile roomie have started to pay back their landlord, with the promise of a full accounting soon. While we wait for that, check out the most-read posts of the week:
H Street Country Club Swings Opens Tomorrow
Because Y&H has developed a warm, personal relationship with Joe Englert, Mr. Fatlas, I mean Mr. Atlas, District invited me to a sneak-preview of the long, long, long-awaited H Street Country Club on Sunday night, and I have just one thing to say: You’ll never get a tee time.
This place is going to have longer lines than Ben’s Chili Bowl during the inauguration. Everyone will want to putt-putt their ball between the bloated legs of a D.C. parking meter-reader who’s exposing just a little too much butt crack. Or across the Reflecting Pool and up the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial. Or between the decomposing bodies of several dead presidents. Or around a multi-car pileup on the Beltway. Or….oh, hell, you get the point. This is miniature golf as imagined by the Coen Brothers.
Come to think of it, some people might even visit H Street just to sample the Tex-Mex menu designed by Ann Cashion, founder of Taqueria Nacional. Well, maybe.
H Street Country Club Ready to Tee Off at the End of the Month
After months — no, wait, years — of delays, the H Street Country Club is set to open at the end of the month. So says Walter Nicholls over at BizBash, which even has a few up-to-date photos of the place (as opposed to the months-old construction crap above).
As fun as putt-putting my way around a miniature Washington Monument sounds, I’m even more interested in the Mexican/Tex-Mex menus conceived by Ann Cashion and executed by former Cashion’s cook, Pablo Cordoso. The south-of-the-border food has a decidedly modern feel. Think “masa puffs” with roasted pumpkin and poblano pepper, instead of old-fashioned stuffed gorditas. Or a tostada with mashed avocado and warm lobster salad, not a thick layer of lard and beans.
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This Week’s Greatest Hits from the Young & Hungry Blog
The Best of D.C. issue dominated readers’ attention this week on Young & Hungry, including my mea culpa about Best New Restaurant. It’s nice to see that teeth-gnashing confessionals haven’t lost their power to attract attention.
This Week’s Greatest Hits from the Young & Hungry Blog
It was an eventful week in local food. Kim O’Donnel went from losing her weekly cooking chat to launching another. Mark Slater got a new job, and Georgetown Wine and Spirits still can’t drop any bomber bottles. Without further ado, the Top 5 posts…
Things Just Not Flowing at H Street Country Club
Remember my post earlier this month about the H Street Country Club opening in late March? Scratch that. Looks like we’ll have to wait a bit longer.
This is, frankly, why I hate writing about opening dates.
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You Want It, You Got It: Another Opening Date for the H St. CC
It’s hard to read in the picture above, which I snapped yesterday, but underneath the H Street Country Club logo, there’s a small oval sign that reads: established 2008.
I have just one response: Ha!
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