Mark Halperin's illustrious “Gang of 500” haven't been the only power brokers helping to keep Tex-Mex stalwart Lauriol Plaza (ranked No. 38 on City Paper's list of D.C.'s 44 Most Powerful Restaurants) in business over the years. Yesterday's Washington Post profile of Philippe Reines, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's deputy assistant secretary for strategic communications, [...]
A tall Air Force officer walks into the new and low-ceilinged Cajun Experience restaurant in Dupont Circle, to pick up a carry-out order. He asks owner Bryan Crosswhite, who is situated on a bar stool, chatting and fiddling around with a broken door handle, if he knows of a dish called “gumbo-laya,” an admittedly fusion-y [...]
Here, once again, are the Top 10 items from the week, as decided by you, the loyal reader: 1. NBC Washington Calls Lauriol Plaza the 'Best Mexican Food in D.C.' 2. Food Tats: Cupcakes Are the New Skulls 3. The New Generation of Hershey's Kisses Cookies for the Holidays 4. When Sex and Food Go [...]
Earlier this week, I posted an item on NBC Washington naming Lauriol Plaza as the "Best Mexican" joint in D.C., which has generated a fair number of comments, pro and con, on the Tex-Mex behemoth. But some of the better commentary has come from other sources, including my own Gmail account, where a friend back [...]
You have to love the counter-intuitive chutzpah, the iron-willed stubbornness, even the screw-the-critics contrariness of Sery Kim over at NBC Washington who writes that, "Lauriol Plaza is sheer bliss," and that the much-maligned temple of Tex-Mex is "[s]uperb, superb, superb." She and the editors over at NBC Washington dub it the "Best Mexican Food in D.C." You [...]
