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:

1. Spike Mendelsohn Evicted from His Capitol Hill Rental House
2. H Street Country Club Swings Open Tomorrow
3. D.C.’s Unofficial Beer Week (Thank You, Savor)
4. Atlantic Food Declares D.C. a Great Food City
5. Spike’s New Pizzeria Is Coming to Cap Hill. But First: Souvlaki!
   

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 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 can’t begrudge someone’s dining opinion. The palate is too personal to start casting aspersions on anyone’s taste (though, God knows such activities make for good copy and reality TV.) But Kim, whoever the critic is, should have at least done a Google search on the place to help put this glowing review in better context; if you’re going to call Lauriol Plaza the best Mexican joint in D.C., you desperately need to acknowledge how far you’re going against the prevailing critical thinking.

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