The causes being...well, me, Carrie, and Coltrane. I may even knock the snow off the barrel grill and try to smoke a turkey. I hope it won't turn out as dry as this one. Have a Happy New Year, fellow food lovers. See you back on the blog on Jan. 4.
File this under You Can't Please Everyone. Just a day after winning the debut D.C. Dish Hall of Fame contest, Ben's Chili Bowl gets cold water splashed on its face from Restaurant Rater RR, who writes about a recent experience:
The owners of Oya, the Penn Quarter restaurant with the red-velvet rope mentality, opened up sister restaurant SEI at the beginning of the year, and by most early reports, the modern sushi spot was a winner. Many months after those professional raves, Restaurant Rater audreys isn't quite so impressed. Listen in:
Long before the current crop of Italian newcomers started flooding our streets with pasta, there was Cafe Paradiso on Connecticut Avenue in Woodley Park. The neighborhood haunt has been around since 1989, back when some of the new chefs on the scene were still having their moms cut their spaghetti for them. "Tavi" is a [...]
You have to salute Mike and Elizabeth Bober over at Capital Spice. They know how to take one for the team. The husband-and-wife food bloggers have compiled a Google map featuring the places that made the Washington Post, Washingtonian, and the Washington City Paper's annual best restaurants lists. Just as helpful, they've also included the [...]
Y&H has been promoting the pleasures of fried whiting for years. It's truly one of the District's under-appreciated plates, which is why I was happy to see the whiting at Horace & Dickie's enter this week's leaderboard for the D.C Dish Hall of Fame. Granted, the dish still doesn't have enough votes to enter the [...]
Not the chops in question...and I don't plan to reveal the real ones. I may lose respect with Former Staffer (see below), but after considerable deliberation, I have decided to save my powder for another day. I'm not going to empty my guns on the unfortunate restaurant that caused me to seek the counsel of [...]
Rater jmiams likes Nava Thai OK, but really digs Ruan Thai. It really isn't fair that one community has so many good Thai restaurants. But as Restaurant Rater jmiams points, there are at least three Thai options in Wheaton, all of them worthy of your dining dollar. But this particular Rater has a thing for [...]
Y&H has received a number of e-mails today along the lines of this one from RW: I think the Hall of Fame should include those dishes unique or original to DC, of which there are few, like the half smoke or a curious dish called "Fried Good Dale" that appears only in Chinatown. Ben's dog, [...]
Unless you get the Y&H newsletter — have I mentioned that it's free just for giving us your e-mail address at right? — you missed my small broadside directed at Danielle, a Y&H reader who took me to task for not highlighting enough vegan and vegetarian dishes. She called me "worse than the Post," which [...]
