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Author Archives: Don
The Little Grill Worker-Owned Collective: Minibites, January 8, 2012 – January 14, 2012
Minibites are delicious samplings of Don’s culinary adventures, condensed, distilled, and always meant to be savored with your Monday morning coffee. The DCDining.com Restaurant Guide, i.e., Le Grand Champ, is located exclusively on donrockwell.com. (For an extra shot, click on the … Continue reading
Posted in DC, MD, Restaurants, VA
Tagged Bakery, Breakfast, Carryout, Chinese, Collective, Dive, Falls Church, Fine Dining, Front Royal, German, Harrisonburg, Jamaican, Modern American, Pan-Asian, Penn Quarter, Petworth, Seven Corners, Soul Food, Springfield, Swiss, Szechuan, Teahouses, WiFi
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Little Serow: Minibites, January 1, 2012 – January 7, 2012
Minibites are delicious samplings of Don’s culinary adventures, condensed, distilled, and always meant to be savored with your Monday morning coffee. The DCDining.com Restaurant Guide, i.e., Le Grand Champ, is located exclusively on donrockwell.com. (For an extra shot, click on the link … Continue reading
Posted in DC, MD, Restaurants, VA
Tagged American, Bethesda, Boonsboro, Breakfast, Burke, Cajun, Chevy Chase, Chinese, Cocktails, Coffeehouses, Deli, Dim Sum, Dupont Circle, Falls Church, Hamburger, Indian, Inn, Italian, Merrifield, Pizza, Rockville, Thai, Washington Circle, West End, Wheaton, Woodley Park
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Posts of Distinction: Selected Writings on donrockwell.com, 12/26 – 1/1
Happy New Year and good Monday morning. Here is the third in our trilogy of Holiday Tributes to the outstanding members of donrockwell.com, without whom there would be no document of lasting value (and yes, I consider donrockwell.com to be … Continue reading
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Posts of Distinction: Selected Writings on donrockwell.com, 12/19 – 12/25
Good Monday morning (h/t – Mike Allen). Here are just some of the marvelous essays written by our members during the week of December 19th through December 25th. From our “Washington, DC Restaurants and Dining” Section El Antojito (diningwithdoc (terse … Continue reading
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dcdining.com’s Christmas Present to Washington, DC
The dining community has been good to me, and opening up the Washington, DC dining guide to the public, at least for a little while, seems a fitting way to say “thank you.” Please become a member of donrockwell.com. It … Continue reading
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Posts of Distinction: Selected Writings on donrockwell.com, 12/12 – 12/18
I’ve said it many times before, and I’ll say it again: donrockwell.com is worth nothing without its wonderful members. The content on the website is so bountiful that it becomes easy to take for granted, easy to assume that it … Continue reading
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Mike’s Deli at Lazy Sundae, Falls Church, VA
Mike’s Deli at Lazy Sundae isn’t much more than a short-order flat-top grill, but it’s putting out one of my favorite down-home breakfast dishes: Corned Beef Hash ($7), with two eggs (over-easy) and buttered wheat toast. This might not sound like … Continue reading
Posted in Restaurants, VA
Tagged Breakfast, Corned Beef Hash, Falls Church
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A Vegetarian in King’s Dominion, Implied Asterisk
La mujer que llora (Pablo Picasso, 1937) Happy Monday, an entire week spent prepping for the ordeal, forsaking all animal proteins save dairy (I’d give up meat before I gave up dairy), starting with back-to-back-to-back Indian at Masala Art, Indian Ocean, … Continue reading
Posted in DC, MD, Restaurants, Uncategorized, VA
Tagged Amusement Parks, Argentinian, Cocktail Lounges, Indian, Italian, Mediterranean, No MSG, Thai, Vegan, Vegetarian
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Mourir de ne pas mourir
L’Amoureuse Happy Labor Day (and unofficial last day of summer (hat tip: Allen, Éluard, McCarthy, Saramago)), Knock! Knock! Knock!, <groan>, 8 AM room service serving as a wake-up call to September, coffee and tea served in the impossibly elegant suite at the … Continue reading
Posted in DC, Restaurants, VA
Tagged Airlines, Cleveland Park, Courthouse, Modern Italian, Modern Spanish, Steakhouse, Wine
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