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Category Archives: Restaurants
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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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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CakeLove, Tysons Corner Center, Tysons Corner, VA
Remember CakeLove? That cupcake store that’s not Georgetown Cupcake? It all seems sort of distant now, doesn’t it? Like the cupcakes, or not, give Warren Brown credit for being a visionary, spotting and capitalizing on a trend long before the … Continue reading
Posted in Restaurants, VA
Tagged Cupcakes, Gluten Free, Tysons Corner
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Tragara, Bethesda, MD
Fine dining is not dead. I’d walked past Tragara so many times in recent years that I’d convinced myself I’d been there, long ago. But when I actually went in, I realized that I’d never been in my life. Immediately, … Continue reading
Thai Noy, Arlington, VA
(See the March 25, 2011 Review here.) It was the end of an endless day, a 600-mile back-breaking drive back from Indianapolis with three teenagers, approaching Frederick from the west only to get a phone call saying that I-270 – … Continue reading