Category Archives: VA

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Backyard Barbecue, Arlington, VA

(See the January 31, 2011 Review here.) On certain Saturdays at noon, Backyard Barbecue roasts an entire pig in the parking lot out front. Today, it was a 60 pounder, and they were selling fantastic Pulled Pork Sandwiches ($6.99), tonged straight … Continue reading

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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

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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

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Pasa Thai, McLean, VA

Pasa Thai is one of the least-known established area Thai restaurants that I can think of (although there are really getting to be quite a few). It’s in downtown McLean, right next to Evo Bistro, and has been open for … Continue reading

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Mala Tang, Virginia Square, VA

It was July 4th, and getting late into the day. Fireworks weren’t in the plans, but we were getting hungry, and quickly running out of options. At 8:30 PM, Washington Blvd. was more deserted than I’d ever seen it, with … Continue reading

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