Posts Tagged ‘Chinatown’
Capital Chefs: Mike Isabella of Graffiato (Part 2)
Mike Isabella’s Pork and Beans
courtesy of bonappetitfoodie
Pork belly, the stuff of Gods. And if you’ve had the delectable version at Graffiato, you know exactly what I’m talking about–melt in your mouth pork with that nice seared, caramelized outer edge, complimented by a roughly pureed bed of cannelini beans. Chef Mike Isabella shared the recipe [...]
Capital Chefs: Mike Isabella of Graffiato (Part 1)
Mike Isabella of Graffiato
courtesy of bonappetitfoodie
Chef Mike Isabella describes himself as intense, focused and driven. And at first you might be intimidated by the tattoos or the serious face when he asks a line cook about a certain dish, not to mention his culinary prowess that landed him on Top Chef and as a [...]
Chinatown Coffee Goes to Eleven on 11/11/11
Looking for a way to celebrate the very auspicious date of 11 11 11?* How about watching the movie that made eleven famous, This Is Spın̈al Tap. The phrase “Up to eleven” has its own Wikipedia page because of this movie, after all.
Chinatown Coffee has got you covered with a screening starting at 7:30, complete [...]
Cuba Libre To Open On September 17th
‘Cuba Street Sign’
courtesy of ‘Khirol Amir’
The embargo is officially over: Cuba Libre Restaurant & Rum Bar will open its doors on September 17th in Penn Quarter. With outposts in Philadelphia, Atlantic City and Orlando, the restaurant’s Washington opening marks a highly anticipated (and oft-delayed) addition to the city’s dining scene.
The restaurant’s 200-seat dining room will [...]
We Love Food: Poste Roast
I love throwing dinner parties. In my head, they always turn out like the cover of Bon Appetit and there’s always enough delicious food and the wine is perfect and everyone is happy. But in actuality, the food is pretty okay, it never is all ready at the same time, and I usually forget to [...]
More »Neighbors Ask Fans To Keep the Beeps Down After Caps Home Wins
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courtesy of ‘Ghost_Bear’
“FANS: As you leave the arena, please be considerate of our neighbors and use your horn only as a necessity. Thank You.”
The Capitals are having an immensely successful season, and as Ben noted earlier this morning, the squad just locked up their third straight division championship. Much of the success has been at home; until [...]
Stop the Billboard!
‘Friendship Arch’
courtesy of ‘Rolenz’
The DC facade has undergone a few too many facelifts in the past decade or so, turning some neighborhoods – ahem, Gallery Place, Chinatown – into something reminiscent of a once (it’s getting a bit better thanks to NYC finally getting their act together) over-commercialized Times Square.
However, a few key residents of [...]
Damn, Crowded Metro Station! You Scary!
‘not goin’ anywhere?’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
Was anyone else at the Chinatown Metro station yesterday evening at around 6:15? I was, and I was pressed into the mass of humanity unsuccessfully attempting to move around the station. It all started because a red line train, which I was on, had to offload at Judiciary Square, thereby causing a [...]
Party Like It’s 09.09.09, Oh Wait It is 09.09.09!
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courtesy of ‘The_WB’
Celebrate Niner-Niner-Niner Day with copious amounts of Magic Hat #9 at RocketBar at 714 7th St NW in Chinatown starting at 7pm today. Free Magic Hat t-shirts go to the first 99 people, there will be 3-for-$9 specials on all #9s and awesome giveaways like free rounds of beer to parties of 9, [...]
Where We Live: Penn Quarter
‘Penn Quarter’
courtesy of ‘M.V. Jantzen’
Another two weeks, another neighborhood! This week we’ll be looking at the neighborhood at the center of it all: Penn Quarter. This neighborhood encompasses much of the downtown/Chinatown area north of Pennsylvania between 5th Street NW and 9th Street NW. It’s a neighborhood that changed a lot in the past [...]
Frozen Treats: DC’s Best Creameries
‘Saturday Road trip’
courtesy of ‘gregoirevdb’
They tell me the first step is admitting you have a problem. So here it goes: I am shamelessly, hopelessly, horribly in love with ice cream. Now, I say ice cream, but in actuality, ice cream is a pretty generic term for what I really mean – frozen treats. I don’t [...]
A Hard Day: The End of Murky
This morning’s letter on the Murky Coffee website is no April Fools’ Joke. Replacing Murky in the space they’ll leave behind in Clarendon will become a venture of the group that owns Liberty Tavern, with a new space, and a new concept. While details are still sketchy, from what I understand, the upstairs [...]
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Bra on Metro Elevator Originally uploaded by brownpau
Someone must have partied especially hard in the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro elevator on Saturday afternoon, as evidenced by this bra left on the trash-strewn elevator floor. I’d have picked it up (hey, free bra) but it was a bit damp and muddy, and not my cup size anyway.
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