Washington DC

Georgetown's a bit out of your way, though...

There's a great Mongolian barbeque right on the edge of Chinatown, but that also is out of your way.

I can't actually remember any of the places I've been in DC proper that weren't, like, full of government or history junk.

http://www.timeout.com/washingtondc/ent/jazz.html#96989

I don't know about these "acid jazz" things described in this review. I do know that it's a place where many DC hip-hop acts perform and they've got two fully-stocked bars. One of my favorite spots in the city to hang out, actually. Georgetown and Adams-Morgan are also good areas of town to hang out in, especially G-Town. (I don't know Adams-Morgan that well.)

I'd put you in touch with my brother, but he's NOTORIOUS for not responding to email very quickly...

The last time I was in DC I was 12, so I'm absolutely useless in terms of recommendations.

I really actually don't NEED to know about stuff in the capital district as we should have transportation. Mongolian barbeque sounds like something we have to go to. Do they dress like actual Mongolians? That's my dream restaurant, up there with my idea that Ethiopian restaurants should serve you food and have waiters dressed like warlords steal it from you as you try to eat it.

These are all some pretty good ideas (as if we're even leaving the stupid hotel, there's a liquor store across the street last time I was there)

Also post a picture of the Washington Monument at night, that thing looks like a big spooky KKK memorial or something. Secret societies yippee! I don't know near enough special handshakes for this burg.

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We could try that DC FAP at 18th Street Lounge or Dragonfly that we discussed.

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Oh j.lu, where is the DC Lush???

Cafes
Cafe La Ruche in Georgetown (great hideaway)
Le Bon Cafe, Capitol Hill (a bit overpopulated by Hill people)
Kramerbooks, Dupont (cafe, but not Euro, and way overpriced)

Restaurants
Bistro Francais, Georgetown (relatively inexpensive solid bistro food; good for fish; prototypical date restaurant)
Bistrot du Coin, Dupont (very French, moderately expensive)
Au Pied de Cochon, Georgetown (food is mostly terrible, though I like the onion soup - connoisseurs might disagree - but classic anyway)

Bars
Bistrot du Coin, Dupont
Cafe Milano, Georgetown (not French, but Euro, as an epithet)
Eighteenth Street Lounge (again, Euro, but in a good way if they let you in)

M Street in Georgetown. More or less across M Street from Sephora/blue mercury/MAC.

Stoney's on L St. - cheap drinks, mad cow, dive-y atmosphere
Post Pub? - across the street from the paper
Sky Terrace - the rooftop (summer) bar at the Hotel Washington - or the Round Robin bar at the Willard?
Full Kee - for shrimp dumplings in chinatown; maybe Tony Cheng's Mongolian as mentioned above too (it's ok, nothing great)
Breadline - great lunch (only) near the White House from Marvelous Mark Furstenberg; filled with political people
Old Ebbitt Grill - very Federal City, across the Street from the Treasury Dept
Cap City and Gordon Biersch breweries
Irish Times/the Dubliner
Red Sage - I'm not sure that either upstairs or downstairs is worth it, but upstairs is cheaper
Fado - I never liked this Chinatown pub much, but others might

Moderately expensive restaurants: Zaytinya, Equinox, Kaz Sushi Bistro

Basically a lot of the problems Ally and I have with AM is that we only get to hang out there together on the weekends.

The best of AM seems to me to be... the third floor bar of Madam's Organ (I have been once, there were twenty people in a 200 sq ft room with a small bar, plenty of couches joined with coffee tables with ashtrays, and a fireplace with fire. "Low End Theory" was playing in its entirety, not too loud. Problem: Cover Charge. I have also spent a few nights at the Toledo Lounge, which is usually filled with calm, ageing indie rockers out after a long day at the non-profit to reminisce about Husker Du with their friends who they are not trying to fuck. That is pretty good for 18th st.

as for FAPs, I work both Friday and Saturday nights at the moment. Hopefully I will end this soon (I will probably have to work one, but not both.)

La Ruche and Bistro Francais are already infrequent haunts of mine. Even if BF is a good date place, I think I would rather keep it to myself because I dont want any of my 4am espresso/cake/newspaper/cigarette sessions to be overshadowed by memories.

Back in the day, upstairs at the Common Share was kind of cool, but I think it's long since become as fratty/sketchy as downstairs. Felix can be a little much, but on some nights the upstairs rooms aren't terrible.

Total tourist trap.

Is Kaz Sushi Bistro still open? Every time I pass by it doesn't look open.

The bar at Hotel Lombardy is supposed to be good.

In Adams Morgan you also have Chez Antoine, which does nice crepes and may have the most complete lineup of Belgian beers in town.

(NB: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$)

Mixtec is only ok! The Eat Place is really unreasonably expensive, gabbneb. Tom kind of OTM about the pasta joint too, I mean I pretty much decided it must be good if it has a damn line wrapping half the block but OTOH the chances of it being a better Italian joint than like any number of places I know in NYC is so slim that I refuse to line up to find out.

I think I prefer Georgetown to any of the neighborhoods I've stayed in in DC but I didn't check out Downtown as thoroughly as I liked back in the day (fyi the end result of the trip on this thread was "sitting around in a hotel room" again).

I guess Old Ebbitt hasn't been good for a long time; it was supposed to be more about the scene and maybe that was only in the 80s.

san marco is supposed to better than the other pasta place, but with no waiting. i have been. it was good.

i think there was a conflict of schedules in re rise anyways. the four seasons is a bit more stodgy though. i dont mind. keeps people from McLean away ;-)

Thanks for the photos of Ben's Chili Bowl! I used to live right near there. it was perfect, you could leave the party at 2am to get food and only walk like half a block. Oh, and Chez Antoine is the absolute best thing in Adams Morgan, but for bars there, I like Staccato - on the nights when there's no performance - a nice upstairs space and the staff are super. There's also Chef Ike's Mambo Room on Columbia Road, laid back and friendly.. and Stetson's on 16th street, super unpretentious.. and of course, the wonderful Brickskeller. For restaurants there's a Senegalese place way up in the 6000 block of Georgia Ave, Chez Aunty Liby, which I plan to stop at next time I'm in town..

The Common Share seems to have gotten lame now that they've cleaned up their act, it was better before, though kinda shady.

I really, really, really, really miss DC. It's the best. :(

Library Bar at the St. Regis
Top notch. One room, expensive, drinks are amazing. Closes at midnight, but it's really the best.

The Georgetown Ritz Carlton
The lobby is much better than the bar - it's got higher ceilings, more comfortable seats, a piano and a fireplace. It's one of the new Ritz prototypes - much less stuffy, retained some of the walls of the former incinerator. Good service, good snacks, about half the drinks on the specialty list are great and the other half are as bad as they sound.

Off The Record at the Hay-Adams
Ultimate Washington bar. Right across the street from the White House. Good classic cocktails.

The International at The Washington Plaza
Redecorated bar/lounge. Good bottled beer selection, great decor, and always empty.

The aforementioned Bistro Bis near Union Station

Charlie Palmer Steak on Capitol Hill
Great wines, great food, lots of seating at the bar. Especially good early on Saturday evenings when the lobbyists are at home.

Nectar
Small restaurant in Foggy Bottom with an even smaller and separate bar. Not formal, but probably the highest quality drink selection in town. Their rail bottles are top shelf.

As I type this, I'm realizing that the most important thing about a bar to me is available seating. And I'm ok with that.

For casual bars to stay a while, I like The Saloon, Soussi, Chez Antoine, Marx Cafe, The Reef, Brickskellar, the cavern at Bohemian Caverns (half price belgian beer happy hour Tuesdays), Cap City, District Chophouse, John Harvard's, Fin Mac Cool's, Polly's, and just about anywhere, really.

Do you mean Garrett's? Or possibly the Tombs? (Garrett's wasn't a specifically Irish place last time I was there, but I can't think of any other such places in the Georgetown area. Although there are crap "Irish" places elsewhere in DC.)

i think i will celebrate though by going to galileo for the bar lunch menu.

who still lives here besides tom and julia?

Sorry I didn't get back to you--I was on the bus this afternoon and then without internet--though I almost walked into the MLK library--how is that place? Though just as well, as it turned out you couldn't make it anyway.

I ended up selling the ticket to a nice Georgetown girl. Const. Hall is a real crapshoot--I had my backpack bc I came straight from NYC, and they wouldn't let me in the venue with it, and they had no bag check. So, I had to get in a cab and high tail it to my friend's house and then come back. I got a vodka and cranberry, and they don't allow drinks in the venue! I think they even confiscated flowers.

Last time I was at Const. Hall I saw Corey Hart and was in sixth grade.

But, my seats were in the balcony, but no one cared where I went, so I went and stood right in front of the stage, having to deal with all these wining privileged kids about how they paid for their front row seats and that I should go away on principle, not bc there wasn't enough room. Do they realize this is a concert, not a bake sale?

I shook Morrissey's hand. He kept offering it and then pulling away and I wasn't sure if he was going to come through. I screamed. I think he gave me this look like, what are you so excited about, you mentalist? People could easily clamor on the stage at the end, bc the stage was like waist high, and no barriers.

What bar do you work at Aaron? Is it fun? I wish I had known someplace to go tonight besides Kramerbooks. I'll also be here tomorrow, but I don't know if I will go to VA or stay in DC--I'm staying with a friend in Dupont Circle. Let me know what you are up to. Did the lease come through? My friend who I'm staying with is buying a house in Vienna tomorrow.

anyways, just wanted to congratulate dc on voting 90% in favor of the massachusetts liberal elitist ;-) fuck canada people, come to chocolate city. all you hipsters would love how 93.9FM plays 30 minutes of (black music) classics at noon everyday. why watch some trustafarian play a copy of "nasty girl" off his iPod at some overpriced watering hole when you can hear a real dj rock 2 copies every day on the radio? i love this city sometimes, especially the bar industry, whcih is so incestuous that i am practically an alcoholic for free (last bar tab for 7 drinks = $4.50 before 150% tip).

They're both sort of highbrow - they like fun, but they're probably not going to want some straight-laced bar in Georgetown. I recommended Kramerbooks. Where else should they go out? And who has the best cheap eats other than Burrito Brothers?

Kramerbooks can rate for environment, but not for food/value, and certainly not service

ha. i'm probably never going back there.

I forgot Ben's above

this is true, but a little like saying hitting your cock with a hammer is better than drinking a milkshake made of cancerous ovarian tumors.

Dupont is probably their first port of call, though

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Also if they're looking for cheap eats then you absolutely, completely cannot do better than Amsterdam falafel in Adams Morgan. For real.

i cant handle that pop-up

I thought I wouldn't like Busboys and Poets and then I went there and it was gorgeous, and the people were super nice, and the drinks, very good. worth checking out.

also how about Dukem on U St (ethiopian.) pretty good. not expensive.

is DC worth living in? from broklyn it seems like an interesting change. I mgiht be going to school here (yes, you won't see dear burt stanberg hanging out at BCC anymore).

in this thread one will find contained the multitudes of the universe indeed!

dc is worth living in just for the fact that you can point down the street and say "listen, mr. voter man, I'm not responsible for any of those shitbags getting paid to fuck this country into the toilet. they were elected by you, state resident. don't look at me. i just work here."

also, we're mostly recession-proof.

and as a corollary to my no-voting-is-wonderful theorem, there's the bonus that nobody can ever blame you for being a right venomous sour-faced cunt all the time, because damn dude, you live right up the road from satan's own dysenteric asshole

burt, you'd fit in great.

ohhhh

Oh, I'm a pleasant enough person in the flesh space. Taking a visit, it seems like people are a little more amenable in DC Cab... a little bland, but nicer. NYC has this dark spirit and when you live there long enough it takes you over, maaan.

(for thoe purposes of this arugment, nyc = nyc metro area)

NYC has this dark spirit and when you live there long enough it takes you over, maaan.

HAW @ this. Do you know what the industry is here? There's really only one. You may have learned about it in elementary school.

people trade their insecurities and boring past lives behind; in exchange they become raging a-holes.

what school?

yes, the people are friendlier in that southern/midwestern way. there's more light and the temperature is up a notch. but the most interesting people your age you're gonna have to seek out - they're not all around you. yes it's the most highly educated place in the country, but those are old people. you'll basically live in a gerrymandered small hipster town nestled around the fringes of the marble institutions and their standard-issue social adjuncts. don't follow the money. or maybe you'll prefer the more collegiate/adult (and more douchey) international scene.

anyway, none of this matters all that much because you'll be in law school and will be with the same people day in and day out without too much time for anything else. the interesting ones may be few.

the girls are better-looking, imho. you may well get different mileage.

RONG

he might be right about the law school bit, I wouldn't know.

xxp DC chicks go jogging every morning, but they eat terrible institutional food lunches, so you get this great mixture of fitness and big buttedness. That's my theory at least.

From what I saw the girls were nowhere near as good looking as the ones in New York, though that's because average girls can make themselves look hot with all the shit you have access to in NYC. But, they were a hell of a lot nicer in DC--no ego battles, just pleasant banter.

The school is AU, the third best school in DC. Unless I get off the Georgetown or GW waitlists. I'm not sure I'd want to stay in NY for law school... bad habits and all.

the ones I saw all had beer guts. of course in new york every girl is either anorexic or on the columbian diet, so it's a stark contrast anywhere

the people are friendlier in that southern/midwestern way. no.
there's more light and the temperature is up a notch. true.
yes it's the most highly educated place in the country, but those are old people. no.
you'll basically live in a gerrymandered small hipster town nestled around the fringes of the marble institutions and their standard-issue social adjuncts. no. it is a corrupt ghetto for the cream of the crop of our nation's assholes and their spoiled, worthless offspring, served by a noticeably aggrieved, voiceless underclass and filled out around the middle by civil servants and contractors e.g. me who simply are too apathetic, too well compensated, or too stupid to bother moving to a more socially acceptable part of the world.
don't follow the money. the money is the only reason anybody with half a conscience lives in this disgusting segregated throwback dump. But you and I may be talking about completely different things.
or maybe you'll prefer the more collegiate/adult (and more douchey) international scene. <- lol he is talkin' bout cocaines
the girls are better-looking, imho. you may well get different mileage. they might be better looking naked but hard to tell when they're covered in all that ann taylor loft garbage

Georgetown's status as a top school is entirely based on the value of their real estate, as far as I can tell. I've never met a single hoya who was worth the dinkleberries in my GI tighties.

Unless they were a stealth hoya maybe

http://www.defensivepessimism.com/db3/00212/defensivepessimism.com/_uimages/0465051383.jpg

sup

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I DIED you should check out this movie on your projector bcz I think it would look fucking sweet: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386741/

There's nothing like utter cluelessness to fuel dismissive pessimism!

you went to georgetown?

i keep reading tom's scatalogical rants on this thread in the voice of that manic depressive lawyer's opening narration in michael clayton

i luvd that guy

I AM SHIVA, GOD OF DEATH!

'Dr Pepper for the ears'

tombot is otm about this; "the people are friendlier in that southern/midwestern way." no.

wtf gabbneb southerners have their own passive aggressive ways of being dicks, but dc just does full-on aggro dick by comparison!

yr talking to new yorkers here, dude.

i realize my tastes are not average here. if you're less into the All American thing or Ann Taylor (no Loft pls) and more into cosmetics or fringes or hard drug shik or brunettes, you're likely to be disappointed.

my don't follow the money cryptoid wasn't referring to job prospects - i meant look to the non-profit/NGO spheres for interesting people. npr kids helped keep me sane.

i may be biased because i chose DC over 'better' schools out of personal/professional interest, then decided the town was too small for me after 3 years/more of my friends were at home. it still may be a more natural place for some of my underlying interests, but pear-shaped wall street is making for some very fun new york work at the moment.

i don't think people who make serious distinctions regard gtown undergrad as a 'top school', at least where i come from (not a very jesuitical place), but you can certainly find smart people there. it does tend to draw a type, tho, and the type is somewhat oriented towards tombot's arena. v v nice real estate of which the law school unfortunately does not partake.

the tenor of the town does change at least somewhat with the administration, so things might be looking up in 9 months.

how is the georgetown type oriented towards tombot's arena?

haha yeah you should be very careful with confusing the civil servant/contractor class with the Hill kids. I don't know how the fuck those people get up in the morning tbh

that American school seems like it has a decent crowd at least; half the kids I met there spent the past 5 years in Broklyn and Philly hipstering it up. Basically liberal arts kids meets law school. That was my only exposure to people in DC, except some dreadful bar in Adams Morgan.

Dude Tom, you met my brother! (Granted he didn't do Georgetown undergrad)

tombot's arena = secret agent men. my impression is a lotta gtown kids, SFS especially, go down that road.

yeah I shouldn't project the people I went to school with on every DC school. I only know one guy from AU law that I can recall, and he's a great dude, tho not especially hipster-y. we had a decent amount of quasi-hipsterism, but you're there to go to law school - in large part, it got expressed only subtly outside of extracurriculars, submerged under the primary vibe.

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/OUT.OF.TOWN/georgetown.trolleys/tracks.html

somehow i missed this thread. after being here for nearly 6 years, i'm moving to western massachusetts in a month. i've enjoyed dc but i'm really looking forward to leaving.

tombot's kind of OTM on the people. most people are dicks here, i think, though i've never lived in NY and i grew up in cleveland where people tend to be friendlier, if not as 'wordly' as the educated uptight DC folk. but really, DC is sometimes kind of lacking in down-to-earth, friendly people. due to the nature of the city, people tend to be obnoxiously career-oriented, very high-strung, etc.

though it's not all that bad. it's a very attractive town - all the row houses, lots of trees, lots of light due to the shorter buildings, lots of tiny parks/squares and benches here and there, great restaurants (no joke about the ethiopian food). for all the thai restaurants here, i have never been to one that has really been all that mindblowing.

i think there's a lack of good, quiet pubs, something i like a lot and found abundant in, say, cleveland, or st. louis. i haven't been impressed with a lot of the bars. i kind of hate 18th street apart from the good restaurants/record stores. admittedly i don't go out to bars/cubs that much and usually go out to eat instead.

i went to AU for undergrad. very interesting place, though it seemed there was a huge divide between the grad students/law school folk and the undergrad folk. like the rest of dc, very career-oriented people, sometimes obnoxiously so.

i kind of hate busboys and poets, btw. saw it mentioned upthread. kind of epitomizes everything obnoxious about the liberal activist/social justice types here. i admire the work they do etc., etc., but after going to AU and being here for a while, i'm kind of burned out on that scene. there's this heroic self-indulgence to a lot it that i find kind of repulsive.

has anyone been to the back room at busboys, the one with the stage? the wall behind the stage has three huge murals of GANDHI, the DALAI LAMA, and MARTIN LUTHER KING. so you hear a comedian telling these dirty jokes with gandhi, the dalai lama, and MLK staring sternly at the crowd behind him. that's kind of what i'm talking about. there's this huge pretense of it being this "community space dedicated to social justice" bla bla that i find really self-indulgent and kind of obnoxious.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court says Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices' first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.

The court's 5-4 ruling strikes down the District of Columbia's 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. The decision goes further than even the Bush administration wanted, but probably leaves most firearms laws intact.

The court had not conclusively interpreted the Second Amendment since its ratification in 1791. The amendment reads: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

The basic issue for the justices was whether the amendment protects an individual's right to own guns no matter what, or whether that right is somehow tied to service in a state militia.

Awesome. Now I can finally use that bazooka I've been hiding. Or is that not classified as a gun. I guess I can consult the ruling.

The court's 5-4 ruling strikes down the District of Columbia's 32-year-old ban on handguns

http://www.demopolislive.com/gallery/images/1/large/1_the_right_to_bear_arms.jpg

LOL I can hold a bazooka in my hand.

Anyway all I can say is: thank goodness handguns are now easier to buy in Washington DC!

I mean, I was really having a problem there for awhile.

Constantly wanting a gun; not having it. Knowing I could be popped at any moment by a criminal, who doesn't have to obey the law!

But now - now I can have a handgun. To protect myself and my family. God bless the Supreme Court of Unitinu.

http://www.freemaninstitute.com/images/bullets74-87.gif

if a criminal brekas into your house with a handgun, how're you gunna defend urself?? huhH?? why should the criminals be theo nly ones with guns?

Exactly. Once he catches the gleam of my polished .45 where it juts purposefully up from the waistband of my six-year-old Fruit of the Looms, he'll know "what time it is".

xxp DC chicks go jogging every morning, but they eat terrible institutional food lunches, so you get this great mixture of fitness and big buttedness. That's my theory at least.

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tell me more

he's lying, will. dc is pretty much universally accepted as america's most hideous major city.

xxp DC chicks go jogging every morning, but they eat terrible institutional food lunches, so you get this great mixture of fitness and big buttedness. That's my theory at least

Entirely true. Great ankles, and they got back. Awesome.

this is going to suck

a point i hadn't considered before:

who lives in d.c. and doesn't get to have guns legally?
who lives right outside the city limits and DOES get to have guns legally?

or who lives in DC and is so stoked at the opportunity to own a firearm that doesn't already have one

xxp DC chicks go jogging every morning, but they eat terrible institutional food lunches, so you get this great mixture of fitness and big buttedness. That's my theory at least

ok, so i'll put dc on the list of places to move in the fall.

why should the criminals be theo

http://www.thehinter.com/hint/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/gordongartrellhb5.jpg

that is totally otm btw

he's lying, will. dc is pretty much universally accepted as america's most hideous major city.

i won't fight you on this. somebody'd have to come off major dough to get me up there - i'm talking 6 fig & some pretty perky benefits. OTOH there are just boatloads of cute girls up there. hot as NYC girls? Probably not. but they likely have lower standards and purportedly big(ger?) asses.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/DC_likely_to_gain_voting_member_1201.html

sorry, i'm not sure what the most recent DC thread is. i'm going to be in town this weekend (fri-mon). i probably won't have any time to hang out since it's for my sister's wedding and there are various other family things planned, but if anyone (tombot? mr. que? anyone else?) wants me to give them a call on the off chance of a free evening, they can send their phone no. to naamme at gmail.

what kind of food is DC known for?

there's mad ethiopian

I think the only thing I have heard called a DC original is the Half-Smoke.

lotsa great salvadoran and ethiopian in the city, vietnamese in northern virginia

plus "things with mambo sauce on them," which might as well be its own food group

what is a half smoke

a type of sausage

Also, seconding the mombo sauce.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/561/the-missing-link

The history of the half-smoke sausage/hot-dog

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2011/07/21/did-mumbo-sauce-exist-before-d-c-s-asian-run-carryouts/

chicken wing dipping mambo/mumbo sauce history

dang, ty

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/mumbo-sauce-the-flavor-of-washington-that-isnt-the-president-and-the-politics/2011/07/14/gIQAFOqQII_story.html

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/344683

more on mambo sauce - i love how bill cosby turns out to be the zelig of dc fast food

I DIED to thread

otm

what am I on the thread for, I see that mumbo sauce has been adequately covered

recs for cheap places to stay near a metro step, that may also have cheap places for parking available nearby?

petworth? columbia heights? bloomingdale? honestly it's pretty easy to park a car in any of dc's cheap residential neighborhoods (assuming you get dc plates or have a backyard)

you could also look near h st ne, but metro access is definitely spotty

why would anyone want to park in DC proper unless you work here, is my question

I used to hate on the bus system but now that I live on one of the main lines - 52/53/54 + Circulator, whaat - I am kinda becoming an advocate of the surface options to accompany metro. Search for cheap first and then use google or wmata to figure out what you can get to stop and station-wise. Seriously though, if you must park, park outside of town. It's just a huge pain in the ass without a zone sticker.

look for something in Virginia on the Orange line, maybe.

For cheap? I dunno. Would suggest green, blue or yellow. Orange line spots are kinda premium, with all the tech corridor industry shit + proximity to dulles, reston, tyson's etc.

in town for a few days. staying on Capitol Hill. anybody got recs for somewhere cheap/good/not-sceney to eat tomorrow night? local or yellow line preferred. can't drink (more than a cocktail) b/c of meds, so pubs are out. otherwise....?

Baan Thai on 14th St NW

Cher Cher Ethiopian 1334 Ninth St. NW

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-10-best-ethiopian-restaurants-in-the-washington-area/2016/10/12/0c38147c-8027-11e6-a52d-9a865a0ed0d4_story.html?utm_term=.e1967ea0f332

https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/07/17/best-cheap-restaurants-around-washington-dc/

http://tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com/

Find some good places to eat?

Cher cher was v. good, tyvm for suggestion. Also I scored tix to the NAAHM for a second day and beelined down to the café for catfish po boys.

Because it was hip and I hadn’t yet been, I went to Milkbar and I got a cereal milk soft-serve. It was fine, but I can’t imagine doing it another time.

Oh I'm just seeing this. Are you still here? Do you like our bizarre winter weather?

It’s weird! Today at least feels like February.

The Heritage Foundation’s Zack Smith, arguing against DC statehood, says DC residents “already impact the national debate” because members of Congress see their yard signs while driving to work. pic.twitter.com/g7fV3TopCX

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) March 22, 2021

Is there a “possible DC disruption today” email or text resource out there for commuters? Because something like that would be very valuable

And I don’t mean for stuff that can’t be predicted- more like “hey, the SOTU is happening tonight and may cause the cancellation of bus traffic in the afternoon”

won’t metro text alerts say?