The Smiley

Aah, can we do an alike list for NYC? I’ll start: Una Pizza pie Napoletana has acquired to be the most overestimated eatery on the east coast.

I’ve held nothing but full experiences at du Coin…at times it occupies a spell for the servers to get to you, but I locomoted in anticipating a raft more ‘tude than was presented. I guess it’s an affair of outlooks.

This town NEEDS a list like this. Attending tourers: debar total restaurants like the pest in this town. Demur for matchbox. That shit is delicious.

I’d tell the opposite is trued up of Central. Nutrient rules. Religious service meh.

Redwood and all the early “Georgetown Waterfront” restaurants are so total of sucking they are the Charybdis of the Potomac River.

Unhappily, in DC, it occupies a fresh President and all their disposal earlier the food changes. To a moving ridge of better restaurants in 2009 *clink*, you cognize: CHANGE.

Jaleo? You had got to admit Jaleo? The tapas are still grotesque (talk ’bout you Pulpo a la Gallega), as is the sangaree.

I concur about the wait, still, and that the want of modifications to the carte and ambience has got the eating house a spot stale. Lately I’ve halted locomoting there for dinner and treat it as a luncheon place. It makes better in that capability.

1, 2, and 5 emphatically: I’ve never been to Lauriol without acquiring ill later on, Redwood is wished Smith Point but with less awareness, and every clip I go to Jaleo I feel like I’m experiencing the like big day of the month from 1999 all over and all over once again. I (bosom) Bistrot du Coin, though. The steak maison is fan-fing-tastic.

Lauriol is not simply the bad in DC, it may be the bad on the east coast. Yech, that place is big big big.

As far as wherefore, I candidly have no thought. Even Gore and Lieberman demoed up there during the 2000 election recount. Peradventure there’s something in the food that is addicitve? Or it’s only a natural place for alsos?

I want to cognize where there Catholic Pope moves to feed? The YMCA?

i gotta agree with a figure of early inputs: bistro du coin is the shizz. tasty food and my service has ever been full. there may be a wait to get a tabular array mired, withal

In D.C., we definately need to supply: Zaytinya (or whatsoever); Ben’s Chili con carne Bowl (no screaming–we love Ben’s, but, common people, it’s raging Canis familiaris and chili con carne!); Perry’s (no one we cognize realises the entreaty of this place); Oya (or any)–why do citizenry go ther?; Emile Zola (you will want to barf in one case you walk through the doorway); Cyrus McCormick and Schmick’s (this is the topographic point for you if you like USD 4 moth Brassica oleracea italica face and USD 22 little clumbs of undercooked kernel); Sound Seafoods (should be illegal); any place that trades “tapas” (is “tapas” Spanish for “rip you off?”); and the Hostel at Small Capital of the (improbably over-priced and overestimated; it is NOT worth the slip). Merely go to a little, neck of the woods mom-and-pop Asian or Mexican eating place where no main course cost more than USD 15, and, citizenry, you will be felicitous! There’s about 200 to select from in the metropolitan country!

I have to acknowledge I genuinely truly like Lauriol Plaza’s margaritas. I cognise the spot is herded as inferno and the food’s not as full as its called to be, but about felicitous hour-time, free french & salsa and various hurlers of margaritas are Eden - as retentive as you’re done for earlier the dinner crowds start congregation.

I would have believed the “pelvic girdle” factor at Lauriol had on off tenacious ago, but on the face of it there’s an ending supplying of green 20-somethings in DC

i’d use up extinct lauriol (their steak fajitas are pretty satisfying) and supervene upon with either PS7’s (vapid and overpriced, even during eatery hebdomad) sushi ko, or sette in dupont

You buried the MOST overestimated and worthless of ALL DC restaurants. Coffee shop Milan. If I could count the figure of allies of mine (letting in myself) who have acquired ill from feeding that dump’s crap . . . this place needs to be SHUTTERED immed.

thefrontpage: I had got lunch at Zaytinya’s yesterday and idea it was grotesque. somewhat pricely, but antic. What’s your job with it?