Sunflower Restaurant
A wholly vegetarian restaurant is quite the exotic experience for me. I’m left at a loss of expectations before I even enter the front door. Do I need to bring my passport? Are they going to give me one of those uber-intrusive body scans, and check me for contraband weapons or meats? Do they speak [...]
Social
Columbia Heights is quite the clash of cultures these days. The streets are filled with hoodrats, latino workers, hipsters, and well, the other people who live there. It’s one of the few areas in Northwest DC where you can pick up kitschy photo frames from Target on one block, and get shot or stabbed on [...]
Co Co Sala
Co Co Sala is a hotspot among the sweet-toothed night owls, and I’m not talking about the sparkly cast of the Twilight series. The restaurant focuses on small dishes that really explore all corners of your sense of taste. The restaurant offers a 3 course and 5 course tasting dessert menu, but you should expect [...]
Founding Farmers
Founding Farmers is another restaurant owned by the same group that operate Agraria Farmers and Fishers in Georgetown. The restaurant uses the same reclaimed olde timey milk bottles for their water and same emphasis on fresh, wholesome ingredients, and the same contemporary-yet-rural design throughout the restaurant, which really like. Just a couple blocks away from [...]
Urbana
The Kimpton boutique hotels can be found scattered all over DC and the surrounding suburbs. It’s likely that you might have seen one of their hotels and not known it belongs to the Kimpton empire. Hotel Helix. Hotel Rouge. The Topaz Hotel. Hotel Monaco. Hotel Palomar. I’ve long been impressed with their locations and accommodations [...]
Aditi Indian Cuisine
Jen and I had to really keep an eye out in trying to find Aditi at night. The evening air was electric with life in Georgetown. We almost passed by the restaurant twice in our search for the place, with a tiny awning just above the front door barely proclaiming its existence, squelched to barely [...]
Watermelon Salad with Mint Leaves
I had the perfect opportunity to try this recipe out while Jen and I were out vacationing in Hawaii. Reading over the ingredients list, you’d question whether or not this really will taste good, as I did while I was prepping the salad. The result? Delicious. I neglected to pick up red wine vinegar as [...]
Colibri Mexican Bistro
Jen and I stopped by downtown San Francisco for lunch on a layover, and we made a beeline straight for one of her favorite Mexican places in the city – Colibri Mexican Bistro. The restaurant gives off a sleep post siesta atmosphere during the day, and the perfect setting for a rambunctious and lively watering hole at [...]
Taj Mahal Restaurant
Dupont Circle once was the darling neighborhood of DC. Businesses crammed themselves into every available space, and the various streets leading into the circle- Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, P, and 19th, are filled to the gills with an array of restaurants adorned with neon signs and shielded by faded awnings. Jen and I stopped into [...]
Penang
Penang, unbeknownst to me, is actually a chain of Malaysian cuisine restaurants that run along the Atlantic. The DC location recently reopened its doors to the public, after a vicious fire gutted the space for well over a year. I had been to Penang on a couple of occasions prior to the inferno, and reasonably [...]
