May's Mutterings

Category: restaurants

  • Sips & Suppers 2014

    We attended one of the Sips & Suppers that were hosted last night.  Sips & Suppers benefits Martha’s Table and D.C. Central Kitchen.  Chefs from across the country (and sometimes from around the world) cook meals in private homes to benefit the charities. Our dinner was prepared by Scott Drewno of The Source and Peter…

  • minibar by Jose Andres

    We visited minibar by Jose Andres with some friends this past Saturday night.  It was the first time we had been to the new space, which is spare and minimalist with high ceilings and lightly painted wood.  (It’s located at 855 E Street, NW, Washington, DC.) The food definitely catered to the “foodie” crowd and…

  • Town (restaurant in Honolulu)

    We discovered Town (located at 3435 Waialae Ave) on a recommendation by some friends the last time we were in Honolulu and returned on this past trip to see if it was as good as we remembered.  It is as good and possibly better.  Here are some photos of Town’s magnificence: Appetizers include a baby…

  • Uncle Clay’s House of Pure Aloha

    Only in Hawaii can you get away with a name like that.  But Uncle Clay’s House of Pure Aloha (located at 820 West Hind Drive #116 in the Aina Haina Shopping Center in Honolulu) not only has some of the best shave ice we’ve ever had, but it contains something even better—Uncle Clay himself. First…

  • July 4 in New York City

    We had one of the best July 4 holiday weekends ever! To begin with, we spent most of it with one of our favorite families to hang out with. And we spent it in one of our favorite cities, New York, and at one of our favorite hotels, the Carlyle (located at 76th & Madison).…

  • Another Authentic Chinese Restaurant (in northern Virginia)

    100 Degree C (3903 Fair Ridge Drive, Unit H, Fairfax, VA 22033; 703-537-0788).  Its website is www.100degreehot.com, and it is an appropriate website title.  The restaurant specializes in spicy Hunan cuisine, and it’s a great addition to the several Chinese restaurants in Fairfax that serve authentic spicy cuisine that gives no quarter. Most Chinese restaurants…

  • Honolulu Restaurants

    Thanks to some friends of ours, we were introduced to a fabulous restaurant called Town in Honolulu. No photos of their delicious cooking, I’m sorry to say, but trust me, the food is wonderful. Their website is www.townkaimuki.com. Their motto is “Local first, organic whenever possible, with aloha always.” All we can add is that…

  • May’s Rules for Ragamuffins in Restaurants

    Tom Sietsema, the food critic for the Washington Post, has a weekly online chat about various restaurant and food-related issues.  Every so often, there are chatters who complain about parents who bring children into restaurants.  So I have decided to write May’s Rules for Ragamuffins in Restaurants in response.  (This is mostly a venting session…

  • The Late Summer/Early Fall Gastronaut’s Menu at the Inn at Little Washington

    We went with some friends who are being transferred to Singapore to the Inn at Little Washington a couple of weeks ago.  We opted to select the Gastronaut’s Menu, the tasting menu being offered. This time of year is a tough time for restaurants using local ingredients, as summer is drawing to an end but…

  • Authentic Chinese Restaurants in Washington, DC

    We travel fairly often to China and have enjoyed the food there very much, so we decided to start hunting for Chinese restaurants in the Washington, DC area that we thought produced authentic dishes that taste like the restaurants in Beijing.  (With the added advantage that the restaurants in DC are cleaner, and it’s safe…