Tag: DC
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Restaurant review: Chinatown Express (Washington, DC)
We were looking for a quick bite to eat before the Adele concert at the Verizon Center. Daikaya (known for its ramen) was a 40 minute wait. But then we happened upon this hole-in-the-wall that advertised fresh hand-cut noodles (called 手拉麵 in Chinese). The noodles can be either put in soup or stir-fried, and you…
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Restaurant review: Kinship (Washington, DC)
Kinship is a newly opened restaurant in Washington, DC. The chef-owner is Eric Ziebold (formerly of French Laundry and CityZen) and his wife, Celia Laurent. We have been huge fans of Eric’s cooking since his CityZen days and have been looking forward to his opening up his own restaurant for months. The menu is organized…
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Casa Luca (Washington, DC)
Casa Luca is a relatively new restaurant by Fabio Trabocchi, who also started the more well-known Fiola’s and the newly opened Fiola Mare. Casa Luca is the more informal and relaxed sibling of those two restaurants. We dined at Casa Luca as part of a bet over whether the Obamacare website would be fixed by…
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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…