It was a great day to be in Washington, D.C. My day kicked off at 7am with the Nation’s Triathlon. Well, technically, it was a duathlon — the strong rains of the past week made for unsafe water conditions and a cancellation of the swim … Read More →
For a dish that contains only a handful of ingredients and is a prime example of the KISS acronym (“Keep it simple, stupid!”), it’s shocking that restaurants could screw up a lobster roll. Yet they do. Mayo overload, cold bun, shoddy quality lobster, lobster diced … Read More →
Did you eat at Ardeo + Bardeo on Saturday night, and did you sit on the rooftop? How was it up there? In my old age I must be morphing into a canasta-playing retiree who moves to Boca, because this latest heat wave hasn’t bothered … Read More →
My friend Sonya is one of the co-hosts of “The District Dish,” a cable/web lifestyle series that interviews its guests in bars and restaurants around DC. On Monday they shot at Tackle Box in Cleveland Park. Seeing as that’s both my ‘hood and a restaurant … Read More →
Cleveland Park Wine and Spirits Knows How to Throw a Wine Tasting
When it comes to understanding wine, I’m less Paul Giamatti’s character in “Sideways” (“There’s just like the faintest soupcon of asparagus…”) and more Thomas Haden Church’s clueless gum-chewing dolt (“Tastes pretty good to me!”). My wine palate is shall we say, unrefined. I don’t pick … Read More →