PleaseBlitz Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 Had dinner at Komi tonight. 100% lived up to its reputation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 Quote The Twitter account of chef, humanitarian, and quarantine cooking sensation José Andrés was temporarily suspended on Tuesday—much to the dismay of his 900,000-plus followers. The lock has since been lifted, but Andres’ hugely popular #chefsforthepeople home cooking videos, which he started during the Covid pandemic with young daughters Carlota and Lucia, have been removed by Twitter due to a copyright infringement complaint. Andrés, reached by phone in Spain where his World Central Kitchen organization is making thousands of free meals for those affected by the pandemic, says an organization that searches for copyright infringement is responsible for the complaint. “Every one of the singers and musicians are people I know and are friends, it’s not them,” says Andrés. “I’ve been a producer for TV shows. These organizations have creative rights. Even Jack [Dorsey, Twitter CEO] himself found out and contacted me and told me this—’there’s not much we can do, it’s customer service.'” https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/06/17/jose-andres-quarantine-cooking-videos-have-been-removed-from-twitter/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 PSA: This week is Restaurant Week. Most places are doing take-out. https://ramw.org/restaurantweek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebluefood Posted February 13, 2021 Author Share Posted February 13, 2021 Got a new print in the mail! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 On 2/13/2018 at 12:05 PM, thebluefood said: Now for the important question for you foodies: where are the best places to eat in Washington on a budget (and for reference: my base salary is about $25,000 before taxes and company health insurance, though I get a bi-monthly commission and have a little more to throw around) I just eat at Cranes in DC. It is a Spanish Kaiseki restaurant. A Spanish woman I know who knows the chef (Pepe, who came out to talk with us) took me there today. We had the 6 course Omakase menu and it was fantastic. They opened just before the pandemic and are still trying to get their footing. It is near Capital One Arena. I would definitely recommend, but it is pricey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 Went to Cranes again today for my birthday. Fantastic. Highly recommend if you can afford it. They have a one star Michelin rating. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 Joselito last night. The tuns crudo is one of the best dishes in the city, and the sangria is terrific. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PleaseBlitz Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 The angry guy from reality TV show Bar Rescue opened a bar right next to Capital One Arena. Not getting great reviews. https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/09/01/soft-foods-hard-liquor-a-dining-dispatch-from-jon-taffers-just-opened-dc-tavern/ Quote Inside the entrance to Taffer’s Tavern—above a mantle that frames a fake electronic fireplace—hangs a portrait of Jon Taffer, the host of Bar Rescue. He’s toasting the viewer with his glass. But the likeness is sort of off, as though someone fed his picture into one of those computer programs that makes photographs look like paintings, printed it out, then hung it in a heavy gilt frame. This unnerving portrait set the mood for my evening at the new DC location of Taffer’s Tavern, which opened next to Capital One Arena on Thursday. I’m there for a Wednesday night media preview, a free meal that the tavern’s Hollywood-style publicity machine has been hyping for weeks. In the (many) press releases my colleagues received, the tavern is described as an “innovative restaurant concept” “designed with traditional Old–World taverns in mind,” featuring “outstanding signature drinks, mouth-watering savory food, excellent customer service, and the highest safety standards in the industry.” Jon Taffer personally promises to “excite the market” in the “vibrant culinary destination” that is DC. Well, here I am: a consumer of DC food and drink. A member of “the market” who is ready to be excited. The host leads me into the sunken dining room, past serpentine booths upholstered with oriental rugs. The vibe is less “Old-World tavern” than “HGTV man-cave meets mid-tier hotel lobby”: exposed brick, little brass lamps, and flat-screen TVs. I’m told that the cuisine at Taffer’s is almost all sous-vide—a fancy French technique that’s essentially putting food in a plastic bag and cooking it in a bath of hot water. You know, Applebees style. Soft foods abound. When my dinner companion arrives, we peruse the drink menu, a bewildering thicket of sugar (a “cotton candy garnish,” “toasted marshmallow vodka,” “Browned Butter Rye Whiskey”) that all looks so awful that I literally cannot decide. So I choose the “Taffer’s Tasters,” a flight of four popular drinks, one of which turns out to be blue. The last time I threw up from drinking was in college, after a Halloween party called “Liquor Treating” in which the student residents of a rundown apartment building invited friends to go door-to-door, sampling a different saccharine liquid in each unit. I bring this up because Taffer’s Tasters is basically Liquor Treating without the party, and I eye it warily all night. Sorry to be petty, but I want to point out that Taffer’s is not what the press release promised. Here’s an example: the drinks allegedly “employ some of the most advanced mixology techniques while staying on-trend and introducing photo-worthy ****tails that taste even better than they look.” Not true. My blue drink tastes like Gatorade topped with a ginger egg white foam. Another drink has a dehydrated orange slice clipped with a tiny wood clothespin to its rim. My friend notes that our colleague actually wrote a story about the emerging mini-clothespins-on-****tails trend. “Was that recent?” I ask. She hedges. “Umm, maybe two years ago?” The story is from 2017. More at link, and it goes south from here. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ball Security Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 4 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said: The angry guy from reality TV show Bar Rescue opened a bar right next to Capital One Arena. Not getting great reviews. https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/09/01/soft-foods-hard-liquor-a-dining-dispatch-from-jon-taffers-just-opened-dc-tavern/ More at link, and it goes south from here. Shut it down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 An elephant-sized demon cat is said to appear at the US Capitol before national emergencies, according to reports as far back as 1862 For more than 150 years a demon cat — some say the size of an elephant — is said to appear near the grounds of the US Capitol before national emergencies, according to the White House Historical Association. "It's probably the most common of all the ghost stories in the Capitol," Steve Livengood, the chief tour guide of the US Capitol Historical Society told Atlas Obscura about the apparition. "Partly because of the physical evidence." In 1898, after the Capitol Building was damaged by a gas explosion, paw prints and the initials "DC" — speculated to mean "demon cat" — appeared in the concrete poured to repair the Small Senate Rotunda. While Livengood told Atlas Obscura it was "quite possible" a cat simply walked across the wet concrete, visitors to the Capitol have seen the prints, and news reports of sightings, as evidence of the legend's veracity. The ghostly cat, described at times as all black and sometimes with tabby stripes, is said to appear most often to guards of the US Capitol, with sightings reported before the assassination of JFK and just before the stock market crash in 1929, according to the White House Historical Association. An 1898 Washington Post report about the cat said the creature "swells up to the size of an elephant before the eyes of the terrified observer," while in 1935 the Post reported after another sighting that the cat's eyes "glow with the all the hue and ferocity of the headlights of a fire engine." Its last notable sighting was in 1963, just before the assassination of JFK — there were no reports of it being seen prior to more recent national crises like the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Click on the link for the full story This story is just a BS legend to begin with, but if it didn't show up before Jan. 6th that just confirms it is nonsense. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 Wait, the 150 year old elephant-sized demon cat story is BS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 21 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said: Wait, the 150 year old elephant-sized demon cat story is BS? No, I'm just trying to keep it under wraps so people don't get scared. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/01/06/17-new-restaurants-to-try-for-dc-winter-restaurant-week/ 17 New Restaurants to Try for DC Winter Restaurant Week Calling some of these "new" is silly, but it's a good list of places to try for Winter Restaurant Week. https://ramw.org/restaurantweek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 Rename this thread to "PleaseBlitz's reviews on restaurants in DC" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 @Spaceman SpiffIf I were the OP, I would. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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