If you like really off-beat, try the Insect Club. Yes they have insect dishes on the menu - mostly mealworms, crickets, etc. And yes, they have quite a few non-insect dishes as well. Bon Appetite.
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Someone wrote: : I will be visiting Washington DC with friends and need some : recommendations for good / unusual restaurants in DC NW area. : Any Thai,etc. ? For something different, you might want to try the Red Sage Restaurant on 14th and F Streets (Southwestern Cuisine -- the crab enchiladas were great). Other suggestions might include Filomena's for good Italian food, located on Wisconsin in Georgetown, or Busara (Thai) on Wisconsin Ave. If you want to venture further from the city, there are others, but the above are good for starters. Have fun.
In article , [email removed] (Dan
Persiani) wrote:
> Any Thai,etc. ?
Dan, try:
Cafe Ladda (4400 of Connicticut at Van Ness)
Best Tod Mun I have ever had.........
Cafe Bua:
I forgot the address but around New hampshire and 17th (roughly)
JeffFor Thai, Ladda and Bua are both very good, as someone mentioned (BTW, Bua is at 17th and P). A new one, Mali, is excellent. It is at 18th and S.
Now, as for "unusual" restaurants (gag, I didn't know the Insect Club served insects!), if you haven't had Ethiopian before, DC has an ocean of them. Most are on or near 18th Street in Adams Morgan (on the couple of blocks south of Columbia Road). Meskerem and Red Sea are good, and Meskerem is great for atmosphere. Zed's in Georgetown (33rd and M) is good too. (Note: spicy, and you pick your food up with strips of a soft, flat bread called "injera" instead of silverware.) There are also some west African restaurants on 18th. Sanghomar is Senegalese. I forget what country Bukom represents. You can make an evening of dinner at Marrakesh, at 6th and New York. The inside is very posh, with soft couches and low tables on which you are served a seven course meal (only about $30). You are served as though you were a guest in the home of an affluent Morroccan. Most of the food is eaten by hand. Tasty. There's generally a belly dancing performance at some point. Coco Loco has Brazilian barbecue. All kinds of grilled meats are brought around stacked on enormous skewers. You point to what you want, and it's pushed onto your plate. It's all you can eat for some reasonable price, I forget what. There's also an unlimited salad/beans/fruit bar. For a refreshing drink that packs a punch, have a caipirinha, which is made of a sugar distillation the name of which escapes me. This place is at 7th and I. Enjoy.
Harlan M. wrote: > >You can make an evening of dinner at Marrakesh, at 6th and New York. The >inside is very posh, with soft couches and low tables on which you are >served a seven course meal (only about $30). You are served as though you >were a guest in the home of an affluent Morroccan. Most of the food is >eaten by hand. Tasty. There's generally a belly dancing performance at >some point. We ate at Marrakesh a few weeks ago for a friend's birthday. It was a lot of fun -- the decor is very interesting to examine, the 7-course dinner is served in a relaxing manner, and the belly dancing was interesting (although they plunge the place into almost complete darkness during the dancing, which makes it a bit difficult to eat). The first 3 courses were my favorites, although they were so good that I didn't want to get *too* full in anticipation of the rest of the meal. Unfortunately, the rest of the meal wasn't as good, so if I went there again, I'd pig out early on. The dinner was $22/per person, but did not include drinks (except for some wonderful mint tea with dessert). Definitely a fun place to go -- especially with a group! If you're going for a special event like a birthday that you'd like acknowledged in some way, set it up ahead of time when you make your reservations -- we didn't do that, and when they turned off the lights at the beginning of the dancing part and presented all the birthday people with a special drink lit up with sparklers, our birthday boy felt a little left out (whoops!). They have valet parking, and reservations are probably a good idea, if not necessary. Chris
Someone wrote: : I will be visiting Washington DC with friends and need some : recommendations for good / unusual restaurants in DC NW area. in Adams Morgan there is a place called CITIES: they change their rest. about every three months to a different city. i have been there when it has been LA, NYC, and just two weeks ago i went and it was Hong Kong...very fun, moderately priced, not stuffy, fantastic food! chris [email removed]
Someone wrote: : in Adams Morgan there is a place called CITIES: they change their rest. : about every three months to a different city. i have been there when it : has been LA, NYC, and just two weeks ago i went and it was Hong : Kong...very fun, moderately priced, not stuffy, fantastic food! CITIES has been given a new persona, according to Phyllis. I think it's now called Cafe Asia.
Ray L. wrote: >Someone wrote: >: I will be visiting Washington DC with friends and need some >: recommendations for good / unusual restaurants in DC NW area. > >: Any Thai,etc. ? > >For something different, you might want to try the Red Sage Restaurant on >14th and F Streets (Southwestern Cuisine -- the crab enchiladas were >great). Other suggestions might include Filomena's for good Italian >food, located on Wisconsin in Georgetown, or Busara (Thai) on Wisconsin >Ave. If you want to venture further from the city, there are others, but >the above are good for starters. Have fun. there are many places that i would recommend before Red Sage. it opened with lots of hype about two years ago, but it has not really lived up to expectations. the food is good (i enjoyed my meal) but it wasn't consistently incredible. try palladin in the watergate if you want a good french meal. adam
(Adam Cox) says (in a follow-up to Ray Lau ): >there are many places that i would recommend before Red Sage. it opened >with lots of hype about two years ago, but it has not really lived up to >expectations. the food is good (i enjoyed my meal) but it wasn't consistently >incredible. try palladin in the watergate if you want a good french meal. > >adam > I concur about the not "consistently incredible" at Red Sage. I was there last year, and it was fun, but subsequent trips to DC found what I felt were better places, namely Bernard's (about 12th and L, innovative French) and La Colline (right off Capitol Hill, classic French, and I found lunch _reasonably_ a bargain, at least by DC standards). Ironically, I recently ate at Mark Miller's original place, Coyote Cafe in Santa Fe, and it really was "consistently incredible." Maybe the thickness of the air in DC makes the difference ;). Joe Bonwich