How was your Restaurant Week? I did my best to get through five lunches in five days and came close, following last week’s new restaurant recommendations to Sou’wester on Monday, J&G Steakhouse on Wednesday, and Bibiana on Friday. Acadiana was added for good measure on Tuesday as an...

The DCist Flickr pool gets its fair share of Metro shots, so it takes a special effort to come up with something different. Rozanne_ dared to set up a tripod for this 30-second exposure ( EXIF ) of the monolithic Woodley Park station escalators . Worth the risk, we’d say. Washington DCmore here: Photo...

Image courtesy of Phillyberg Dish of the Week: BLTs Where: Cafe Saint Ex, Market to Market Everyone is craving summer after the recent Arctic blasts. For me, a perfect BLT screams summer, with its ripe sun-warmed tomatoes, crisp lettuce, salty thick-cut applewood-smoked bacon, and a smattering of mayonnaise....

Image courtesy of Phillyberg Dish of the Week: BLTs Where: Cafe Saint Ex, Market to Market Everyone is craving summer after the recent Arctic blasts. For me, a perfect BLT screams summer, with its ripe sun-warmed tomatoes, crisp lettuce, salty thick-cut applewood-smoked bacon, and a smattering of mayonnaise....

With its cutesy, annual one-penny price hike, winter Restaurant Week starts today. Three-course meals at selected D.C. restaurants are $20.10 for lunch and $35.10 for dinner. Longtime residents know the drill by now: you either love getting to try to new dining options for a relative bargain, or you...

Beer nerds have been clamoring for a taste of the recent beer collaboration between Sierra Nevada and Dogfish Head breweries. Much like the Brooklyn Brewery/Schneider collaboration , the brewmasters swap or combine yeasts and apply them to their own recipes. The collaboration between Sierra and Dogfish...

Joe Englert’s got company. Following on the news that the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue briefly closed the Argonaut today for back sales and use taxes, OTR released a list of seven other restaurants that met the same fate. Collectively, these restaurants owe more than $860,000 in sales taxes:...

Dish of the Week: Cheesesteaks Where: JJs Cheesesteaks Cheesesteaks are delicious. Beef, cheese, bread… what could go wrong? And for some folks, all those fancy cheesesteaks with provolone, cheddar or American just won’t cut it. Some of us were maybe, just maybe, fed a lot of Velveeta by...

Photo by liliang Dating can be tough. You have to look nice, be funny, talk about things that interest you, but not talk too much. Or you can take a wholly different approach, and just be like this guy. Overheard of the Week On from the D2 bus to Glover Park: Two nerdy early-20s Hill staffer guys are...

              Ever since it was announced more than 18 months ago that Birch & Barley / ChurchKey would be taking the place of Dakota Cowgirl and Ramrod in the Logan Circle neighborhood, anticipation has been building. The PR machines and press cranked, listing...