Restaurant scene thread

[DCFan]

Aunt Catfish's in Port Orange, FL (just below Daytona) awesome seafood and at a great value.
Ciao Osteria in Centreville. I don't get the rave reviews.  I can't wrap my head around a high priced restaurant in a Centreville strip mall location (it's right next to DQ and a couple of doors from Giant).
Willards BBQ in Chantilly. Awesome bbq even tho it's in a strip mall.   
The wife and I love Maggianos in Tysons. 

[houston-nat]

Oh hey Blue and JCA, you were right about Rose's. We wound up a few doors down at Ted's Bulletin slurping up alcoholic milk shakes. Loved the atmosphere. And dinner conversation was seriously curtailed when "Some Like It Hot" came on the big projector screen.

Steak was OK but it came with some of the best hash browns I have ever tasted. Buttery melty perfection.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Some friends did an al fresco dinner pairing thingie there recently. I think it cost as much as a suite on the Queen Mary, but they said that they both came at the table so guess it was worth it.

Oh hey Blue and JCA, you were right about Rose's. We wound up a few doors down at Ted's Bulletin slurping up alcoholic milk shakes. Loved the atmosphere. And dinner conversation was seriously curtailed when "Some Like It Hot" came on the big projector screen.

Steak was OK but it came with some of the best hash browns I have ever tasted. Buttery melty perfection.

[blue911]

Oh hey Blue and JCA, you were right about Rose's. We wound up a few doors down at Ted's Bulletin slurping up alcoholic milk shakes. Loved the atmosphere. And dinner conversation was seriously curtailed when "Some Like It Hot" came on the big projector screen.

Steak was OK but it came with some of the best hash browns I have ever tasted. Buttery melty perfection.

Ted's is a Harper breakfast joint.

[tomterp]

Aunt Catfish's in Port Orange, FL (just below Daytona) awesome seafood and at a great value.
Ciao Osteria in Centreville. I don't get the rave reviews.  I can't wrap my head around a high priced restaurant in a Centreville strip mall location (it's right next to DQ and a couple of doors from Giant).
Willards BBQ in Chantilly. Awesome bbq even tho it's in a strip mall.   
The wife and I love Maggianos in Tysons. 

Willard's is good, love the expansive menu.  And those big black and white photos all over the walls of white people eating BBQ, amazing.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Oh hey Blue and JCA, you were right about Rose's. We wound up a few doors down at Ted's Bulletin slurping up alcoholic milk shakes. Loved the atmosphere. And dinner conversation was seriously curtailed when "Some Like It Hot" came on the big projector screen.

Steak was OK but it came with some of the best hash browns I have ever tasted. Buttery melty perfection.

closer to the truth.

that said, a group from the office tried Zaytinya's, one of those Jose Andres small plates places, last week and really enjoyed it.  It is eastern med dishes (Lebanese and Greek mostly).  We had 7 people so we could get a good variety.  The only problem I had was that the veggie dishes did not always list meat ingredients (or we weren't careful enough to notice).  Thus, swiss chard sautéed with pine nuts and pistachios had either salami or some other salty pork chunks in it.  The veggie grape leaves had ???? in it.  you would think with grape leaves they would have veggie stuffed and meat stuffed?  Probably need to ask when ordering.

[Natsinpwc]

closer to the truth.

that said, a group from the office tried Zaytinya's, one of those Jose Andres small plates places, last week and really enjoyed it.  It is eastern med dishes (Lebanese and Greek mostly).  We had 7 people so we could get a good variety.  The only problem I had was that the veggie dishes did not always list meat ingredients (or we weren't careful enough to notice).  Thus, swiss chard sautéed with pine nuts and pistachios had either salami or some other salty pork chunks in it.  The veggie grape leaves had ???? in it.  you would think with grape leaves they would have veggie stuffed and meat stuffed?  Probably need to ask when ordering.

Had my retirement luncheon at Zaytinya.  Great food. I was just along offense ride so no idea about price and the menu choices. Met Ted Leonsis and got my pic with him.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

I'm waiting for Jose Andres to open a small plates concept place with a  focus on Eastern European Jewish food.  Chicken Fat.  Enough of this olive oil bs.  Waiters could chop the horseradish at your table and spoon it over gefilte fish made from rockfish and other local favorites.  Of course, the host will come by your table and say, "you should eat that.  think of the starving children."

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Call it "Pogroms Place"

I'm waiting for Jose Andres to open a small plates concept place with a  focus on Eastern European Jewish food.  Chicken Fat.  Enough of this olive oil bs.  Waiters could chop the horseradish at your table and spoon it over gefilte fish made from rockfish and other local favorites.  Of course, the host will come by your table and say, "you should eat that.  think of the starving children."

[houston-nat]

closer to the truth.

that said, a group from the office tried Zaytinya's, one of those Jose Andres small plates places, last week and really enjoyed it.  It is eastern med dishes (Lebanese and Greek mostly).  We had 7 people so we could get a good variety.  The only problem I had was that the veggie dishes did not always list meat ingredients (or we weren't careful enough to notice).  Thus, swiss chard sautéed with pine nuts and pistachios had either salami or some other salty pork chunks in it.  The veggie grape leaves had ???? in it.  you would think with grape leaves they would have veggie stuffed and meat stuffed?  Probably need to ask when ordering.

That's so strange, I've never heard of grape leaves with meat in them before.

[Mathguy]

Sounds like something my mother would have said

"you should eat that.  think of the starving children."

[JCA-CrystalCity]

That's so strange, I've never heard of grape leaves with meat in them before.

You are probably right.  I know cabbage you stuff with meat.  Mom used to make a stuffed cabbage with hamburger, rice, and raisins (along with a mess of other stuff), some brown sugar, more raisins, and canned tomatoes for the sauce.

[mitlen]

You are probably right.  I know cabbage you stuff with meat.  Mom used to make a stuffed cabbage with hamburger, rice, and raisins (along with a mess of other stuff), some brown sugar, more raisins, and canned tomatoes for the sauce.

Stuffed peppers are pretty tasty too.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Surely you've had dolmades with ground lamb

[houston-nat]

well actually I don't like dolmas/grape leaves

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Yeah, yeah, I know...your lot doesn't like anything those hellenic bozos eat 

[Dave B]

Ziafaat Indian Pakistani restaurant just south of barracks row on eighth street is awesome. Not an Indian food connoisseur but it is much better than other Indian food I've eaten. Confident to say it does not suck. But probably much better than that