• February 12, 2012

small plates

It’s only a matter of time before DC becomes “One City” and the creative kids take their tax dollars and head to Northern Virginia, where they evidently belong. So let us go on a journey of the City That Was: Pedal down a dedicated bike lane or hop in a metered taxi, we’ll be your [...]

A new restaurant has opened in DC, and guess what? It serves Mediterranean food in small quantities! What are the odds? But would you expect anything else from a new restaurant in DC? Well, we hope not — because unless it’s a cupcake/salad/small plates restaurant that serves at least 1,000 different varieties of esoteric/organic wine [...]

So America fell apart yesterday when the man, the legend, Scott Brown, made a nakedly Socialist move to let there be jobs (but just a few, eventually) and forgot all about the pain and blood of the righteous, real-American teabaggers, who did not elect him to help people do things. To honor the man of [...]

Olympics: The Winter Olympics are in full force, but no one seems to appreciate ever since that nice Georgian Luger died, in a sport. If you feel some patriotic desire (be it for America or Georgia) to watch the games, head to Asia Nine where any of the lounge’s bar snacks are only a buck [...]

If you’re hungry (which is likely) and you want to eat out, you basically have four options for restaurants in DC: small plates, southern food, burgers, or pizza. Throw in a random Belgian or French place and that pretty much sums up dining in the District. More of an observation than a complaint really — [...]

For whatever reason, the phenomenon of eating multiple small plate dishes (also know as tapas) as a meal has taken over dining in the District. There are some food trends that we moderately enjoy: Cupcakes, we can deal with those. Wine bars, they work for impressing dates and for the wining and dining of summer [...]

Co Co. Sala is supposed to be the perfect place for a first date or a ladies’ night out. There are chocolate desserts, a bar stocked with girly cocktail drinks and sexytime mood lighting. So why is this place so lame?