August 3, 2007
The Weekly Feed: Summer Crazies Edition
The madness certainly seems to have infected Todd Kliman of Washingtonian. If you didn't catch his chog this week, you missed out on more than 20 paragraphs (20!) of his take on recent food-focused movies - No Reservations and Ratatouille. (The average food review seems to be about five to seven paragraphs.) His critique of No Reservations focuses more on casting choices and comparing it to the German original, Mostly Martha, with only a brief mention of the food. Then, he brings it back home with a look at the critic, Anton Ego, in Ratatouille. Please, Todd, stick to the food. We want verbal food porn. I dig wiping the drool off my keyboard.
P.S. Could you please write “spoiler alert” next time? Not everyone has seen the movie. Thanks.
A new source for rocket fuel
Better start practicing the art of building your own salad. Chop't Creative Salad Company will be opening its first DC-area location in Penn Quarter on 7th Street in September. Over 60 salad ingredients and 26 types of salad dressing will be available. Particularly interesting is the fat-free Rocket Fuel salad dressing, which is “popular with New York fashion models,” but sounds more like a laxative than it probably should. Nonetheless, the place sounds like a great new lunch option.
Baseball and bourbon
Frank Howard, former Washington Senators player, will be at Pearson's in Glover Park signing baseballs as well as bottles of Maker's Mark with wax seals in the colors of the Washington Nationals. For anyone who really hates the holiday shopping rush, this seems like a great present for any Nationals fan or a novelty for Maker's fans. Or stave off the summer crazy and use it to make yourself a mint julep.
Extended Restaurant Week
For those of you who want to get an early start on Restaurant Week, Dino, Oya, and Ceviche have made August into Restaurant Month. There are also a number of other restaurants that have extended past the one week period. Jason Storch of DC Foodies has yet again posted the best guide to Restaurant Week, including menus and dates.
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Particularly interesting is the fat-free Rocket Fuel salad dressing, which is “popular with New York fashion models,” but sounds more like a laxative than it probably should.
Wow, talk about damning with faint praise. You know what else is popular with fashion models? Anorexia, colonics, and narcotics addiction; not things I'd associate with a nutritious dining experience. At least one NYC reviewer says it's trendy and overrated, meaning it will do gangbusters in DC.
thanks, monkeyrotica, for pointing us to one single reviewer. We are sure we won't want to read any more reviews of this new retail in Penn Quarter because this one single reviewer knows it all. We knew we could count one you to underrate our prospective salad shop.
Thanks again.
Re: "spoiler alert."
Uh, maybe you need to read more closely.
"There’s a moment very early on in that film where I settled into my seat knowing I was in for something good. It comes when Martha receives the phone call informing her -- spoiler alert! -- that her sister has been killed. Gedick says nothing; no cry, no expression of horror. But something in her face goes slack. And almost involuntarily, her pinky begins to quiver. Zeta-Jones’s reaction is utterly conventional -- the stunned stare into space."
Re: spoiler alert
Actually I was referring to further down in the last big paragraph of his commentary. In fact, he discloses a substantially bigger portion of the plot line than he did above. In fact, I would say that perhaps the portion he did "spoiler alert" was a conclusion someone might have drawn from watching the previews.
And the reviews of Chop't keep rolling in.
How lucky Penn Quarter is to have yet another fine dining establishment! It certainly fits in with the hip, vibrant lifestyle of those with more money than brains, as well as the growing demographic of professionals who are incapable of assembling a salad lest they accidentally drive their Sabatier into their forehead.
But you folks downtown are really going to "get your salad tossed" when Salad Creations hits town. Followed by the requisite turf wars where innocent bystanders are slain by drive-by Salad Shootings. So when the streets run white with roquefort and steamed chicken breast, don't say monkeyrotica didn't warn you.