July 8, 2008
Granville Moore's Teddy Folkman Takes on Bobby Flay
Chef Teddy Folkman of Granville Moore's cooks up moules and frites |
In case you haven't had the opportunity to make the trek out to Granville Moore's on H Street NE, try tuning into the Food Network tonight at 9 p.m. to see what you've been missing out on. Even if you've had to opportunity to try their signature Moules Fromage Bleu - a steaming pot of PEI mussels, bacon, shallots, spinach, and blue cheese with frites - watch as Food Network poster-boy Bobby Flay attempts to "throwdown" and pit his coconut milk, roasted green chilies and butter mussels, and roasted poblano fries against Chef Teddy Folkman's classic dish. Good luck, considering Folkman's double-fried frites rank among D.C.'s best, alongside Brasserie Beck and Belga Cafe.
"Being selected by the Food Network to work with them is an amazing honor. But to represent 'Moules and Frites' in a city with so many great Belgian restaurants and big name chefs as Washington D.C., that was the greatest honor," Folkman said in a statement, adding, "it's wonderful the Atlas District and H Street NE in general are finally getting the attention and recognition it deserves."
D.C. bloggers Jason and Amy Storch are also featured as judges in the episode.
Tonight, July 8 @ 9 p.m. on the Food Network
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And the name of the show is?!
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Throwdown with Bobby Flay
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This will be a 2 hour episode to properly convey the service at Granville's
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I'm a vegetarian, so I really can't actually tell which recipe is better, but just the ingredient list in Bobby Flay's dish makes me want to projectile vomit. Coconut milk and mussels? BLARGH. How did he ever become famous with crap like that?
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I'm excited to watch tonight. I never thought I would see the Atlas District on the Food Network. The mussels at Granville Moore's are really good, I hope Teddy wins!
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This will be a 2 hour episode to properly convey the service at Granville's
I don't know where this rap about bad service at Granville Moore's comes from. I've probably been there a half dozen times (with BabyRat and without, in large and small groups) and the service has always been somewhere between very good and great.
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i agree, hillrat. when i've been there its always crowded, but the service has been consistently fantastic. sigh. i really want some frites asap.
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Bethesdaist: Mussels with coconut milk are actually quite common (and delicious!), particularly at Thai restaurants, but perhaps most notably (given the circumstances) on the menu at Granville Moore's.
I can attest, though, that the mussels with bacon, spinach, blue cheese, shallots, white wine and lemon at Granville Moore's are delicious enough to to kick Bobby Flay's pompous ass all the way back to NYC.
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WTF? Flay didn't drown the mussels in that goddamned mango salsa shite? Bitch lays that stuff down like spackle on everything he cooks.
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I was going to make a comment about Bobby's disturbing love for all things mango but monkey man, in first with the snark cockblock.
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I have to agree with Rat about service at Granville Moore's. It's one of the better service experiences. Of course, we've set the bar so low in DC that if your server doesn't actually shoot your or spit on you we are thrilled.
The only complaint (and you knew I'd have one) is that on occasion the servers can be a little impatient and pretentious about their beer selections, especially with customers that aren't regular beer drinkers.
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Hillman - I think the attitude thing is pretty par for the course at a lot of beer snob places, RFD in particular. Rustico is a notable exception. Still, they're usually much less pretentious than your average wine bar. I ordered a burgundy with my Chilean sea bass at Bardeo and the server looked at me like I'd asked for a glass of pee, chilled. I'm like, "Step off, b***h! I'm paying for this joint and if I like red wine with fish, that's how I f***ing roll. Now, where the f**k is my chiogga beet salad? I'm so hongry, my tongue's about to take a s**t down the back of my throat. Chop chop!"
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Didn't anyone catch the fact that they said Granville Moore's was in NW?!
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Truly, I will die unfulfilled if I die without having dined with Monkey.
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@MV - i noticed that too!! didn't they do their homework? ugh.
also, who won? i was watching last night and missed the last five minutes.
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Teddy won.
I was there two weeks ago and the service was really slow. It wasn't "bad" service in that I thought our waitress was doing her best, she just seemed to have too many tables to cover.
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Well, I'm sure they won't have any more crowding problems once every Food Network viewer in the area realizes they can get decent food in Northeast and not get raped on the way back to their Tahoe.
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I love the place, but they probably have the most uncomfortable bar in all of DC.
Seriously guys, you're on effing Food Network, do something about it.
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lanierhts - no! that uncomfortable bar is the only thing keeping your wait time under 5 hours.
as to the source of uncomfortableness, i'm not sure what you mean. do the chairs spontaneously collapse? or does carrot top occasionally show up with his props and tell a couple of terrible jokes? i've sat at the upstairs bar on several occasions and found it pretty comfy.
whatever the reason - making people think its uncomfortable is fine with me.
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i liked the bar just fine myself the one time i was actually able to get in there (it wasn't crowded just once....the secret is the threat of bad weather!)
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or does carrot top occasionally show up with his props and tell a couple of terrible jokes?
I'm pretty sure Carrot Top wouldn't make me uncomfortable so much as want to gouge my eyeballs out with carrot peelers.
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I like GM, but unless you sit at the bar or go on an off-hour, service will likely be slooow, it always seems like they're 1 server short. The servers who are there are knowledgeable, polite, attentive, and overwhelmed.
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The servers who are there are knowledgeable, polite, attentive, and overwhelmed.
Maybe if they were stupid, rude, and dismissive, I'd finally be able to get a table.
But then what you'd have is Bistro Du Coin.
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ok, ok - i guess carrot top falls outside of uncomfortable into full-on painful territory.
what would be within that uncomfort zone? the entire dc council showing up in vaudeville hats as a singing thirt-ette. with fenty on piano.
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what would be within that uncomfort zone?
Any sentence that includes the words "Jim Graham" and "anal love beads."
Including that one.
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Have never, ever, had good service at Dr. G Moore's, ever. In fact, last time I was there, I could hear 3 different tables talking about what an asshole the bartender was.
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Teddy did not win. Bobby did... one of the few times I've seen him win.
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Ted gave a very professional performance. I have never been to Granville Moore's (looks kind of run down) or tasted the mussels, but as a performer he was great.
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ck333: it's supposed to look "run down". it's not a spit-polished, shiny suburban chain, or an upscale, k street joint. it's a neighborhood joint that serves high-quality stuff.
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IMGoph: Sorry if I struck a nerve. I was mostly referring to the exterior shot. I'm just more interested in the performer than the stage. I try to avoid emotional attachments to bars and restaurants.
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True, Bobby didn't incorporate mango salsa, but he did end up using his even more reliable crutch: Chipotle.