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Dish of the Week: Strip club dining
This week, City Paper's Tim Carman took reviews to uncharted territory by dining at two area strip clubs. It's one thing to go Hooters (which claims to be a "family" restaurant) with the excuse that they supposedly have good buffalo wings. We've all heard that one (by the way, the wings are terrible). And many of us have joked about going to Fast Eddie's for lunch and sneaking over to Archibald's. But Carman follows through on this one.
So how was the food? Apparently, not bad. The "jerk" chicken at Camelot is surprisingly juicy with above average mashed potatoes. And the "strip" steak at Crystal City Restaurant was well-seasoned, and better than he had ever expected. (Could he have picked entrees with more loaded names?) So that does bring up the strange question... any other strip joints with decent food?
Small Bites
What recession?
This week brings news of several restaurant group expansions around D.C. Starting from the east, Baltimore-based Dangerously Delicious Pies will bring its sweet and savory pies to H Street. It should be a great topper after stopping off at the new ramen and dumpling bar that is expected above The Pug, which we had long been hoping for.
London dim sum chain Ping Pong Dim Sum will be making its way to Chinatown. Dare we hope that Chinatown could actually have some Chinese food options? Granted the restaurant looks to be more of the trendy, upscale dim sum, but the menu looks traditional and the pictures show some gorgeous blooming teas.
And as if the 14th Street corridor weren't already chock full of options, the owners of Policy plan a "top-shelf burger joint", and the owners of Marvin and the Gibson are taking over the block with a bakery/wine bar.
Remember the Rickey
Just a reminder that August 3, Bourbon in Adams Morgan will be hosting the 2nd Annual Rickey Party from 6:30-10:30 p.m., with a $10 cover that includes one free drink.
DC Restaurant Week
DC Restaurant Week dates were announced, and will be held August 24-30. Lunches will be $20.05, and dinners will be $35.09. Check out Capital Spice's map of locations, and stayed tuned with DC Foodies for the best roundup of RW menus. We all know we want to get the best bang for our buck.
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The dancers at Crystal City Restaurant are also better than Archibalds'.
Or so I've heard.
Also, "top-shelf burger joints" are the new gourmet cupcakeries. How many of these do we really need? WTF can't we get some friggin bottom-shelf burger joints, like White Castle or Krystal? I walk into Cava, a perfectly good Greek restaurant, and what are they pushing? The gourmet lamb/jalapeno/feta sliders! Another place down the street was peddling barbecue sliders. I've lost track of all the seared ahi tuner sliders I've seen, and that's not to mention the damned Kobe beef burgers, which never made any sense to me since it's supposed to be eaten like a steak, not ground up. What is the point of forcefeeding cows beer and massaging them all day so that the fat is marbled into the meat if you're just going to gring the $h!t up anyway? Get regular beef and grind the fat into it and you've just saved yourself $30 a pound. And another thing, why the f**k do hotdogs come 10 to a pack, but the motherf**king buns come 8 to a pack? Who's the f**king genius who thought that $h!t up? I don't know who he is but he ought to be forcefed hotdogs and massaged by a team of Russian Olympic wrestlers, then taken to Junkpunchers and made to eat eight goddamned seared ahi tuna sliders as well as those extra two buns leftover in the package.
The only upscale mini-burgers I've tried are the ones at Matchbox and they're excellent.
I like the sliders at Hard Times because they're half price during happy hour and they go well with draft beer (also half price during happy hour.)
I agree on the slider over-saturation. Kill it. Bring in Krystal. And keep the pork bbq biscuit sliders (1/2 price - happy hour) at Acadiana, because those are just insanely good. And biscuit > mini brioche.
I wont even touch the peanuts at most of these places....Your a better man than I!
My kitchen.
I'd imagine you'll generally find better/cheaper food at Virginia strip clubs than DC ones, if only because a large amount of food sales will help them satisfy the particularly convoluted accounting requirements for strip clubs and bars in Virginia.
Oh my goodness Jamie, I am knocking your foodie cred down a peg for the comment on Hooter's wings. They're not mind-blowing, as some claim, but they are far, far from "terrible." In fact, they are reliably consistent!
Agreed. Hooters wings, while not Anchor-bar delicious, are decent. The only thing better than Hooters' wings are Hooters' breasts. Sometimes the thighs. Only rarely the faces.
I hear Ziegfeld's/Secrets in SW has good hot dogs.
Does anyone know where you can get a lap dance in this area?