April Fulton

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• Posted Melt the Ice of Hearts to DCist
  Another Feb. 14, another snowstorm in Washington. If you’d prefer to stay in for Valentine’s Day, you are not alone, especially in this weather. For those hardy souls willing to don snowboots but who did not have the wherewithal to make dinner reservations in December, the upside may be that there are a few great tables going empty tonight in your favorite restaurants. Washingtonian’s Best Bites Blog tips us that OpenTable.com had some good tables...
• Posted The Great Grocery Store Chase to DCist
  D.C.'s lack of choice when it comes to gourmet grocery stores may be coming to an end, although not everything is panning out as planned. A long hoped-for Whole Foods Market on 14th Street in Columbia Heights seems all but dead. “We have no immediate plans for that location,” Sarah Kenney, Whole Foods Market, director of marketing for the mid-Atlantic Region tells DCist. Over a year ago, Whole Foods signed a Letter Of Intent (LOI)...
• Posted Silver Spring Steps Into Restaurant Week Mania to DCist
  Restaurant Week is becoming the must have fashion accessory for the D.C. area this winter. Everyone’s got to have one. Case in point: Silver Spring, a long-suffering suburban “edge city” that has been on the upswing for the last few years is officially entering the fray to show off its shiny new dining scene February 5-11. THIS JUST IN: The price for a 2-course lunch will be just $12, while a 3-course dinner will be...
• Posted An Equal Opportunity Burn to DCist
  Every now and then, D.C.’s government inserts itself into the lives of ordinary citizens just out for a little nip with their lunch. Exhibit A: Our blogger friends over at Washingtonian are reporting the surprise and inconvenience many patrons of "better" dining establishments like 2Amys, Crème, Bistro du Coin, and Asia Nora felt upon seeing temporary liquor license suspension tags in these restaurants' windows recently. We say it’s a good thing. Not good, as in...
• Posted The Weekly Feed: Gastrobypass 2006 Edition to DCist
  Loosen that Belt, but Keep Your Surgery to Yourself As we enter the final stretch-of-the-pants holiday eating season, perhaps we all feel a little tight in the trousers, but apparently not as much as the chatters last week over on TomChat offering their inane advice on what a poor patron who has undergone gastric bypass surgery should tell a waiter who wonders why so much of a meal has been left on the plate. The...