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Where: Tomatillo Taqueria

Where: Acadiana, Breadline, Johnny's Half Shell, Bardia's, and Hank's Oyster Bar

    

It's been a delicious year in D.C. The city has seen a number of interesting new restaurants and eatieries, including spots like CommonWealth, Art and Soul, Cork Wine Bar, Adour, and Ray's Hell-Burger. The DCist food staff got together to look back on their favorite dishes, desserts, and drinks of 2008.

Dish of the Week: Brit cuisine

             

CommonWealth, the new British gastropub from Chef Jamie Leeds, officially opened last night. DCist got a sneak peek on Friends and Family Night on Monday.

Drink of the Week: Gin rickey

The recent warm up has my mind on summery drinks. There are the usuals: mojitos, gin and tonics, daquiris, and margaritas. But there's one summer drink that's most associated with the lawn at Wimbledon: the Pimm's Cup. The refreshing Pimm's is traditionally made with Pimm's #1 (a gin-based spirit infused with various spices and a hint of orange), lemonade, and garnished with borage leaves, mint, and slices of orange, apple, lemon and strawberry. Something about it is reminiscent of cola, but more complex and, dare I say, pretty. And this stuff sure goes down easy.