Dish of the Week: French fries more ›

It’s no secret that being an artist and making a living is no easy task. They can only parade themselves around so much before it becomes apparent their work needs a permanent home. The realities of opening a successful gallery are almost worse than restaurant statistics, which have approximately a 60% failure rate. However, as with all things, using a little ingenuity can make great things happen; meaning a delectable little chocolate shop! more ›

Eamonn, Brother There is no stopping the Armstrongs, proprietors of Restaurant Eve in Old Town. Not only are they whizzes in the kitchen, their fecundity (both physical and entrepreneurial) has begot another place to eat. According to Tom, Cathal and Meshelle plan to open Eamonn's/A Dublin Chipper sometime this summer. The place will be a casual joint, unlike the formal (and so worth it) affair that is Eve. It looks like fish and chips will... more ›

Baltimore can now start the bragging -- according to Men's Fitness magazine, it's America's fittest city in 2006. In a surprising jump in rankings, Baltimore, which last year came in at 25, had the second-lowest number of places to buy ice cream of all cities surveyed, ranked third-best in access to health-care, placed in the top 10 in ratio of people to public parks, and enjoyed an exercising populace (8 of 10 residents had gotten... more ›

We've had some good times with WMATA over the years, haven't we? There was the time some guy was eating a candy bar while entering a station and was arrested. Or the time WMATA officials handcuffed a talkative pregnant woman? And, of course, there was that lovely moment when a 12 year-old girl ate a french fry on a Metro platform and, as a result, was searched, handcuffed, put into a paddy wagon, and kept in the juvenile processing center for three hours. Ahh, Metro. Happy golden days. more ›

Any suggestions for good vegetarian eateries in the DC metro area? more ›

Is it OK to eat french fries with mayonnaise? According to American cultural norms, ketchup reigns supreme. Mayonnaise is just, well, sort of French. And in a capital whose House of Representatives has officially done away with french fries (renaming them freedom fries after Franco-American relations soured during the run-up to the Iraq war), it seems that the continental custom of eating frites with mayo would have to be practiced in the attic, hidden from tomato-loving condiment fans who dominate fried food culture. more ›