Because we know you’re itching to belt out La Marseillaise.
Vive la France! Let’s all eat French for a day.
With Bastille Day on the horizon, nosh on some puffy French goodness.
Tomorrow, it is the duty of Francophiles everywhere to rise up and make chaos. Porquois, you ask? It’s Bastille Day, of course. Here are the best ways to stick it to King Louis XVI.
Bastille Day was yesterday, and you know what that means: French maids. No, seriously. DCist staff photographer James Calder was on hand for L’Enfant Cafe and Bar’s Bastille Day Block Party on 18th Street NW, in which teams of “maids” — some with much higher hems than others — tried to move as much champagne from one end of a crowded space to another. With a spoon. There was even some controversy: two teams actually…
The French embassy welcomed the public onto the grounds of it’s La Maison Française over the weekend to get a head start on Bastille Day celebrations with a party benefiting the Comité Tricolore. The Josephine Baker/Roaring 20’s-themed event featured food from 15 local chefs, a silent auction and several live jazz performances….
Image courtesy of acme Dish of the Week: Ma po tofu Ma po tofu is a classic Szechuan dish that includes Szechuan peppercorns, tofu, and ground pork or beef long simmered in a claypot. The Szechuan peppercorns lend an unusual hot-numbing spice, as well as a slightly grassy flavor. Many variations have evolved from that original dish that eliminated or substituted the peppercorns, the meat or the claypot. It’s also common to go to…
Les Halles in Penn Quarter served its final steak frites last night. According to the Going Out Gurus, the 15-year-old restaurant shuttered under the pressure of increased rents in the increasingly ritzy neighborhood, and not from a decline in customers. Hopefully some other local French restaurant will take up the Bastille Day Waiter’s Race hosting duties — any nominees for the job? Maybe Bistrot du Coin? And be sure to raise a glass of Beaujolais…
While celebrating Independence day on July 4 may mark the pinnacle of American patriotism, what else could be more party-worthy than honoring the storming of a prison by a mob of Parisiens – otherwise known as Bastille Day. Although we may be on the other side of the Atlantic, the D.C.-area has a plethora of fêtes and activities for celebrating tonight (or today). Les Halles Perhaps second to the D.C. Pride Weekend’s “Drag Race,” Les…
FRIDAY: >> Even though Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is an obvious choice for the movie-going crowd this weekend, the Avalon Theatre — just north of the Potter madness at the Uptown — is showing Talk to Me, the new biopic on the life of famed Washington, D.C., talk-show host and activist Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. 5:50 and 8:30 p.m. >> Unbuckled alumni The Vita Ruins celebrate the release of their…
