Please welcome the newest DCist food contributor, Adam Bailey DCist has fond memories of chalkboards, small tables, and walls covered with primary colors from our kindergarten days decades ago. What would conjure those feelings again, so many years later? A classroom? Maybe a carton of milk and a midday nap? No; Pesce, one of D.C.’s best deals for great fish. While the ingredients for the food here may be elementary, the final results are definitely…

Thanks to all the readers who sent us their experiences from Restaurant Week. Your comments — and others culled from various local contacts — showed surprising uniformity. It seems that in D.C. there are restaurants that do Restaurant Week right, and some that don’t — with little space in between. A loud chorus of voices, both from e-mail and on DonRockwell’s forum, were pleased with the Restaurant Week offerings of Corduroy (memo to the staff…

DCist was alarmed to see Corduroy on the D.C. Department of Health’s February Food Closure List. The closure of the popular restaurant took place on Feb. 24, with the restaurant re-opening later that same day. The only other establishment to be closed in February was New Star Market in Northeast, shut down for (among other things) operating without a license and evidence of rodents inside the establishment. Corduroy has been lauded by local foodies for…