Taberna del Alabardero’s monthly wine dinner offers guests a chance to eat and drink in the gilded age of Continental European cuisine.

Go eat some paella!

Photo by jimbographer Esquire created a list of top 10 restaurant cities, placing D.C. in eighth position. Even after the disastrously painful-to-watch Top Chef D.C. spent half of the season outside of the city proper, there’s still no doubt that we attract fantastic talent in our kitchens. Unsurprisingly we come in behind, in rank order, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas. But we were somewhat surprised to see…

Meat and breading, fried. With croquetas, what’s not to love? Some variation of croquetas is found in almost every single culinary tradition.

Not ever having had the luxury of taking anyone to an expense account meal at Taberna Del Alabardero—and having failed on more than one occasion to convince my boss that he should take our staff there for a holiday party or birthday celebration—I chose the Old-World Spanish cuisine restaurant for last week’s Restaurant Week pilgrimage. Taking almuerzo there Sunday was a decision that proved delightful at nearly every turn, from the grinning, attentive service to…