For our non-DC readers (miss you, Cali kids), the Express is owned by The Washington Post and is like the Reader's Digest condensed version of the daily paper that they give you for free on the metro every morning to distract you from starting fights with bitches who try to bludgeon you with umbrellas.
The format, as always, is 8 billion categories, each with multiple choice options and a write in option. The multiple choice options say more to me about each restaurant's publicist than any establishment's eminence in any given category. The five or six given as options are definitely not the five or six best establishments in each category.
How do I know? Aside from being on a never-ending restaurant tour of this city, fucking Art and Soul has gotten themselves listed in a nausea-inducing number of categories. Seriously, Art and Soul, you're terrible, and the only way you get yourself in so many categories has got to be by still having your publicist on staff from your opening.
So, I do encourage you to vote:
- For anyone but Art and Soul in every category they appear in
- For Dino as best Italian restaurant
- For this here blog as a total long shot write in for "Local Blog" way down the list under "Home & Away"
Advocate for your faves in comments. I'm particularly interested to hear which cupcakery folks prefer and how you're voting in the sushi category since Sushi Taro underwent it's metamorphosis.
favorite sushi: sticky rice up on h street! totally funky, fun attitude and never ending deliciousness! i recommend the sticky balls...don't laugh!
ReplyDeletecupcakery: i'm leaning towards furin in georgetown - i'm a sucker for big, chubby cupcakes without too much gourment fuss. plus the halloween ones in the window are just too cute!
I've heard fantastic things about Sticky Rice, and literally every time someone mentions it, they mention the sticky balls. Usually being able to recommend something called sticky balls to others would be enough of a reason for me to go to a restaurant, but alas, every time I'm that close to Granville Moore's, it's like no other restaurant exists.
ReplyDeleteNext time we go out lets go to Sticky Rice for dinner and Granville's for dessert. And mussels.
ReplyDeleteI ordered a cake from Furin's once for an office party. Best chocolate anything I've ever eaten. Cupcakes need to die though. Srsly.
Donuts are the new cupcakes, I'm calling it.
ReplyDeleteI don't see anyone eating a donut after lunch, or as a mid-day snack, and you can't make mini donuts that taste good, the crust-to-fluff ratio is all wrong. It'd be like serving an entree of scrambled eggs. Good, no doubt, but too counter-culture to catch on. And donuts have been done. Thanks Krispy Kreme.
ReplyDeleteMussel cheesecake is the new cupcake. That's a winner.
I didn't mean people would eat them in the same way/at the same time, I meant that they'd be the new once-pedestrian-goes-gourmet food trend...which yes, means that your Krispy Kreme shout out proves my point.
ReplyDeleteI was up in New York the other week and everywhere that I went to brunch had homemade donuts on the menu. I had some fantastic ones with a raspberry reduction at Back Forty. 2 Amys already has them on their weekend brunch menu.