Washington DC

Last Saturday, six of us gathered for a dinner at Thai Ghang Waan in Springfield. On my two previous visits, I was greeted with two menus. One was a one pager written in Thai and a folded menu wi...

by Melanie Wong 2 years ago

Last night Pim Techamuanvivit discovered that Grubhub, Seamless and Yelp delivery services have fake listings for her San Francisco restaurant, Kin Khao, to accept food orders on their sites. Her r...

I have noticed it more and more. Restaurants are posting up to a 3% processing fee to your final bill. I guess its an effort to defray some of the loss eateries incur to credit card companies. They...

I was about to buy a jar of pickled tamarind leaf form my local Thai Market (Rabeing, Bailey’s Crossroads) when I got a quizzical look from the cashier. “That is very hard to cook with. You shoul...

Eight Chowhounds got together for lunch at this Montgomery County outpost for Chettinad cusine, from a micro-region in the Tamil Nadu state of India. Two excellent places in NoVa closed down, so I...

Tried three small plates plus one big bowl of noodles at this new spot for Yunnanese cuisine. Many of the dishes are named after specific towns in the Yunnan Province. The small plates were a d...

by Melanie Wong 4 months ago

New York's famed Milk Bar has been blanketing the San Francisco Bay Area with pop-up events and pick-up/delivery through a partnership with DoorDash to test out potential locations for brick-and-mo...

Tried three biscuit sandwiches here recently. One roast beef, one fried chicken, and one bbq pork. The woman taking my order chirped in that the roast beef was listed as one of the top 25 sandw...

I never paid much attention to the Lee's Sandwiches chain until I saw one of the food tv shows (was it Bourdain?) where they highlighted Lee's in the Little Saigon area of Orange County as a prime ...

How is the dining scene right now around The Beltway? Missed our trips to the area during the pandemic. What are the protocols? What's new in the culinary? Will be staying with family in Fairfax, V...

This Market is on P Street and is Tuesdays from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. not a lot of vendors, and there seem to be less every week, but there's some unique ones including bureks, two fish vendors, c...

First post-vaccination meal out in public, and Thip Khao delivers on an excellent meal. Can't go wrong with the sai oua, beef jerky, nam khao, watertcress salad, and it was great to add the tom yu...

I was running errands today and felt like getting a Banh Mi sandwich so I stopped by Lee’s on Annandale Road, got #11 the Special Combo w extra pate. It was pretty good but the combination of the e...

by MikeR 5 months ago

This is one of my lunch favorites and they're finally serving at the indoor tables, but at this time, dining in is only for lunch 11:30 to 2:30. It seems that while it's still the same family and s...

by MikeR 6 months ago

I'm pleased to report that, contrary to my experiences re-visiting restaurants that I regularly visited pre-pandemic not being as good now, China Wok, which is now open for indoor dining, is as goo...

It's my anniversary and I need to pick a cozy/romantic restaurant in Alexandria or Arlington on the double. I would like something nice but not "fine dining" -- entrees in $18-32 range. Cuisine: fl...

by MikeR 6 months ago

It's not just chicken wings (and other parts of the chicken) that are getting expensive. Driving home around lunch time today and knowing that I'll be going past Lee's Sandwiches, thought I'd p...

Hi, We have a reservation for two people on Friday 6/25 at 8:30 for Jônt (newly awarded two Michelin stars). I learned we cannot make the reservation and am happy to sell/transfer it. If you a...