Table Talk
November-December 2010
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12/29/10A Very Big Restaurant YearMemories of veal chops, mushroom tarts and Michaele Salahi. |
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12/21/10Wild Tomato Coming to FruitionA sneak peek inside Damian Salvatore's new restaurant. |
12/17/10Dinner at K Town BistroKensington’s newest restaurant pleasant but unpolished. Posted at 11:44 AM | Permalink | Comments: 1 |
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12/14/10Rock Creek Restaurant ClosingFormer Bezu chef-owner to open eatery in the space. |
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12/09/10Quiches, Kugels and CouscousLocal Jewish cookbook author Joan Nathan to appear at Bezu book signing and dinner. |
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12/07/10Inside MatchboxThe pizza bistro opening in Rockville is a wow. |
12/03/10It’s a Guys’ ThingCava Restaurant teams up with Mamma Lucia. |
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12/02/10Happy HanukkahUptown Deli holding holiday fest. |
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11/30/10Time for TartsSave room for Tout de Sweet, a new French pastry shop opening in Bethesda. |
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11/26/10Get Ready for JettiesJetties, the popular sandwich and salad spot in Northwest Washington, is bringing its freshly carved turkey sandwiches to Bethesda. |
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11/17/10Lots of Picks at Park PotomacPark Potomac, a new urban village, has attracted a number of restaurants. |
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11/12/10Newest Silver Diner Strikes GoldA shiny new Silver Diner opens right up Rockville Pike. |
11/12/10Where’s Bubbe?In the annals of Jewish cooking, matzo balls roll one way or another: light and fluffy, or heavy and leaden. I’m sorry to say that at the new Uptown Deli, they definitely leaned toward the latter. |
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11/11/10Chef Jeff Heineman Opening New England-style Seafood ShackEven though he didn’t like eating clams as a kid, Chef Jeff Heineman has fond memories of going clamming with his Grandpa Freddie on family vacations in Maine. Now that he’s all grown up and running the successful Grapeseed American Bistro and Wine Bar in Bethesda, he loves the shellfish.Grandpa and New England are the inspiration behind Heineman’s new project, Freddie’s Lobster and Clams, a seafood restaurant he’s opening in about six weeks right next to Grapeseed, in the short-lived Café Prezzo space at 4867 Cordell Ave.“Chic, low-end fried fish,” is how Heineman describes the menu, which aside from fish and chips, clams strips, clam cakes and whole belly clams, will include lobsters, lobster rolls and hot dogs. There will be counter... |
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11/09/10Not a Show StopperIt’s safe to say that $66 is the most I’ve ever spent on dinner for two at a cafeteria. But that was the tab for two $19 apiece entrees (served in cardboard trays) and a $28 half bottle of wine (in plastic cups) at Next Stage by Jose Andres, the new café in the recently rebuilt Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Southwest Washington. Bethesda’s José Andrés Catering with Ridgewells, the collaboration between the well-known chef and the longtime local caterer, won the bid for food service operations there, which includes the café, a concession stand, refrigerator case items, boxed lunches and more. Cleverly, the menus will change, inspired by the theater’s current production. “Oklahoma!” is... |
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