DCUM foodies, what are the most overrated and underrated restaurants in the DMV?

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Anonymous wrote:Most overrated in my view - Founding Farmers.

+1 FF is not good

One or Sietsema's most scathing reviews ever was FF. Who's saying it's good?

GW kids who drag their parents their for brunch during Parents Weekend and the 20s-30s Instagram set. They seem to LOVE IT for some reason.

I will never really forgive Founding Farmers for trying to push communal tables so hard. No one wants to sit at the communal table. Also, the food is mediocre. It's like bespoke Cheesecake Factory.

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For bagels- check out Chewish Deli in Old Town (I'm from Long Island).

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Anonymous wrote:For bagels- check out Chewish Deli in Old Town (I'm from Long Island).

Sooooo good!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:I find the whole concept of regularly eating out itself to be highly overrated, especially given how reliant restaurants are on addictive ingredients like fat, salt, and sugar.

It took me 35 years to realize that I can cook better tasting and healthier foods at home.

No you can't. This is the lie that dieters/health nuts tell themselves to make themselves feel better about not allowing themselves to eat what they want, but it's never true.

If you could actually cook food that was healthier and objectively better tasting than any restaurant then instead of posting about it on DCUM you'd be talking about it on the Today Show after receiving your Michelin stars and opening the 500th franchise of the restaurant that made you a multimillionaire.

The foodservice industry spends billions every year on healthier alternatives and the best they can come up with is a veggie burger that tastes exactly like a real burger if the only real burger you've ever had came from a public school cafeteria. What do you think is more likely, that you figured out a secret that every massive restaurant group in the world somehow missed, or that your food isn't really as good as you say?

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Anonymous wrote:Most overrated in my view - Founding Farmers.

Tom Sietsema found this thread!

Seriously, though, I agree. I think it is fine, but nothing that should require reservations days in advance.

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Not so much underrated as not even on the radar but really amazing Indian food

https://vegz.us/

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I agree that Rasika is overrated. Good, but not worthy of all the attention Sietsema has given it over the years. I also may be the only person in DC who doesn't care for The Inn at Little Washington. So precious and staged, like Culinary Disneyland.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that Rasika is overrated. Good, but not worthy of all the attention Sietsema has given it over the years. I also may be the only person in DC who doesn't care for The Inn at Little Washington. So precious and staged, like Culinary Disneyland.

I just went for the first time this weekend. It was a cool experience, but i wasn't blown away.

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Anonymous wrote:I find the whole concept of regularly eating out itself to be highly overrated, especially given how reliant restaurants are on addictive ingredients like fat, salt, and sugar.

It took me 35 years to realize that I can cook better tasting and healthier foods at home.

No you can't. This is the lie that dieters/health nuts tell themselves to make themselves feel better about not allowing themselves to eat what they want, but it's never true.

If you could actually cook food that was healthier and objectively better tasting than any restaurant then instead of posting about it on DCUM you'd be talking about it on the Today Show after receiving your Michelin stars and opening the 500th franchise of the restaurant that made you a multimillionaire.

The foodservice industry spends billions every year on healthier alternatives and the best they can come up with is a veggie burger that tastes exactly like a real burger if the only real burger you've ever had came from a public school cafeteria. What do you think is more likely, that you figured out a secret that every massive restaurant group in the world somehow missed, or that your food isn't really as good as you say?

I can't believe how ignorant you are, PP.

Cooking delicious food and running a restaurant business are two totally different things. If you don't know any home cooks that have made absolutely delicious food, then you need to make more friends. Although if your personality is like your post, I can see how that will be difficult.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that Rasika is overrated. Good, but not worthy of all the attention Sietsema has given it over the years. I also may be the only person in DC who doesn't care for The Inn at Little Washington. So precious and staged, like Culinary Disneyland.

I just went for the first time this weekend. It was a cool experience, but i wasn't blown away.

I'm a vegetarian, and I can make every one of the vegetarian dishes served there better at home. Which is insulting, to be honest. Why can't they pay as much attention to their vegetarian dishes as they do to their meat dishes?

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that Rasika is overrated. Good, but not worthy of all the attention Sietsema has given it over the years. I also may be the only person in DC who doesn't care for The Inn at Little Washington. So precious and staged, like Culinary Disneyland.

Perhaps it’s Sietsema’s opinions that are overrated?

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Anonymous wrote:Most overrated in my view - Founding Farmers.

+1 FF is not good

One or Sietsema's most scathing reviews ever was FF. Who's saying it's good?

GW kids who drag their parents their for brunch during Parents Weekend and the 20s-30s Instagram set. They seem to LOVE IT for some reason.

I will never really forgive Founding Farmers for trying to push communal tables so hard. No one wants to sit at the communal table. Also, the food is mediocre. It's like bespoke Cheesecake Factory.

OMG — “bespoke Cheesecake Factory” is the best description of it! $100 for 3 people at the Tyson’s locations for what I could have had at the Galleria Cheesecake Factory across the street.

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Rasika - OVERRATED!! Why people keep suggesting it, is confusing to me. I'm a vegetarian, and the selections are not that good. My first experience with them was when I just wanted a simple order of Raita to go with my meal that I purchased from an Indian Eatery that used to be in the Post Office Food Court (BEST Bhindi Masala Ever!!). Anyway, I can make better Raita than them, and I learned just from watching my Indian friend make it. I went back to them a few times, ordering different entrees, trying to figure out what all the hype was about and each time it was overpriced food that was not very tasty.

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Anonymous wrote:Most overrated in my view - Founding Farmers.

+1 FF is not good

One or Sietsema's most scathing reviews ever was FF. Who's saying it's good?

Came here to say the same thing. Sietsema basically said they couldn't even handle making a martini and the food was pure trash. How is it "overrated?" Even before that review it was a restaurant for the tourists.

Actually, I know a lot of people who fell for the whole "farm-to-table" thing. I have wondered whether they actually like it, or if they think that farm-to-table food is supposed to taste like that

It does seem to be a good option for people with food allergies, though.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most overrated in my view - Founding Farmers.

+1 FF is not good

One or Sietsema's most scathing reviews ever was FF. Who's saying it's good?

Came here to say the same thing. Sietsema basically said they couldn't even handle making a martini and the food was pure trash. How is it "overrated?" Even before that review it was a restaurant for the tourists.

Actually, I know a lot of people who fell for the whole "farm-to-table" thing. I have wondered whether they actually like it, or if they think that farm-to-table food is supposed to taste like that

It does seem to be a good option for people with food allergies, though.

I think you can have really good farm to table. Founding Farmers is not really good. Or even average. It reminds me of Applebee's or TGI Friday's for rich people.