What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?

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I miss getting chili at Hard Times. I know there are a couple of locations left, but the Ballston and FFX locations are the ones we frequented and they are long gone.

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That Japanese restaurant in Tenleytown

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Anonymous wrote:I miss getting chili at Hard Times. I know there are a couple of locations left, but the Ballston and FFX locations are the ones we frequented and they are long gone.

I loved the Clarendon location in the ‘90s and the more recently departed one in Bethesda. The one in Rockville is great if you need a fix.

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Anonymous wrote:The Pleasant Pesant which used to be in Mazza Gallery. Especially the desserts.

Thank you for remembering the Pleasant Peasant at Mazza Gallerie! The original Pleasant Peasant was on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. I moved with the Peasant Company in 1983 from Atlanta to Washington to open "PPDC." I helped set up the dessert bar--Paris Brest, Brown Derby cake, the world's tallest lemon merinque pie, fabulous hazelnut fruit tart, deep fried ice cream, and, be still my heart, cappuccino cheesecake with oreo cookie crust.

At lunch, the pizza/pasta menu was downstairs, and the white tablecloth lunch was up the elevator. Remember the giant palm tree that went up through the floor? At night, the downstairs transformed into a piano bar and was packed on the weekends. We didn't take reservations, and a two-hour wait for dinner upstairs was standard operating procedure on a Saturday night. I used to tell handsome, preppy, young guys to come in at 5:30, put their name on the list, go home, relax, take a shower, pick up their date, and come back.

Some nights after work, after midnight, we'd head across the street to American Cafe, which was upstairs above Booeymonger. I always loved the smell of cinnamon coffee that permeated Booey's on a Saturday morning. I hope they haven't changed it.

Hamburger Hamlet just down Wisconsin Avenue was terrific, also. I haven't lived in DC for many years, but oh the memories of the pubs and watering holes in Friendship Heights, Dupont, Georgetown, downtown and Capitol Hill. Is Jenkins Hill still there on Pennsylvania Ave, SE? If so, did they dust the cobwebs from those dead animal heads on the wall even once in the last FORTY YEARS???

Oh my goodness, I didn’t expect to open this post and end up weeping about memories from my 20’s! Perfect details!

My 20s also! And much of my 30s. I wish every person graduating college could move to DC and live downtown, Shaw, Dupont, or Capitol Hill. There is just nothing like it...Marion Barry notwithstanding.

[Anonymous]

For starters: Roma, Yenching Palace, Ireland’s Four Provinces, all in Cleveland Park. Piccadilly?, Connecticut ave, Chevy Chase, DC. Chevy Chase Lounge, one block north. Zebra Room, Wisconsin Ave. Old Mac’s, M st, Georgetown.

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Pomodoro in Fairfax

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Hogates (rum buns!)
Magic Pan Tysons 1970s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I miss getting chili at Hard Times. I know there are a couple of locations left, but the Ballston and FFX locations are the ones we frequented and they are long gone.

Still one in Springfield 15 minutes away!

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Anonymous wrote:I miss getting chili at Hard Times. I know there are a couple of locations left, but the Ballston and FFX locations are the ones we frequented and they are long gone.

Where was the one in Ballston? I remember Clarendon but don't recall Ballston location.

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I’m sure it’s been mentioned. Chesapeake Bay Seafood house. I’d love a bowl of hush puppies right now.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it’s been mentioned. Chesapeake Bay Seafood house. I’d love a bowl of hush puppies right now.

Yup. Just looking at their menu online makes me drool.
Different price points, but the only back in the day seafood restaurants that are still around are Horace and Dickies’s — albeit in new locations, and Crisfield’s. I’ll have to go to Crisfield’s and see if the lobster Norfolk, the fries, and the fried seafood platter are as awesome as I remember them to be.

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I am hating the absence of Amphora in Vienna. We had so many places like that in Chicago; Greek diner/restaurants with extensive menus and great baked goods. One on every corner almost. And here, there was Amphora. And then it closed. Miss it a lot.

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Anonymous wrote:I miss getting chili at Hard Times. I know there are a couple of locations left, but the Ballston and FFX locations are the ones we frequented and they are long gone.

Where was the one in Ballston? I remember Clarendon but don't recall Ballston location.

It was on Wilson, near the Clarendon metro. It was a smaller one.

[Anonymous]

Il Fornaio, in Reston. The company decided to close the only location they had on the East Coast. RTC property management was to blame.

[Anonymous]

Charcoal House in Wheaton Plaza (yes, Wheaton Plaza!). This goes back to when the plaza was open.