What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?

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I just scrolled through 50 pages to not see Strombolis on Wisconsin ave yet to be mentioned - which I can only assume means that place, its pizza, and ambiance was all just a magnificent dream.

The rest of the answer key to this test:

Boogies Diner in Georgetown
Sir Walter Raleigh Bethesda
Roy’s on River
Houlihans Friendship Heights
Sutton Place Gourmet (the deli) NW
Giffords on Woodmont

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Hausner’s in Baltimore

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Silver Spring:

Woodside Deli
Tastee Diner
Armonds

Dc:
Chadwick’s

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DC (AM specifically):
Amsterdam House? Where they had the Falafal fixin's bar

There was a French Restaurant in AM on 18th St (started with an 'F", (I forget what is there now), but I loved their brunch and every time I walk by, it makes me sad that it left.

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Anonymous wrote:Hausner’s in Baltimore

+1 I was just about to say this. It was an original to be sure.

I think it's mentioned earlier in the thread, but I miss Chicken Out.

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Orleans House in Rosalyn-prime rib and big salad bar.


And yes to Chicken Out!

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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.

Indeed. I’ve fantasized about this place for too many hours of my life. Fried shrimp, clams, fish and amazing hush puppies. So sad.

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Four Sisters 😢

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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.

LOL GTFOH with young people in DC. Yeah, no.

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Did anyone mention the after hours place in Georgetown? Supposedly a spy snuck out the bathroom window?

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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???

Plus, walking down the steps into Chadwick’s across the street.

Yes! Chadwick's! There was also a sweet cafe inside the Lord & Taylor that the white-haired set just loved. Oh, how I miss that Friendship Heights vibe. And remember the McDonald's that was I guess in the basement of Mazza Gallerie? I think you went down some stairs from Jenifer Street. I had heard that that was the highest grossing McDonald's in the U.S. How did THAT ever go out of business?

+1 for Chadwick's. That was the first restaurant I ever went to when I moved to DC 18 years ago. Ended up moving into a shared house in Friendship Heights with some college friends and Chadwick's became our go-to place for happy hours after work and grad school study sessions. It was a great neighborhood bar and the food was pretty good too.

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I really feel like going to Amphora. Alas, it is no more. We had places like this on every corner when I lived in Chicago -- is there anywhere else in the DMV?

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Anonymous wrote:DC (AM specifically):
Amsterdam House? Where they had the Falafal fixin's bar

There was a French Restaurant in AM on 18th St (started with an 'F", (I forget what is there now), but I loved their brunch and every time I walk by, it makes me sad that it left.

La Fourchette?

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Anonymous wrote:Hausner’s in Baltimore

Yes! Eating there was a unique experience.

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New Orleans Cafe in Adams Morgan!!!