When will the restaurants in “downtown” McLean get better?

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Anonymous wrote:When chefs, waiters and bartenders can afford to live in McLean.

Dc has great restaurants and chefs , waiters and bartenders cannot afford to live there.

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Does McLean have section 8 housing?

What does section 8 housing have to do with chefs, bartenders, and waitstaff? Quite random.

They need somewhere to live.

So DC has a great restaurant scene vs McLean because DC has section 8 housing to house waitstaff and McLean does not? Are you drunk already? My DH is a chef and there is no way he would even qualify. Even if he did qualify there is no way he would move our white family into the war zone that is DC public housing. He’s been mugged at night leaving his restaurant in downtown. We would not move to public housing. We’re quite happy here in Fairfax thankyouverymuch. A lot of his staff lives in Maryland actually. The ones who live in DC are young, live in shared homes with people often sharing a bedroom and lots of partying and some with major addiction issues. I can assure you the bartenders would not qualify, nor would most of the waitstaff unless they were getting a ton of cash tips they did not report. He has bartenders making over 6 figures.

Why does he work in DC? Good pay and international recognition. He has always worked in restaurants in major cities and none of it, even when he was a line cook involved section 8 vouchers.

Here's an idea: he could ply his trade in all-white area so your white family wouldn't feel so unsafe anymore . Isn't it ironic that he can't get international recognition in a lily white suburbs? Weird.

+1. DC resident for 22 years and ( gasp) also white!! Why the chip on your shoulder? I wish i knew which restaurant your DH chefs at so I could avoid it. You sound like a racist moron.

NP but I saw literally nothing in PP's post about what race her chef husband and his waitstaff are. YOU are the ones making this about race.

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Anonymous wrote:Have not eaten out in Mclean since Ichiban Sushi closed. Only place we liked.

Same. A tragedy.

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Anonymous wrote:North Arlington is a restaurant wasteland, be happy with McLean!

Um, what? I work in North Arlington. Have you been to...Carbonara, Hawkers, Ruthie's, etc?

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Anonymous wrote:When chefs, waiters and bartenders can afford to live in McLean.

Dc has great restaurants and chefs , waiters and bartenders cannot afford to live there.

Next.

Does McLean have section 8 housing?

What does section 8 housing have to do with chefs, bartenders, and waitstaff? Quite random.

They need somewhere to live.

So DC has a great restaurant scene vs McLean because DC has section 8 housing to house waitstaff and McLean does not? Are you drunk already? My DH is a chef and there is no way he would even qualify. Even if he did qualify there is no way he would move our white family into the war zone that is DC public housing. He’s been mugged at night leaving his restaurant in downtown. We would not move to public housing. We’re quite happy here in Fairfax thankyouverymuch. A lot of his staff lives in Maryland actually. The ones who live in DC are young, live in shared homes with people often sharing a bedroom and lots of partying and some with major addiction issues. I can assure you the bartenders would not qualify, nor would most of the waitstaff unless they were getting a ton of cash tips they did not report. He has bartenders making over 6 figures.

Why does he work in DC? Good pay and international recognition. He has always worked in restaurants in major cities and none of it, even when he was a line cook involved section 8 vouchers.

Here's an idea: he could ply his trade in all-white area so your white family wouldn't feel so unsafe anymore . Isn't it ironic that he can't get international recognition in a lily white suburbs? Weird.

+1. DC resident for 22 years and ( gasp) also white!! Why the chip on your shoulder? I wish i knew which restaurant your DH chefs at so I could avoid it. You sound like a racist moron.

NP but I saw literally nothing in PP's post about what race her chef husband and his waitstaff are. YOU are the ones making this about race.

That PP said: My DH is a chef and there is no way he would even qualify. Even if he did qualify there is no way he would move our white family into the war zone that is DC public housing.

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in McLean and people have been complaining about this since the 80s.

Same

lived in McLean for 30 years and don't understand who runs the place and why are they so against every idea and how are they still alive? Identify yourselves!

who/what is the governing body?

Fairfax County Government

Technically yes, but the McLean Citizens Association seems to control these things, even though they have no authority.

What do you mean by “technically yes”? McLean is not a town. It’s an unincorporated part of Fairfax County and the Citizens Association does nothing except vent a lot of hot air.

Seems to me lots of ideas to “vitalize” McLean come and go but at the end of the day it’s the #$#$& MCA board that votes down everything. But we do have a “parade” and Christmas tree at the tree island intersection of chain bridge rd and old chain bridge road. It’s hilarious. And sad.

Yup, they are old and obstructionist. They pretend to be the “voice of McLean” but they don’t represent anyone under the age of 60. More people need to join to get their voice to actually speak for the people who live there. Or people in charge need to stop listening to them.

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It is a bit of a food desert. And why are there like maybe 8 Italian/pizza joints and not more food diversity?

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Here are the good McLean restaurants - but they are all ‘ethnic’ so maybe that’s why you don’t like them.
Aracosia, Ehsan, Chang Mai, Fahrenheit, Kazan, Amoos, Tachibana, Peter Changs

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Anonymous wrote:When chefs, waiters and bartenders can afford to live in McLean.

Dc has great restaurants and chefs , waiters and bartenders cannot afford to live there.

Next.

Does McLean have section 8 housing?

What does section 8 housing have to do with chefs, bartenders, and waitstaff? Quite random.

They need somewhere to live.

So DC has a great restaurant scene vs McLean because DC has section 8 housing to house waitstaff and McLean does not? Are you drunk already? My DH is a chef and there is no way he would even qualify. Even if he did qualify there is no way he would move our white family into the war zone that is DC public housing. He’s been mugged at night leaving his restaurant in downtown. We would not move to public housing. We’re quite happy here in Fairfax thankyouverymuch. A lot of his staff lives in Maryland actually. The ones who live in DC are young, live in shared homes with people often sharing a bedroom and lots of partying and some with major addiction issues. I can assure you the bartenders would not qualify, nor would most of the waitstaff unless they were getting a ton of cash tips they did not report. He has bartenders making over 6 figures.

Why does he work in DC? Good pay and international recognition. He has always worked in restaurants in major cities and none of it, even when he was a line cook involved section 8 vouchers.

Here's an idea: he could ply his trade in all-white area so your white family wouldn't feel so unsafe anymore . Isn't it ironic that he can't get international recognition in a lily white suburbs? Weird.

+1. DC resident for 22 years and ( gasp) also white!! Why the chip on your shoulder? I wish i knew which restaurant your DH chefs at so I could avoid it. You sound like a racist moron.

NP but I saw literally nothing in PP's post about what race her chef husband and his waitstaff are. YOU are the ones making this about race.

That PP said: My DH is a chef and there is no way he would even qualify. Even if he did qualify there is no way he would move our white family into the war zone that is DC public housing.

I live in DC and didn’t see anything wrong with what the poster said. No one wants to live in public housing if they can help it. Doesn’t matter what your race is