Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 14:40     Subject: I really miss DC circa 2002
Citronelle
Makoto
Le Pavillon
Duke's
A bit earlier Jean Louis at the Watergate
Thankfully Sushi Taro is still here.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 14:37     Subject: I really miss DC circa 2002
Primi Piatti!
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 14:11     Subject: I really miss DC circa 2002
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Everything was better 25 years ago. Food, clothing, wine, climate.


…People.


Mostly people. But everything sucks now. Everything is cheap and cheaply made. The weather sucks. Food is mostly fake highly processed frankenfood. All of it the epitome of trash.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 11:06     Subject: I really miss DC circa 2002
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Everything was better 25 years ago. Food, clothing, wine, climate.


+1


My income is ten times better so that I can actually enjoy those things instead of working 80 hours a week just to afford our rat trap in the inner suburbs and a Metro bus pass.


Sure but if you were making the same income you are now, even de-adjusted for inflation, in 2002 you'd be able to afford a whole lot more.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 07:19     Subject: I really miss DC circa 2002
I LOVED La Piazza. I was so sad when they sold. They had the absolute best penne vodka.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 07:19     Subject: I really miss DC circa 2002
Two words: Cafe Japone.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 06:01     Subject: I really miss DC circa 2002
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Everything was better 25 years ago. Food, clothing, wine, climate.


+1


My income is ten times better so that I can actually enjoy those things instead of working 80 hours a week just to afford our rat trap in the inner suburbs and a Metro bus pass.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 05:55     Subject: I really miss DC circa 2002
I don’t especially agree with OP’s premise, but I’ve never enjoyed a meal as much as I did at Komi.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 23:05     Subject: I really miss DC circa 2002
Citronelle
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 23:00     Subject: I really miss DC circa 2002
Anonymous wrote:Obelisk!!!! Etrusco!!! Georgia Brown's.


Obelisk is still around.

And for Guapo’s you have to order the carne asada to get good steak fajitas and just ask them to grill you a jalapeno.

I miss the cheap pasta places like Pasta Mia in Adams Morgan and that AYCE place that Roberto Donna but those were probably both gone by 2002.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 22:50     Subject: I really miss DC circa 2002
Johnny’s Half Shell
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 22:31     Subject: I really miss DC circa 2002
I didn't come to DC until 2004, but I remember liking Georgia Brown's, Pho 75, Lauriol Plaza, and Jaleo. There were plenty of chains--I remember corner bakery, chipotle, and krispy kreme opening--but lots of local places too. I still regret not going to Palena! And I remember walking by DC Coast on the way to work and thinking it was SO FANCY.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 22:01     Subject: I really miss DC circa 2002
Anonymous wrote:Everything was better 25 years ago. Food, clothing, wine, climate.


…People.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 21:52     Subject: I really miss DC circa 2002
Obelisk!!!! Etrusco!!! Georgia Brown's.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2025 16:17     Subject: I really miss DC circa 2002
It was the best pre-9/11.

I had the most amazing blueberry risotto at Galileo once. Tried recreating it many times, could not.