Anonymous
Post 10/08/2023 20:02     Subject: What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?
Anonymous wrote:Chi chi's. I don't know why.
+1,000
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2023 20:01     Subject: Re:What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?
Anonymous wrote:
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!
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2023 19:45     Subject: What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?
Anonymous wrote:Phineas on Rockville Pike. Sir Walter Raleigh Inn. Oscar’s in Rockville. Bagel City and Fuddruckers


+1

I was a kid and thought the first 3 places were so fancy.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2023 19:44     Subject: Re:What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?
Anonymous wrote:
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???


Thank you for sharing such detailed memories! I remember the the giant tree that went up through the floor! Until I read your comment, I wondered if I’d imagined that!

I really liked American Cafe too.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2023 19:42     Subject: What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?
Malibu Grill in Annandale. It was like Fogo de Chao but much, cheaper.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2023 19:39     Subject: What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?
Bish Thompson’s
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2023 19:36     Subject: What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Chesapeake Bay Seafood House


Best hush puppies ever!!


I loved the deviled crabs.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2023 19:34     Subject: Re:What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?
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???
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2023 11:50     Subject: What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?
Farrell's.

I was just telling my spouse the other day how it's shocking that no entrepreneur has revived the concept of an ice cream parlour where people of all ages can go have happy birthday sung to them and enjoy a birthday ice cream with flaming candle brought to the table with a big bass drum as accompaniment. I still went to Farrell's in college, it was that much fun.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2023 11:43     Subject: Re:What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?
Bangkok Joe’s in Georgetown
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2023 22:56     Subject: What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?
Always and forever Kinkead's. Oh, and Bistro Francais.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2023 22:56     Subject: What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?
Farmbird
Anonymous
Post 06/16/2023 14:09     Subject: What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?
Anonymous wrote:Cafe Asia!


I damn near had to be carried out of Cafe Asia happy hours several times back in the day.
Anonymous
Post 06/16/2023 14:04     Subject: What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?
Anonymous wrote:Ray’s the Steaks


Yes, all of them! His burger place too.... what happened??
Anonymous
Post 06/16/2023 14:03     Subject: What restaurant ( now closed) do you miss?
Sally's Middle Name