A garlic restaurant.

Anonymous wrote:Montreal bagels
A good smoked meat sandwich place - Katz or Schwartz's

DGS Deli in Dupont Circle imports Montreal bagels -- you can eat them in the restaurant or order a bunch to take home.

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Anonymous wrote:In DC?

Good, everyday Chinese, preferably Sichuan or Hunan. We were in the Bay Area over the summer and went to a neighborhood joint in Walnut Creek/Pleasant Hills area whose prices were on par with DC take out places but so yummy - real cooking, not dripping in packaged sauces.

Agree with this. I have found the Chinese food all over the city and 'burbs very disappointing.

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Yes, this. I'm from Toronto and I basically just don't go out for Chinese food when I'm in DC because it has been uniformly disappointing.

Anonymous wrote:Good Indian-Chinese. Toronto has some great ones. I crave Chili-Garlic noodles and Gobi Manchurian.

Where do you go for Indian-Chinese in Toronto? My folks' favorite place growing up was Federick's in the GTA.

Anonymous wrote:A quality bagel and smoked fish place. Not highbrow - just good lox and whitefish on decent bagels.

+1 Yes!!! A real bagel place. There have been some pop-ups that have been really good, but it would be nice to have a permanent great bagel place.

Anonymous wrote:Russian or polish restaurant. I'd love some kasha varnishkas and eggplant caviar. Pierogis.

Also, a Puerto Rican restaurant that has amazing ropa vieja.

For Russian - Marivanna downtown is pretty good and the deserts remind me of my childhood. It's a bit pricy for a Russian restaurant (IMO) but I like it. Rus-Uz in NoVa is good, looks like a larger version of my grandma's kitchen and is cheaper (has both Russian and Uzbek food).