Barbo wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2024 5:47 pmAnd far fewer big ass trucks than I am used to.

OrthodoxEaster wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 12:04 pm

goatbreather wrote: Going to DC for a few days soon. Besides the museums, memorials and mall i don't have much idea what i'm doing. Looking for recommendations for bookstores, bars, venues, restaurants, movie theaters, comix shops, record stores, neighborhoods, parks, weird shit... whatever anyone's got. Much obliged

Been a while, but Elfegne for Ethiopian food. (I've only been to its previous incarnation as Zenebech, but I can't imagine it having fallen off.) DC has a robust Ethiopian community, and so it's something of a specialty cuisine in town.

Haven't rocked it in almost a decade, but Daikaya was good for Sapporo-style ramen downstairs and izakaya-style food and bar action upstairs.

If you feel like battling traffic or taking the metro for 40 minutes, I can also vouch for some regional Chinese places in the Maryland suburbs, but something tells me Rockville wouldn't otherwise be a compelling enough destination for you.

twelvepoint wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 7:32 pm

The Yeoman Ghost wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 6:37 pm My wife and I will be on vacation in London in few weeks (staying in Leicester Square). Might anyone have any favorite vegetarian-friendly restaurants in the area? (Or city-wide, someplace that would offer an archetypical “cozy English pub” experience with good vegetarian options?)

Many thanks for any suggestions you might have!

Nopi, an Ottolenghi restaurant, is really great. Lots of vegetarian options. Dishoom is awesome Indian, again, lots of veggie dishes. Most pubs we went to (we we just there) had veggie curries and often veg burger options. Should be pretty easy to go meatless over there, and that applies to other places we went outside of London as well.

TylerDeadPine wrote: Fri Sep 06, 2024 6:22 pm heading to Salt Lake City tomorrow for a few days - other than the outdoors, any record shops, vegan food, coffee or urban eccentricities that could be suggested?

LuciousSandwich wrote: Fri Sep 06, 2024 6:30 pm

TylerDeadPine wrote: Fri Sep 06, 2024 6:22 pm heading to Salt Lake City tomorrow for a few days - other than the outdoors, any record shops, vegan food, coffee or urban eccentricities that could be suggested?

I haven't been in many years, but I recall the parts of the massive Mormon temple complex that non-members are allowed to visit being something that could certainly qualify as urban eccentricities.

twelvepoint wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 7:32 pm

The Yeoman Ghost wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 6:37 pm My wife and I will be on vacation in London in few weeks (staying in Leicester Square). Might anyone have any favorite vegetarian-friendly restaurants in the area? (Or city-wide, someplace that would offer an archetypical “cozy English pub” experience with good vegetarian options?)

Many thanks for any suggestions you might have!

Nopi, an Ottolenghi restaurant, is really great. Lots of vegetarian options. Dishoom is awesome Indian, again, lots of veggie dishes. Most pubs we went to (we we just there) had veggie curries and often veg burger options. Should be pretty easy to go meatless over there, and that applies to other places we went outside of London as well.

The Yeoman Ghost wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 6:04 pm

twelvepoint wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 7:32 pm

The Yeoman Ghost wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 6:37 pm My wife and I will be on vacation in London in few weeks (staying in Leicester Square). Might anyone have any favorite vegetarian-friendly restaurants in the area? (Or city-wide, someplace that would offer an archetypical “cozy English pub” experience with good vegetarian options?)

Many thanks for any suggestions you might have!

Nopi, an Ottolenghi restaurant, is really great. Lots of vegetarian options. Dishoom is awesome Indian, again, lots of veggie dishes. Most pubs we went to (we we just there) had veggie curries and often veg burger options. Should be pretty easy to go meatless over there, and that applies to other places we went outside of London as well.

I’ve heard it said that the club with the longest line at the door is the one you should choose. On this rainy Tuesday night in London’s West End, there was a line at Dishoom that stretched around the corner and down the block. (By contrast, adjacent Olea Social was embarrassingly empty. My wife looked it up on Google, just to see if it was, in fact, open; Google reported that it was, and—comically, or perhaps tragically—that it was “Busier than usual” at that hour.)

We stuck it out (helped by the free chai and complimentary umbrella graciously proffered by the restaurant staff). And it was entirely worth it.

The chili and tomato chutney was my new favorite thing ever. (And I have traditionally considered myself as hating chilis and equivocal-at-best about tomatoes.) I put it on everything. I had to order a second side of it.

FM Twelvepoint, you have my thanks.