Yummy food

One of the things I got from Trim last week, besides a haircut, was a restaurant recommendation: New Orleans Cafe, 2400 block of 18th. Tonight I met J up there to check it out. The dish I chose was the chicken jambalaya, spicy and delicious. For desert we had beignets (tasting not unlike the funnel cakes that are a mandatory part of any visit to the Delmarva shore).

Besides the food being delicious, the place is comfortable and totally devoid of pretense. The guy taking your order and bringing you the food is, I believe, the owner. And a Sunday night was the perfect time to go, just a handful of hungry locals trickling through as the evening wound on.

I leave you with this mashup, a horrifying mix of the Scissor Sisters, Beatles, Aretha Franklin, and George Michael. Some things were just not meant to be! No One Takes Your Freedom

So here's a bummer -- I'm sitting at this downtown bar, Cheff Geoff's, and I've just polished off a Blue Moon Ale. I'm really ready to call it a night drink wise, but I want a burger -- the burgers there are good -- so I order one, and another Blue Moon to wash it down. Bartender comes back with a brimming pint of Blue Moon, and a dose of bad news -- no burgers. So I got the worst of both worlds, too much to drink and unsatiated desire.

Proliferation Crisis

I just noticed today that a new donut store is opening on P Street NW. That makes three donut stores (that I know of) around Dupont -- Dunkin Donuts on 17th and Krispy Kreme at the Circle are the other two. A few years ago, there were none. What is going on here? Who is eating all these donuts? How do you eat donuts regularly without getting fat?