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Sexy rose-lovin' BYOB picks for #Austin: TX French Bread, G'raj Mahal, Asia Cafe, J Mueller BBQ, and (wait for it)...Vegan Yacht? Believe. (Apr 30)
Fearless Critic restaurant review of the day
DC
Food
Feel
Price
8.7
6.5
$25
Great Pakistani in an unlikely (or is it likely?) Maryland location

How spectacular is Maryland’s diversity?

This spectacular: one of the best, and most authentic, Pakistani Muslim restaurants in the mid-Atlantic United States is in a mall called “La Unión,” presumably (though not verifiably) named after a coastal city in a humble corner of El Salvador. This is no accident: this is just another in-the-course-of-everyday-business reflection of the overlap of two of the area’s cohabitating ethnic groups—and just another little token of the everyday miracle of the American experiment.

Tabeer, attached… [More]


From the Super ’Stache The underpriced underdogs
DC
Food
Feel
Price
9.0
6.0
$15
Roti, roti, roti...what more can we say?

When you like roti—that griddled flatbread of unequalled richness, served with potato curry—it can become a craving.

We admit to being sufferers. It seems to be universally acknowledged, within the West Indian community of DC and the suburbs, that this Trinidadian place up Georgia Avenue makes the best roti around—and we wholeheartedly agree.

Certainly Teddy’s is a plain-walled dive, but would you expect to get good roti anywhere else? And certainly the service is brusque; fail to finish your food,… [More]