Washington D.C., April 7, 2009 —
ONE OF MY FAVORITE restaurants — I'll write the history of this over at The Eastside View tomorrow — Obelisk is small and comfortable, serving forty or so diners a prix-fixe five-course dinner impeccably Italian. It was good to see the kitchen maintains today standards I noticed fifteen or twenty years ago. We began with antipasti chosen by the kitchen, which turned out to be:
And the other four courses followed:
and no green salad. Details will appear tomorrow at that Eastside View.
Arneis, Roero, 2007; Carmenere Piu, Inama, 2006 (C.); Arte, Clerico, 2005 (L.)
2 comments:
I stayed in DC once scouting books about a decade ago. Can it have been that long? Good lord!
I stayed at a very modern motel which called itself a bed and breakfast, very near the river, and only about two blocks away from a delightful little restaurant where I had a full course dinner with cocktail, wine and dessert--all by myself, two nights running. The place had an odd construction, old dry wood with many small-paned windows, strange alcove-y little solitary tables against the street-side. I'll never remember the name.
It was Fall--October I think--and the place was gorgeous, all oranges and browns and yellows, and breezy. Foray up to see the Ahearns. Maryland. The Triangle.
Lovely place, DC, even the old-fashioned row houses in the poorer sections.
Must go back.
Oh, Curtis, can't you go into deep selfhypnosis and retrieve the name of that little restaurant? Please?
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