DC Coast

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Steve

Just back from our anniversary dinner and thought I would offer a review of our excellent meal.

The wine was red and came in a bottle with a cork and cost half as much as all the food. For starters we shared a stuffed fried pepper ("chili relleno" apparently is not the same as "chili") and a coaster-sized mushroom cap with a fried duck egg on top. For the main dish I had tuna, which was thick and pink in the middle and covered with some yellow sauce and some kind of bean that looked like small corn all around. The lady had halibut, or maybe it was sea bass, which had some pieces of potato thrown in, and some other sauce. For dessert we had cheesecake sprinkled liberally (too liberally, if you ask me) with "masticated cherries." I'm pretty sure that's how the menu described them. That's certainly how they looked. At the end of the evening we were presented with two delectable wafers of pure minty sugar, each dipped in a bit of nicely complementing chocolate.
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Posted by Tony P. | December 21, 2007 | 11:12:20

Come on, Steve, I would have expected better from a fluent speaker of Spanish like you :) But maybe the blame goes to the East Coasters who can't spell -- "chil<b>e</b> relleno" literally means stuffed pepper in Spanish (Mexican Spanish, at least). It's infuriating, but almost all restaurants here in the East conflate "chile" and "chili."

Sounds like you enjoyed the meal, though your post does not make it obvious, exactly :) DC Coast is one of my favorites -- I haven't been able to eat soft shell crab anywhere else since I've had it there (at an anniverasry dinner, as it happens).

Cheers!
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Posted by Steve | December 21, 2007 | 11:50:32

It was a great meal, qualitatively (if not quantitatively) far better than Wendy's.

(This is an in-joke for the Phillips brothers: Eric asserts that a great meal should be at least as many times better than Wendy's as it is more expensive than Wendy's.)
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Posted by Eric Phillips | December 21, 2007 | 12:33:11

My restaurant theory has undergone a little evolution since then. I now allow for an additional variable that for the sake of simplicity we may call "scarcity."
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Posted by beowulf | December 22, 2007 | 10:29:30

Living in the sticks, as I do, I have view occasions for fine dining, but Shannon and I ventured into the big city a few weeks back to see Avenue Q at the National Theater.

Beforehand we ate at this very nice Indian restaurant on I Street. The complimentary champagne brunch was about $22.00/person but when you ate it you knew where that extra money went.
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Posted by Steve | July 14, 2008 | 08:59:05

Turns out those cherries were "mascerated." Picked that word up on Food Network this weekend. Doesn't sound much more appetizing.
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