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Review: Adour’s Macarons-a-Porter

July 28, 2010

*** UPDATE: Salon.com makes mention of macarons being the “heirs apparent to the cupcake” in their article on food fads*** Macarons are defined from wikipedia as The word macaroon is applied to a variety of light, baked confections, described as either small cakes or meringue-like cookies depending on their consistency. The original macaroon was a [...]

Posted in Food, Review | Also tagged adour washington dc, butter cream, confection, cupcake, dessert, eggshell, food trend, french, froyo, frozen yogurt, ganache, jam, macarons, macaroons, pistachio, raspberry | 3 Responses

DC Food 2010: My Take

April 23, 2010

DC food is tricky. I find that the word-of-mouth for new restaurants tends to die out after only a couple weeks. this makes it hard to find what’s new and what’s good. So as a result, I don’t go out to eat in DC very often. When I do, it usually is because I happen to be in DC already and go eat after work. also, whenever restaurant week opens up, my eyes grow wide as my friends and I settle on a restaurant to try. So far, these are the restaurants that have stood out for me:

La Taberna del Alabardero
1789
Hook
Marrakesh
DC Coast

These are restaurants I’d be more than happy to go to again because they serve solidly good food. I don’t think DC lacks in good food at all, and thankfully it is being recognized. We have peruvian chicken featured on Anthony Bourdain’s no reservations, Chef Jose Andres has several landmark restaurants and a cable tv show , and DC favorite Georgetown Cupcake owners are getting their own reality tv show.

Obviously, we appreciate good food.

We also have some standout people that are doing incredible things, like the woman who cooked through every recipe in the french laundry cookbook who is now tackling the alinea cookbook. Alain Ducasse has chosen DC as the city to open his new restaurant Adour, located in the St. Regis Hotel. Some chefs are taking the lead on bringing food trends to DC, like Jose Andres with Mini Bar, Liberty Tavern restaurant group with their high end coffee and wine bar North Side Social, and Chef Yasu has brought some unbelievable Japanese sushi and cuisine to Vienna, VA at Sushi Yoshi.

So what do I have to complain about then? We have big names making great food. We have people willing to pay for that great food. What are we missing?

Posted in Food | Also tagged 1789, adour, alinea, anthony bourdain, bake shop, baked and wired, bershire pork, blogs, cookbook, cooking, cupcake, dc, dc coast, diffusion of ideas curve, eater.com, french laundry, fro-yo, frozen yogurt, georgetown cupcake, hello cupcake, hook, iceberry, ippudo, japanese cuisine, jose andres, katsu, la taberna del alabardero, lazy sunday, magnolia bakery, marrakesh, mini bar, momofuku, mr yogato, no reservations, noodle bar, north side social, peruvian chicken, pink berry, rai rai ken, ramen, red mango, red velvet, restaurants, soba-ya, st regis hotel, sushi yama, sushi yoshi, tangysweet, trend, vienna, when harry met sally, yogen fruz, yogiberry | 4 Responses

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Review: Adour’s Macarons-a-Porter

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