Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!lll-lcc!ptsfa!hoptoad!gnu From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Good restaurants around DC while you're at Usenix Message-ID: <1609@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Sat, 3-Jan-87 03:54:31 EST Article-I.D.: hoptoad.1609 Posted: Sat Jan 3 03:54:31 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Jan-87 09:38:11 EST References: <490@unc.unc.UUCP> Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 40 I want to remind people to post restaurant recommendations for the Washington, DC area so we can enjoy them while visiting at Usenix. I'll start off with two. The best restaurant I know of in the world is in Bethesda, MD, a short walk from the Bethesda subway stop, which is a few stops north from the Usenix hotel. It's called the Pines of Rome and it's on Hampden Lane, a little street just off Wisconsin Avenue at the Sovrain Bank building. The food is moderately expensive (I seem to recall about $15 for entrees) and it's worth every penny. They specialize in seafood as well as pasta dishes and close to the best pizza I've ever had. (The pizza is so good that you should order it with one, MAX two, ingredient -- so you can taste the pizza, not the toppings.) Try *all* the appetizers -- white pizza, beans in great sauce, fried mushrooms, fried bell peppers -- unlike any you've had. They don't require that you dress up. I used to work in the building across the street, and ate there at least once a week. I didn't know how good I had it until I moved away. A good friend says he has found a Creole restaurant in Louisiana that's better than the Pines, but I haven't been there so I can't credit the story. The other is a hole in the wall Indian restaurant. A diner. Wobbly Formica tables, and you go up to the cash register to order and carry the food back yourself. But it has great Indian food and it's very cheap -- I think about $5/person. I don't recall the name of the restaurant, but it's on the south side of S street just east of Connecticut Avenue (north of Dupont Circle). To get there from Usenix you'd just go south on Connecticut Ave about 25 blocks, or take the subway to Dupont Circle, walk north on Conn., and go right on S. I lived a few blocks from this place many years ago; and I re-located it last summer. It's still good. Maybe a local can post its name. See you there!!! PS: The National Zoo is a short walk north from the Usenix hotel. It's a "good zoo" as I rate zoos. -- John Gilmore {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@ingres.berkeley.edu I forsee a day when there are two kinds of C compilers: standard ones and useful ones ... just like Pascal and Fortran. Are we making progress yet? -- ASC:GUTHERY%slb-test.csnet