Most vibrant urban core (outside the big 6)? (live, best, better)
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I don't get what you mean by this at all. I don't know anybody who thinks D.C. in 2014 has a bad food scene. You guys need to step into 2014. D.C. is a very different city. You guys are so out of touch. Is D.C. on the level NYC, LA, or San Fran? No, but how many cities are in the world? We just got on the scene. We were still the murder capital in 2002 FYI. Give us time. We spent our days prior to 2008 with Detriot, Memphis, and Baltimore scaping the gutter.
The food scene is not good, man. The high end options range from pretty good to outrageously bad. The in-between options range from mediocre to terrible. There is really no cheap food in DC, unless you consider Burger King cheap "eats."
Union Market, for example, has a Korean BBQ taco stand run by 3 or 4 yuppie/hipster white guys from who knows where. It's terrible. Communion wafers have more flavor.
The pizza is god-awful. New York pizza is definitely overrated, imo, but DC is the one city that just completely effs pizza up.
Eating a sandwich from Taylor will make the roof of your mouth bleed. And their sandwiches are hella expensive with stupid names like the "Broad Street Bully" in a lame effort to play off of Philly's street cred.
Yeah, it's pretty bad. And the sad part is that you don't know it's bad until you go somewhere else and realize "Hey, our food is pretty bad." The best thing DC had going for it was the fish sandwiches down at Captain White's.
However, the Maryland and Virginia suburbs have far superior food options. That's where all of the immigrants are forced to set up shop due to DC's high COL.
Doesn't Philly have a Little Saigon neighborhood? And if it does, is that the one in the link?
Yes this is the area - loaded with good Pho - also right next to a pretty good Mexican enclave with really good authentic Mexican next to some old and good Italian and then right to next to this which was just rated one of the ten best foodie streets in america
Not bad for a place most say has nothing outside the core
The food scene is not good, man. The high end options range from pretty good to outrageously bad. The in-between options range from mediocre to terrible. There is really no cheap food in DC, unless you consider Burger King cheap "eats."
Union Market, for example, has a Korean BBQ taco stand run by 3 or 4 yuppie/hipster white guys from who knows where. It's terrible. Communion wafers have more flavor.
The pizza is god-awful. New York pizza is definitely overrated, imo, but DC is the one city that just completely effs pizza up.
Eating a sandwich from Taylor will make the roof of your mouth bleed. And their sandwiches are hella expensive with stupid names like the "Broad Street Bully" in a lame effort to play off of Philly's street cred.
Yeah, it's pretty bad. And the sad part is that you don't know it's bad until you go somewhere else and realize "Hey, our food is pretty bad." The best thing DC had going for it was the fish sandwiches down at Captain White's.
I won't even address nightlife.
Ha one of the hottest restaurants in DC right now is a poor man's knock off of Parc from Philly - Steven Starr is adding Philly already done themes to DC now
though I guess this is nothing new; NYC and Miami have been importing Starr place for years now - a few have been movies actually and pawned off as NYC when the originals are in Philly
The food scene is not good, man. The high end options range from pretty good to outrageously bad. The in-between options range from mediocre to terrible. There is really no cheap food in DC, unless you consider Burger King cheap "eats."
Union Market, for example, has a Korean BBQ taco stand run by 3 or 4 yuppie/hipster white guys from who knows where. It's terrible. Communion wafers have more flavor.
The pizza is god-awful. New York pizza is definitely overrated, imo, but DC is the one city that just completely effs pizza up.
Eating a sandwich from Taylor will make the roof of your mouth bleed. And their sandwiches are hella expensive with stupid names like the "Broad Street Bully" in a lame effort to play off of Philly's street cred.
Yeah, it's pretty bad. And the sad part is that you don't know it's bad until you go somewhere else and realize "Hey, our food is pretty bad." The best thing DC had going for it was the fish sandwiches down at Captain White's.
I don't get what you mean by this at all. I don't know anybody who thinks D.C. in 2014 has a bad food scene. You guys need to step into 2014. D.C. is a very different city. You guys are so out of touch. Is D.C. on the level NYC, LA, or San Fran? No, but how many cities are in the world? We just got on the scene. We were still the murder capital in 2002 FYI. Give us time. We spent our days prior to 2008 with Detriot, Memphis, and Baltimore scaping the gutter.
While DC had a high murder rate, as recently as the mid-00's, I sure it's always been a more white-collard city than Memphis, Detroit, and B'more.
While DC had a high murder rate, as recently as the mid-00's, I sure it's always been a more white-collard city than Memphis, Detroit, and B'more.
It had a higher murder rate than all three in 2002, though. Part of it was rather white-collar, another was not so much. I can't think of any major city in the US that recorded a murder rate (about 80 per 100k) as high as DC did in the early 90s.
Ha one of the hottest restaurants in DC right now is a poor man's knock off of Parc from Philly - Steven Starr is adding Philly already done themes to DC now
though I guess this is nothing new; NYC and Miami have been importing Starr place for years now - a few have been movies actually and pawned off as NYC when the originals are in Philly
Many say Le Diplomate is better than Parc by a wide margin. Don't shoot the messenger. Steven star said Philly is a discount restaurant city. It's not a place to get rich because they can't support it in his interview.
Last edited by MDAllstar; 04-08-2014 at 10:45 PM..
Wasn't Bajan just saying how great DC nightlife was? A quick search for his name and nightlife in DC and you will see he is blowing smoke. Who is this guy? You never know who is going to show up.
Nightlife in DC is okay. Not bad but nothing special really. The only thing I love is the fact that DC is the homebase of Thievery Corporation, but other than that what I've done was mediocre compared to some of the other large cities like NYC, Chicago, and LA (and also Miami and Vegas).
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