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How about Metro Center area? Farragut Square? McPherson Square? Anything along K Street? L'Enfant Square? Federal Triangle?
Just blocky 10 floor office buildings everywhere, filled with grey-suited bureaucrats. I admit it's a bit of an exaggeration, but not a huge one.
Even the neighborhoods have a bit of that. Georgetown, Adams Morgan, Cleveland Park, etc. They look nice, though feel transient and preppy and chain-oriented. Endless Chipotles feeding fresh-faced interns.
Yeh but those are not neighborhoods per se that you first mentioned.They are business areas with a residential component, not residential areas with some businesses.I do see what you are saying though.
To me thats just what most cities are.Every city has areas that are more sterile than others.They also have areas that are very unique
I guess we'd have to agree to disagree about G'Town,Adams Morgan and not familiar with Cleveland Park.
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Some of those neighborhoods looks like it could very easily be Atlanta.The architecture of some of the houses are different.Very Midwesyern but some of the Victorian style homes of coure you see everywhere.
That's because areas such as Lakeview, Ravenswood in Chicago as well as Inman Park/Grant Park in Atlanta that all have numerous victorian's mixed in were ALL originally suburbs so have that look to them, they just happen to be in city limits now.
Yeh but those are not neighborhoods per se that you first mentioned.They are business areas with a residential component, not residential areas with some businesses.I do see what you are saying though.
To me thats just what most cities are.Every city has areas that are more sterile than others.They also have areas that are very unique
I guess we'd have to agree to disagree about G'Town,Adams Morgan and not familiar with Cleveland Park.
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I think DC has more strictly government area's with absence of mixed in ground level retail than does say Chicago, might be wrong though, that is the general impression I get.
How about Metro Center area? Farragut Square? McPherson Square? Anything along K Street? L'Enfant Square? Federal Triangle?
Just blocky 10 floor office buildings everywhere, filled with grey-suited bureaucrats. I admit it's a bit of an exaggeration, but not a huge one.
Even the neighborhoods have a bit of that. Georgetown, Adams Morgan, Cleveland Park, etc. They look nice, though feel transient and preppy and chain-oriented. Endless Chipotles feeding fresh-faced interns.
People eat at Chipotle everywhere. That's not a DC thing.
I guess DC doesn't do well in local, low-key, quick food. That's probably a reason for the popularity of Chipotle. It's also the case of interns being lazy. That said, there's not much of an excuse for eating Chipotle in Adams Morgan or even Georgetown. These aren't even areas where interns tend to eat since it's not near their homes or work.
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I guess we'd have to agree to disagree about G'Town,Adams Morgan and not familiar with Cleveland Park.
Cleveland Park has some really good restaurants and a lot of chains. It looks bland and generic, but there are some good dining options (Palena, Pete's Apizza, Comet) are in the so-called generic areas of Cleveland Park, Friendship Heights, and Chevy Chase. You don't have to eat at Chipotle in these areas, but you may end up doing it for time/money-related reasons.
How about Metro Center area? Farragut Square? McPherson Square? Anything along K Street? L'Enfant Square? Federal Triangle?
Just blocky 10 floor office buildings everywhere, filled with grey-suited bureaucrats. I admit it's a bit of an exaggeration, but not a huge one.
Even the neighborhoods have a bit of that. Georgetown, Adams Morgan, Cleveland Park, etc. They look nice, though feel transient and preppy and chain-oriented. Endless Chipotles feeding fresh-faced interns.
Uh, I think that's kind of my point. Formulaic "chef-driven restuarants" in the base of office buildings is exactly is what I'm referring to. DC is extremely corporate.
How about Metro Center area? Farragut Square? McPherson Square? Anything along K Street? L'Enfant Square? Federal Triangle?
Just blocky 10 floor office buildings everywhere, filled with grey-suited bureaucrats. I admit it's a bit of an exaggeration, but not a huge one.
Even the neighborhoods have a bit of that. Georgetown, Adams Morgan, Cleveland Park, etc. They look nice, though feel transient and preppy and chain-oriented. Endless Chipotles feeding fresh-faced interns.
And Georgetown and Adams Morgan being full of Chipotles? Have you ever been to D.C. before? I could do this for Adams Morgan or Cleveland Park, but I will just post Georgetown restaurant options so people can sift through your lies.
Uh, I think that's kind of my point. Formulaic "chef-driven restuarants" in the base of office buildings is exactly is what I'm referring to. DC is extremely corporate.
Since when has a chef driven restaurant been corporate? Where do people in Chicago eat? I wonder if D.C. being the fittest city in America has anything to do with our restaurants being chef driven thus healthier.
Yes, D.C. is more educated than Chicago and people are more likely to be higher class than Chicago, but D.C. also has a completely different side of the city you have not mentioned that is more similar to what the city of Chicago is like. Have you been to the other parts of D.C. outside the core in S.E. across the river for instance?
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And Georgetown and Adams Morgan being full of Chipotles? Have you ever been to D.C. before?
No offense, but most of those resturants are just what I'm talking about. Five Guys, Pinkberry, Paper Moon. Formulaic, "concept-driven" restaurants. Places like Clydes or Old Glory. Ye olde style saloons (trademarked, of course), "fast casual marketplaces", that sort of thing.
You just know there's a marketing team behind the whole thing, which is fine, but lends itself to a sterile environment sometimes.
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