Bob and Edith's? It's cool to go there at 4AM and meet the weirdos, but the food is just standard diner fare. Good, but not exactly revolutionary. That's all I want for breakfast usually, but it seems like a strange thing to have a competition over.

Five Guys is great, but my personal favorite for takeout is Crisp N Juicy in Arlington.

The Diner for brunch? Yes, they serve it, but the food there is just minimally glorified and maximally overpriced diner fare. The drinks do tend to be strong though.

Cheap eats: Ben's is awesome, but the menu is, I think, rather limited for this kind of prize. A+J's should be much higher on the list, and an Ethiopian place needs to be there as well: Harabe (while technically Eritrean) is dirt cheap and really good.

Chinese: Notably missing is A+J's (my pick for hands down best in region), as well as Chinatown Express (another facorite of mine), and Seven Seas, which is excellent.

Comfort food: never been to Georgia Browns, but this is otherwise Ben's territory.

Healthy: Bossa's food is underwhelming and the service is reliably the worst in town. Why is it on the list? I've not been in a decade or so, but I've heard from more than a few that Nora has gotten fairly boring of late. Health bar is mediocre at best. Pesce is very good, although I'm not sure about 'health food.'

Italian: something beat Galileo and it's not Obelisk. Puh-leez. And where's Anna Maria's?

Mexican: Start with the obvious: Lauriol Plaza is and has always been overpriced, low-quality crap, inexplicably adored by the Post. Mixtec is phenominal, and only barely makes the cut.

Pizza: to my mind, there are only two pizza places in DC. Both made the list, but should have been one and two (respectively): Vace and 2Amys. 2Amys so exceeds its ancestor, Paradiso, it's kinda embarrassing.

Cheap Drinks: How Polly Esther's can be on any "best of" list besides "best place to tell people you don't like to go when they visit DC," I will never know.

Sushi: Cafe Asia is good, but the sushi has never been the highlight of their menu. And my real favourite isn't on the list at all: Tako Grill in Bethesda (you'd be amazed!).

I suppose I shouldn't be annoyed that the suburban restaurants were thrown in. Most of the AOLers are probably out in the 'burbs.

Zayatina is fantastic but how badly are you eating if mezza is health food?

If McCormick and Schmick and Phillips are the two best places to eat seafood in DC then I'd rather lick the storm drains at Maine ave. The fish is always overcooked underflavored and god forbid you order shellfish. How do they even compare to the fish market?

and out of morbid curiosity why is only the 'burban Murky mentioned and Sparky's barely hanging onto the list? Who was voting on this list that Love Cafe was a worse coffeehouse than Jolt N Bolt? I demand names!

But all is forgiven because they liked Jimmy T's.