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March 29, 2005


DCFUD Grades DC

Humans are hierarchical animals. Get on a crowded elevator and wonder who you could take. Judge an entire corporate board meeting in terms of who has the coolest hair.

Well far be it from FUD to go against Human Nature. For the next two weeks, we will be presenting the first ever

DCFUD Grades DC

We shall classify, pigeonhole, grade, rank, and rate this city till it can't be rated no more. But we cannot be supercilious alone. We need you to submit your nominations in the comments below or to dcfud.writers@gmail.com. Have another category to suggest? Suggest it.

Categories:

  1. Best Place to Be a Local

  2. Best Bakery to Break a Diet

  3. Best Coffee Shop to Tell Your Boss You’re “Telecommuting” From

  4. Best Place to Wear Silly Hipster Clothing

  5. Prettiest Restaurant

  6. Best Reason to boast about of your Southern Heritage

  7. Best Reason to boast about your non-American Heritage

  8. Grooviest Waitstaff

  9. Best Bathroom

  10. Best Excuse to Go to the Suburbs

  11. Best Corporate Lunch Break

  12. Best Expense Account Dinner

  13. Best Morning-After Hangover Food

  14. Best Pretentious Yuppie Fusion Food

  15. Best Small Meal for Less Than the Cost of a Metro Check

Posted by zaf at March 29, 2005 11:11 AM

 

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1)Murphy's of DC
3 and 4)Soho tea and Coffee
5)Ten Penh
6)Lefties barbeque
7) Lebenese Taverna
9)Ceiba
10) Broadway Diner
11)Bread Line or that greek place in Faragut North
15)Amsterdam Falafel Shop

pardon the spelling

Posted by: zaf at March 29, 2005 11:28 AM

1) Bardia's New Orleans Cafe
2) Cakelove
3) Tryst
6) Lefty's BBQ
8) The Diner
10) New Fortune Dim Sum
11) Greek Deli
12) DC Coast
13) Bardia's New Orleans Cafe
15) Pizza Mart

Posted by: Amg at March 29, 2005 12:39 PM

3. SoHo, or perhaps Steam.

9. Definitely the Health Bar on U Street. It changes colors in a trippy sort of way. And, it has a motion sensor on the door so that it doesn't waste water all day.

12. Capitol Grille or Old Ebitt's.

15. Amsterdam Falafel, absolutely.

Posted by: hudson at March 29, 2005 12:41 PM

1. Five Guys
2. CakeLove
3. Soho Tea and Coffee
4. *Anywhere* in Adams Morgan. And Mei n Yu.
5. Cieba
6. Maryland IS south of the Mason-Dixon, dammit! (And Georgia Brown's.)
7. N/A (But I claim no responsibility for W.)
8. Cafe Luna
9. Zola
10. Grapeseed
11. Lafayette Room at the Hay-Adams Hotel
12. Bombay Club
13. American City Diner
15. I second Pizza Mart

Posted by: Trapped Urbanite at March 29, 2005 2:10 PM

silly hipster clothing should be worn everywhere!

Posted by: nm at March 29, 2005 3:07 PM

wait, by silly hipster clothing do you mean fun, goofy clothes or trendy new york wanna be club-hopping clothes?

Posted by: nm at March 29, 2005 3:11 PM

hmm...lets say fun goofy clothes specifically worn so other people can see how cool you look. New York wannabe club hopping clothes may fall more into the 'rediculous' category.

Posted by: zaf at March 29, 2005 4:37 PM

# Best Place to Be a Local
New York City

# Best Bakery to Break a Diet
Firehook. Mmmm, brownies.

# Best Coffee Shop to Tell Your Boss You're "Telecommuting" From
Camelot.

# Best Place to Wear Silly Hipster Clothing
Wonderland

# Prettiest Restaurant
Ortanique, once you get inside

# Best Reason to boast about of your Southern Heritage
Your people run the country

# Best Reason to boast about your non-American Heritage
You won't get drafted

# Grooviest Waitstaff
Brickskeller ("sorry, we're all out of beer, but let me jiggle for you")

# Best Bathroom
Air Force One

# Best Excuse to Go to the Suburbs
Jumping off the Wilson Bridge/Joe's Noodles

# Best Corporate Lunch Break
Breadline

# Best Expense Account Dinner
The Palm

# Best Morning-After Hangover Food
Mimosas and eggs at Kramerbooks

# Best Pretentious Yuppie Fusion Food
TenPenh

# Best Small Meal for Less Than the Cost of a Metro Check
Patty & Ice Cream at York Castle in Silver Spring.

Posted by: rj3 at March 30, 2005 11:36 AM

1- Charlton Heston Mode: Back where you came from you damn dirty transplants!
or Zacks. no hill rats, no commuters.
2- Cakelove. You remember that Eclair from the simpsons? "eet haz wahn meelyon cahlorees"
3- Queens Cafe. No internet access but hell if you're lying already you might as well get a pipe and watch the enormous TV.
4- New York City
5- Honestly, I don't look from the plate much.
6- Maine Avenue. Momma raised us on corn, crabs, and whuppins.
7- Harambe. They melted my tongue.
8- Zacks again. Feed me beers while I wait on pitchers. Love 'em.
9- Citron (I'm pretty sure, it's a little foggy). The upstairs one has this sink...
10- gunpoint?
11- Ya'll take lunch? You must be lobbyists.
12- MontMarte. Oh my poor smoking credit card.
13- Jimmy T's! Big dudes flirting and serving breakfast.
14- Belgian Fruit Beers.
15- Halfsmoke with saurkraut and mustard. Did you mean metro fare or metro check?

-W

Posted by: W at March 30, 2005 4:37 PM

As a resident Baltimorean, I feel compelled to respond for my hometown.Hence...
1.Amicci’s/ Faidley’s at Lexington Market
2.Vaccaro’s (all Italian desserts)
3.One World Café (the coffee is terrible, but the muffins are good)
4.XS, Sasha’s or X…. (pronounced, for unknown reasons, as Ick-see-ah)
5.Egyptian Pizza Kitchen or Paper Moon
6.Pete’s
7.Helmud’s (Afghan cuisine)
8.the coffee shop across from Patterson Park
9.One World Café (you can read all the graffiti on the wall!)
10.to be honest, Trader Joe’s
11.Joy America, in the Museum of Visionary Art
12.Saffron
13.Pete’s again
14.XS
15.Lexington Market

Posted by: Laura at March 30, 2005 9:45 PM

1. Pumpernickel's (on Connecticut)
2. Marvelous Market
3. n/a
4. anywhere near the Black Cat
5.
6. Georgia Brown's
7. Pharmacy Bar (A. Morgan)
8.
9. Charlie Palmer Steak
10. Addie's (Rockville)
11. Charlie Palmer Steak
12. Tosca
13. McDs (bacon egg and cheese biscuit, hash browns with bbq sauce, and a coke)
14. Ceiba
15. Happy hour mini-burgers at Fado (like McDonald's cheeseburgers but pretty good and dirt cheap at happy hr).

Posted by: Marvkus at April 12, 2005 12:30 PM

1- amsterdam falafel--you get free juice
2- cakelove
3- boyfriends apt for some "lunch"
4- need to do a five guys shout out so sure wear it to five guys
5- zatinya
6- g browns is not good southern food. drive down and out in va and go to aunt sarahs on 95
7- pepitos tacos
8- hamburger marys again .. i love those boys
9-i feel like this is really incriminating to answer...
10-roys in gaithersberg (PLEASE tell me youve been)
11- heritage india
12- charlie palmers
13- hamburger marys mmm...bloody marys
14- thaiphoon
15- again have to go w falalfel (split the fries)

Posted by: anne at April 19, 2005 3:40 PM

1. Florida Ave Grill
2. Patisserie Poupon
3. My apartment. I like my coffee.
4. Food For Thought
5. Palette
6. Rockland's
7. Meskerem or Pho 75
8. Common Grounds (now Murky)
9. Mie N Yu
10. The Tasting Room in Frederick, MD
11. Les Halles
12. Cashion's
13. The Diner
14. Ceiba
15. Julia's Empanadas

Posted by: Valaer at April 21, 2005 1:23 PM

 

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